Calvin College professor: 18 reasons to save art education in elementary schools — from mlive.com by Jo-Ann VanReeuwyk
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Jo-Ann VanReeuwyk holds a piece of art she created called “Sheath, ”
which she made from grapevine and is displaying during a
Calvin Symposium on Worship in 2010.
Paul Newby II | MLive.com
From DSC:
A valuable list of contributions that we receive/experience from the arts!!! Here are 5 of them:
- To participate in the arts is to be fully human.
- Art is a way of knowing and a form of communication.
- The arts teach problem-solving, risk-taking, creative thinking, collaborative thinking, innovative thinking. Indeed all of the higher level thinking skills.
- Art helps form multiple perspectives. It gives voice. It helps us identify and express issues that are global, common to all people groups.
- The arts emphasize value.
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