Facts about Arts in Education

The arts involve students in the process of their learning, demanding constant reflection and active participation.
The arts enable students to collaborate toward a common purpose.
The arts are a powerful connecting force between disciplines.
As our world and problems become more complex, creative thinking becomes all the more important.
The arts are pleasure. Work in the arts can often be painful in its constant personal inquiry, frustrating in the difficulties of mastery and interpretation, and exhausting in execution.
The arts ask questions for which there are no right answers.
Schools must be places where students are learning how to learn as a lifelong adventure.
A degree in the arts requires more time than perhaps any other discipline.

Systems of Study & Reasoning Skills Developed

Language: Literal and symbolic
Science: Quantitative and symbolic
Arts: Sensory and symbolic

Core Competencies Developed

Aesthetics:

An appreciation for a range of cultural expression, including art, music, dance, theater, literature, and film.

Creative Thinking:

The ability to generate useful and original ideas.

Critical Thinking:

The ability to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate a spectrum of ideas that are represented by theories, images, and concepts.

Goal Attainment:

The ability to achieve one's personal, educational, and career goals.