DEVELOPMENT OF ART EDUCATION IN PRIMARY STUDENTS

1. DEVELOPMENT OF ART EDUCATION IN PRIMARY STUDENTS • Presented by KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SARNI Under CMP meeting

2. DEVELOPMENT OF ART EDUCATION IN PRIMARY STUDENTS • The arts are organized expressions of ideas, feelings and experiences in Images, in music, in language, in gesture and in movement. • They provide for sensory, emotional, intellectual and creative enrichment and contribute to the child’s holistic development. • Much of what is finest in society is developed through a variety of art forms which contribute to cultural ethos and to a sense of well - being .

3. ARTS EDUCATION The AIMS of arts education 1. To enable the child to explore, clarify and express ideas, feelings and experiences through a range of arts activities 2. to provide for aesthetic experiences and to develop aesthetic awareness in the visual arts, in music, in drama, in dance and in literature 3. to develop the child's awareness of, sensitivity to and enjoyment of visual, aural, tactile and spatial qualities in the environment

4. 4 To enable the child to develop natural abilities and potential, to acquire techniques, and to practice the skills necessary for creative expression and for joyful participation in different art forms 5. To enable the child to see and to solve problems creatively through imaginative thinking and so encourage individuality and enterprise 6. To value the child's confidence and self-esteem through valuing self- expression 7. To foster a sense of excellence in and appreciation of the arts in local, regional, national and global contexts, both past and present 8. To foster a critical appreciation of the arts for personal fulfillment and enjoyment.

5. Arts for arts sakeIn The Arts and the Creation of Mind, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows (2002) Elliot Eisner outlines ‘Ten Lessons the Arts Teach’. • The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. • The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution. • The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. • The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. • The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. • The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. • The arts teach students to think through and within a material. • The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. • The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source. • The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolises to the young what adults believe is important.

6. MORE ADVANTAGES • Arts education encompasses a range of activities in the visual arts, in music, in drama, in dance and in literature. • These activities and Experiences help the child to make sense of the world, to question, to Speculate and to find solutions to deal with feelings and to respond to Creative experience.

7. Visual arts education provides for creative and aesthetic experiences • through exploring, investigating, experimenting, inventing, designing and • making in a range of media. It promotes observation and ways of seeing • and helps the child to acquire sensitivity to the visual, spatial and tactile • world and to aesthetic experience. Visual arts education channels the • childÕs natural curiosity for educational ends: the development of • perceptual awareness helps the child to enjoy and interpret the visual

8. 1. Drawing 2. Paint and colour 3. Print 4. Clay 5. Construction 6. Fabric and fiber.

9. THE VISUAL ARTS CURRICULUM The curriculum suggests the following as accessible media for expression through which the child can explore, respond to and interpret the world visually: 1. Drawing 2. Paint and colour 3. Print 4. Clay 5. Construction 6 Fabric and fiber.

10. KvSarni Thank you