A Case for Arts Education

Should we be educating children without involving them in those activities that may define their time and place in history?

Arts Education and Christian Education

Religious arts are evidenced by architecture, paintings, drawings, sculptures, liturgical music, costumes, symbolic artifacts, floor/wall coverings, landscaping, illustrated manuscripts, sacred literature, and dance.

Arts Education as a Steward of Culture

Culture is like an iceberg—about one-seventh visible. The visible part is sometimes best discernable through the lens of the literary, performing, and visual arts.

Arts Education as a Channel to Self-Esteem

Self-concept of at-risk students participating in an arts program increases. The arts program included music, movement, dramatics, and art.

Arts Education’s Impact on the Capacity to Learn and the Ability to Achieve

College Board identified the arts as one of the six basic academic subjects.

SAT scores increased for students with arts coursework.

Art Education’s Compatibility to Multiple Intelligences &

Multiple Literacies

Who— Student (individual)

What— Bloom (taxonomy)

Where— Gardner (the intelligences)

How— Costa (the characteristics)

Arts Education & Aesthetics

Places of learning are not just physical: they are cultural, spiritual, social, and esthetic. Schooling should provide a continuity of experiences that encourages flexible thinkers to make connections.

Fostering Critical & Creative Thinking & Writing Skills

The arts are shown to enhance higher-level thinking, enhance communications & writing skills, prove reading by remedial readers, improve attendance, and increase achievement in language & math.

Multidisciplinary Integration and Effect

Chemistry & Art

Piano Keyboard Training with Math Software

Reading Improvement Through Art

Academic Arts

Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Framework

Pennsylvania Process Adoption

Discipline Based Art Education

Literary, Performing, & Visual Arts Supplemental Curricula Resources

2 arts teachers per public school

.087 art teacher per private Catholic school

0.52 art teacher per private non-Catholic school

Individual Lifelong Benefits from Arts Education

Treating stroke patients

Music Makes Me Healthy

New Horizons International Music Association

Benefits of the art to humanity

• Our cultural legacy

• Multiple ways & means of communicating

• Release imagination for creative thinking

• Connected with life lessons that provide a

foundation for respectable citizenship