Art education

As a student who has been in the education system for a long time there is plenty of holes in the system. A college education should come with the necessary skills not to only prosper into what you want to pursue but to also have the skills to be able to go into other disciplines and careers. The first thing to realize about school is that no matter what majora student decides he or she is going to choose as their discipline it won’t be what decide what job or career they are…

opportunities for success within the field of art and art education? How does emphasis placed on early-life course development neglect late stage? What does it mean to be creative later in life? How are current models and tests of creativity inadequate in assessing older adults? How can art practice be a vehicle for coping with and adapting to these age related losses in physical, mental, material, and social assets? The President 's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities released a report…

A liberal arts education is a form of education that makes a student have more familiarity with issues other than their major. This makes a student have an impeccable performance in the marketplace that most do not have. It helps assist students to have expertise on topics that range countless subjects. The education that student’s comprehend in four years is extraordinary, they go into society having a little more knowledge than the mediocre college graduate. Liberal art universities put…

Should Fine Arts Courses be a Necessary Part of Student’s Education? (The Debate of Required Fine Arts Courses for a Student’s Proper Education) In America, it is debated that art, dance, and music should be a part of a student’s education. The people who argue that fine arts should be a part of a student’s education think that the student would benefit from it because these studies would improve the student’s creativity and thinking, which could make them better at their other core classes.…

Inquiry Project The question that I decided to monitor my feelings about during this term was: Are standards in language arts education necessary why or why not? Set standards in language arts education is a popular belief in most western education communities. Originally, I believed that it was necessary to have set standards in language arts education, so that every student in a certain place, for example British Columbia, would learn the same thing in a certain grade. I also thought it was…

The arts are all around us and most of people enjoy what they add to his or her life but do they realize what it does for their brain? Education in the arts is an integral part of development and socialization of children but is often relegated to the sidelines. This is especially true when schools are pressed on funds and having to perform for testing that focuses on the science and math side of education. This should not be the case. The arts develop the brain intellectually and emotionally,…

underrepresented styles of education into the limelight, making our society aware of educational topics they might have been blind to otherwise. Whether or not these reforms made it the conventional way to the congressional level, where law can mandate educational reform, many of them have still had a serious effect on the way students are being taught today. Black studies has seen a course of heavy reform and triumph. Johnnetta B. Cole explains in her piece, Black Studies in Liberal Arts…

achievement in the United States (U.S.) education system, Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were designed to create clear and consistent benchmarks to ensure that all learners, regardless of where they live, graduate with the identified 21st-Century Skills needed to succeed in a global community ("About the Standards | Common Core State Standards Initiative", 2016). According to the CCSS site (2016), as of August 2015, 42 states, the Department of Defense Education Activity, the District of…

Arts Students in colleges or universities have complained that why they have to take music apprieciation or art apprieciation if they are majoring in biology or law. According to Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education by Yo-Yo Ma, “The value behind arts integration-collaboration, flexible thinking, and disciplined imagination- lead to the capacity to innovate” (Ma 258). In today society people live in a world where art is all around them, but they don’t know it. This is why universities…

Is there still place for liberal art education in Post-Secondary Education, or should Colleges and Universities concentrate on workforce training majors? “Change is a double-edged sword. Its relentless pace these days runs us off our feet. Yet when things are unsettled, we can find new ways to move ahead and to create breakthroughs not possible in stagnant societies. If you ask people to brainstorm words to describe change, they come up with a mixture of negative and positive terms. On the…