Young Children and the
Arts: Making Creative Connections-
A Report of the Task Force
on Children's Learning and the Arts.
This research study contains
info on the importance of art in a child's life
from birth to age eight. It focuses on three areas:
The Child, The Arts Experience, The Learning Environment
and Adult Interactions. The study gives recommendations
for each focus area which is reffered to as Guiding
Principals in Action. The study reccomends different
activities for each of the focus groups to improve
art on all levels. Finally the study includes
charts that breakdown the stages of a child through
his first eight years and gives recommendations
and examples of activiteis that should be prformed
at each age. MORE on
this Study.
The Arts at the Heart
of Learning- Harriet
Mayor Fulbright
This Article is by the
president of the Center for Arts in Basic Curriculum.
The article stresses the importance of how art
instruction must be implemented into the heart
of Curriculum in the schools of the world. It
is a short article that poses powereful questions
with enormous implications. MORE
on this Article.
Teaching the Arts in
2000: The Missing Link in General Education-
Robert Beeching
This article discusses
the history of art and how now more than ever
art should be apart of everyone's life. Art education
is no longer for just the upper class of society.
He discusses the importance that art plays in
problem solving and how it should be a part of
a child's life at a very young age. He concludes
with stresseing the importance of quality art
over quantity and the role it plays in making
us human. MORE
on this Article.
Success Stories-
Crayola.com
These articles are for
art advocacy from the crayola website. Theycover
a variety of real art success stories from communities
from all around the world. These articles are
extremely helpful for showing how real life people
in real life communities are effected by the arts.
MORE
on this Article.
Champions
of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning-
Arts Education Partnership/ President's committe
on the Arts and Humanities
This five year study was
performed to examin a variety of art education
programs using diverse methodologies. The Study
looked primarily art education outside of schools
and the effects it had on "at-risk"
children. The goal was to better understand the
impact of the arts on learning, but not just on
formal education. MORE
on this Study.
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