PHILOSOPHY AND OBJECTIVES OF ART EDUCATION
At the end of the lesson, you will be able to:
a.Identify the guiding philosophies and objectives of art education.
B. Reflect on the importance of art to education and teaching.
“Thus the chief purpose of art education for life is to help students
understand something about themselves and others through art and thereby
contribute to personal growth, social progress, and a sense of global
community.”
ART EDUCATION
Art education constitutes an important area of curricular activity for the
development of the wholesome personality of the learners. Art is a process of
fulfillment running through every aspect of life and it goes on in a creative,
productive and joyful manner. Art education helps to explore various means
of communication (verbal and nonverbal).
ART SUCATIONS… PHILOS 6.89 UP1 pdf
*It encourages to develop creative expression and sharpens senses through
keen observation of the environment.
*It helps to discover preferences through explanation to variety of material
and identify the personal form and style of expression.
ART EDUCATION
*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.
* It also develops aesthetic sensibilities and respect for social values and
cultural heritage.
PHILOSOPHY OF ART EDUCATIOn
We believe that:
Educators have a responsibility to foster aesthetic creativity as a counter-
balance for degrading forces.
• Art is a human need. Art expression is also a pleasing and natural
communication for children.
• Experience with an expanding range of art media will enhance the child’s
personal expression and creativity.
PHILOSOPHY OF ART EDUCATION PDF We believed that;
** *Growth in art ability comes through continuous use and training. The
child is directed toward a healthy leisure time pursuit when his artistic
perception and skill are cultivated. ***Children become more actively
concerned with the beauty and harmony of the environment when their
aesthetic sensitivities are nurtured.
OBJECTIVES OF ART EDUCATION
1. Help learners to consolidate past experiences and knowledge;
2. Introduce learners to different media and techniques and their use for
creative and productive expression for common use;
3. Provide opportunities for development of awareness about folk arts, local
specific arts and other cultural components leading to an appreciation of
national heritage;
4. 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.
5. Get acquainted with the life and work of the local artists; 6. Use
resourcefully locally available material to make different products (objects)
with the help of the community; 7. Refine the sense of appreciation of the
beauty of nature through the basic elements of art forms.
Group 2
WHAT ARE THE VALUES OF ART EDUCATION?
VALUES OF ART EDUCATIOn
• Art has a universal appeal for children. They feel attracted to it, take
pleasure in doing it, enter it eagerly, and derive satisfactions and benefits
from it.
• Arts education not only inspires and motivates students to enjoy learning.
It also supports the creative and critical thinking skills that so highly valued
in today’s situations.. VALUES OF ART EDUCATION
• Art education has several values, including aesthetic awareness, the
totality of the experience, and individuality. It strengthens individuality
through personally meaningful opportunities, individual challenge,
recognition of each child, and more. Effective methods of teaching art
education should be tailored to the learner’s needs and abilities
. THE FOLLOWING ARE THE VALUES OF ART EDUCATION: Aesthetic
Awareness
Individuality
The Totality of the Experience
Expressiveness
AESTHETIC AWARENESS-- Awareness of the qualities of art can be developed
through art education, provided that art education is based upon creative
expression.
THE TOTALITY OF THE EXPERIENCE--- The totality of the experience in art is
one of the reasons for art’s appeal to children and is also one of its unique
and important values.
INDIVIDUALITY--- Individual differencesamong children have long o and
teachers of every subjecthave been urged to provide for them.
PPEXPRESSIVENESS ---It is the ability todepict thoughts, feelings, and moods
through the language of art; the freedom to express, create or make the
shape of theforms and determine the colors; the power to state clearly and
with feeling exactly what is in the mind
RSEVERAL WAYS THROUGH WHICH INDIVIDUALITY IS STRENGTHENED BY
ART:
1. PERSONALLY MEANINGFUL OPPORTUNITIES
Creative expression gives every child the opportunity to choose the
ideas, or subject matter for his art work that is most meaningful to
him/her.
2. INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGE
Art education gives each child the maximum opportunity to develop his
own ideas to the best of his ability .
3. RECOGNITION OF EACH CHILD
Teachers use creative art work with children because they have
confidence in each student as an individual who wants to
4. INDIVIDUALITY OF WORKING SPEEDS
• Art gives every child the opportunity to work at his own speed.
5. CHILD DETERMINED TASK
The children joys the privilege and responsibility of setting the task for
himself, individualizing education for him in a very important way.
6. EMOTIONALLY PERSONAL EXPRESSION
Creative expression helps each student to face his own thoughts and
feelings.
7. DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-EVALUATION
The child learns how to evaluate hiswork as it progresses as well as
toevaluate the finished product in art.
