Benefits of Art Education for Elementary Students

Document Type:Thesis

Subject Area:English

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However, the section of art education has not been given the attention it deserves. Art education is inclusive of tangible and visual arts. In tangible arts, learners are engaged in music classes, dance, and theater while visual arts are inclusive of painting designing and drawing. According to studies, elementary students can highly benefit from art education. Elementary education provides children with an opportunity to be creative, improve their performance in education, improve their collaboration abilities and confidence, improve and develop their language, and finally enhance their visual leaning. It is therefore important that children are taught art education in a bid to improve their creativity thus their innovative abilities (Barton & Levstik, 2011). Improve education performance Research has provided that art education improves the ability of the student rasp ideas in the classroom easily thus improving their performance at school.

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When children are actively involved in art education, their concentration levels are highly improved. It has been observed that children who are not involved in art education, lack the ability to concentrate and focus on their classwork. As a result, they are not able to easily remember what they have been taught in class thus perform poorly in their school work. Children, who do not get a chance of being in an art class, have problems in working with other children in the class. Additionally, these children are not able to raise their confidence levels. However, it has been noted that children who are fortunate to be enrolled in art classes, they are encouraged to work together in groups. While in groups, every child has a chance to exchange ideas with each other hence improving their confidence levels.

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Increase in confidence levels of children allows them to participate in scholarly activities or non-education activities before adults or peers without fear. However, children in art classes, have a chance to identify the paintings and drawings in their class. Additionally, children in music and poetry classes have an opportunity to recite the words in the pieces thus the pronunciation of words is enhanced. When the pronunciation of words is eased in children as a result of participation in art, it is observed that their language develops and is improve very quickly hence they are able to express themselves easily. Enhance visual learning and cognitive abilities Studies have revealed that art education is important to the development of a child as it promotes the development of their cognitive abilities and aids in their visual learning.

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