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Importance & Objectives of Art Education

Teaching art is important for developing students' wholesome personalities and creative expression. It increases self-confidence and improves cognition. The objectives of teaching art include helping students consolidate past experiences, developing an appreciation of cultural heritage through folk and local arts, assisting students in using artistic sensibilities in daily life, and enabling balanced social growth in tune with culture. Understanding the importance and objectives of art education provides guidance for further art learning.

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Importance & Objectives of Art Education

Teaching art is important for developing students' wholesome personalities and creative expression. It increases self-confidence and improves cognition. The objectives of teaching art include helping students consolidate past experiences, developing an appreciation of cultural heritage through folk and local arts, assisting students in using artistic sensibilities in daily life, and enabling balanced social growth in tune with culture. Understanding the importance and objectives of art education provides guidance for further art learning.

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3. Write a1-page reflection on the importance and objectives of the teaching art.

Art education constitutes an important area of curricular activity for the development of
the wholesome personality of the learners. Art is a process of fulfilment running through
every aspect of life and it goes on in a creative, productive and joyful manner. Teaching
arts is important because it Increased self-confidence and self-understanding and
improved cognition are among the many reasons for teaching the arts. The arts are as
important as academics, and they should be treated that way in school curriculum.
Teaching art helps to explore various means of communication (verbal and nonverbal).
It encourages to develop creative expression and sharpens senses through keen
observation of the environment. It helps to discover preferences through exposition to
variety of material and identify the personal form and style of expression. It develops
awareness of various art forms in and around the environment and locality and
develops skills in the use of various tools, instruments and other art materials in the
process of experimentation and exploration. In the process of discovering space,
organization, colours, forms, lines, texture, movement, sound, etc., learners develop a
sense of organization and design which inculcates in them a sense of order with regard
to their personal appearance, home, school and community. It also develops aesthetic
sensibilities and respect for social values and cultural heritage. The idea of creative art
involves all the elements of commonly known art forms visual, performing and language
arts, namely music, dance, drama, drawing and painting, modelling and sculpture, or
construction work, pottery and ceramic work, poetry and creative writing and other
connected craft forms. Also if there is importance of teaching art it is also important to
have objective in teaching art like:
 Help learners to consolidate past experiences and knowledge;
 Provide opportunities for development of awareness about folk arts, local specific
arts and other cultural components leading to an appreciation of national
heritage;
 Assist learners to use artistic and aesthetic sensibility in day-to-day life situation;
 Enable learners to achieve a balanced growth as a social being in tune with our
culture through project work.
 Get acquainted with the life and work of the local artists/artistes;
 Use resourcefully locally available material to make different products (objects)
with the help of the community;
 Refine the sense of appreciation of the beauty of nature through the basic
elements of art forms.
Understanding the importance and objective of art is very important for you to have a
guide in learning more about arts.

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