{"id":66429,"date":"2019-03-07T15:08:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T20:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=66429"},"modified":"2019-03-07T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T20:08:51","slug":"using-arts-education-to-help-other-lessons-stick-klass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/03\/07\/using-arts-education-to-help-other-lessons-stick-klass\/","title":{"rendered":"Using arts education to help other lessons stick [Klass]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/04\/well\/family\/using-arts-education-to-help-other-lessons-stick.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Using arts education to help other lessons stick<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from nytimes.com by Perri Klass<br \/>\n<em>The arts can be a source of joy in a child\u2019s day, and also come in handy for memorizing times tables.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Arts education in schools has introduced many children to great painters and great music, and helped them through their first dance steps or\u00a0tentative musical endeavors. It can serve as a bright spot in the schoolchild\u2019s day or week, a class that brings in beauty, color and joy, and which is not about testing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">These subjects are\u00a0often under threat\u00a0either from budget cuts or from the inexorable demands of academic testing and \u201caccountability,\u201d but insights from neuroscience suggest that arts education can play additional important roles in how children learn.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nArts education encompasses many disciplines: \u201cI\u2019m talking about everything from music, drama, dance, design, visual arts,\u201d Dr. Sowden said. And the goal goes beyond the specific subjects, he said: \u201cYou\u2019re looking for opportunities in the arts education context to encourage children to ask questions, to use their imaginations, but also to approach their work in a systematic, disciplined way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using arts education to help other lessons stick &#8212; from nytimes.com by Perri Klass The arts can be a source of joy in a child\u2019s day, and also come in handy for memorizing times tables. Excerpts: Arts education in schools has introduced many children to great painters and great music, and helped them through their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,271,343,46,102,7,228,79,423,408,23,173,405,155,157,66,89,50,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-education","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-preferences","category-liberal-arts","category-love-of-learning","category-mediafilm","category-multimedia","category-pedagogy","category-play","category-story","category-storytelling","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66431,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66429\/revisions\/66431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}