Arts to include the fine and performing arts painting, sculpting, writing poetry, playing an instrument, singing, dancing, acting, creating mixed media productions, and film-making. Art education comprises of dance, music, drama or theater.
Each culture in the world has its type of art, and art is considered to be part of the community.
The Arab region has advanced in art education due to the education reforms and access to the arts priorities of the new national strategy.
In most innovative societies artists are considered of value and art education should have enough support.
Teaching arts and creativity in the classrooms prepares the students for life after school.
Creativity facilitates the transmission of knowledge, therefore, assisting in the preparation of students for the long-term.
Art education is beneficial to students in various ways. For instance, students are known to improve their performance in the whole curriculum when they engage in art programs.
Employers are looking for self-driven people to employ, and art programs offer such opportunities to its students
Claim
With most Arab education systems not preparing students in art education, the Arab region seems to devalue art education for its students.
Reasons
Artists possess skills needed in the job market such as observing, persisting and stretching as well as innovativeness.
Art students are highly innovative and are most useful in product development and marketing based designs.
Active arts education promotes skills in children that can make them successful in the future. Moreover, teaching arts to children promotes learning on their own, improves school attendance and sharpen the mind through critical and creative knowledge.
Evidence
Experiences in the arts offer many intrinsic and extrinsic benefits to elementary children. Intrinsic benefits include opportunities to develop creativity and imagination and to experience joy, beauty, and wonder. Arts also have extrinsic benefits such as to the development of students self-confidence, social skills, and metacognition (Upitis, 2).
Studies show that children of all abilities and social classes benefit from both out-of-school opportunities including community arts programs, informal learning in the arts, and private instruction (Upitis, 9).
Art is said to be the embodiment of human imagination, the record of human achievement and the process that distinguishes us as human beings (Terada, Jaimie, 2009).
Art keeps the students engaged as well as allow students to have fun as they learn. This type of engagement helps students develop problem-solving skills, decision-making skills improve their ability to make judgments, and moreover, helps innovation (Rostron, 229).
Solutions
Elementary teachers and arts specialists can blend roles and skills to provide exceptional arts opportunities to reach all of the children they teach.
Teachers should learn to accept and embrace art as a useful subject before they pass it on to their students.
Students explorations in the arts can be enriched through the use of web-based and other information technologies. Communications Technology (ICT) can be used by students in their creative work, and this has demonstrated increased motivation, self-regulation, pride, and inventiveness.
Conclusion
Evidently, art education is important to the world as is science and other subjects.
Art education has many benefits to students such as enhanced concentration in class and also improved understanding of other subjects
Teachers should embrace art, and this will help them teach art better to the students.
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