Art Literacy

ART LITERACY
Defined as the knowledge and understanding required

to participate authentically in the arts.
While individuals can learn about dance, media,

music, theater and visual arts through reading print
texts, artistic literacy requires that they engage in
artistic creation processes directly through the use of
materials (e.g., charcoal or paint or clay, musical
instruments) and in specific spaces (e.g., concert
halls, stages, dance rehearsal spaces, arts studios and
computer labs).
ART LITERACY
 Researchers have recognized that there are significant
benefits of arts learning and engagement in schooling.
 Arts have shown to create environments and conditions
that result in improved academic, social, and behavioral
outcomes for students, from early childhood through the
early and later years of schooling.
 However, due to the range of art forms and the diversity
and complexity of programs and research that have
been implemented, it is difficult to generalize findings
concerning the strength of the relationships between the
arts and learning .
ART LITERACY
 The flexibility of the forms comprising the arts
positions students to embody a range of literate
practices to:
 Use their mind in verbal and nonverbal ways;
 Communicate various ideas in variety of forms;
 Understand words, sounds, or images;
 Imagine new possibilities; and
 Persevere to reach goals and make them happen.
ART LITERACY
 Engaging in equality arts education experiences
provides students with an outlet for powerful creative
expression, communication, aesthetically rich
understanding, and connection to the world around
them.
 Being able to critically read, write, and speak about

art should not be the sole bases for what counts as
literacy in Arts. The cultivation of imagination and
creativity in Arts are paramount.
CHARACTERIZING
ARTISTICALLY LITERATE
INDIVIDUALS
Literature on art education and art standards in
education cited the following as common traits of
artistically literate individuals:
 Use a variety of artistic media, symbols, and
metaphors to communicate their own ideas and
respond to the artistic communication of others;
 Develop creative personal realization in at least one
art form in which they continue active involvement
as an adult;
CHARACTERIZING
ARTISTICALLY LITERATE
INDIVIDUALS
 Cultivate culture, history, and other connections
through diverse forms and genres of artworks;
 Find joy, inspiration, peace, intellectual stimulation,

and meaning when they participate in the arts; and
 Seek artistic experiences and support the arts in

their communities.
ISSUES IN TEACHING

CREATIVITY
In his famous TED Talks on creativity and innovation,
Sir Ken Robinson (Do schools kill creativity? 2006)
stressed paradigms in the education system that
hamper the development of creative capacity among
learners.
 He emphasized that schools stigmatize mistakes. This

primarily prevents students from trying and coming up
with original ideas. He also reiterated the hierarchy of
systems.
ISSUES IN TEACHING

CREATIVITY
Firstly, most useful subjects such as Mathematics and
languages for work are at the top while arts are at the
bottom.
 Secondly, academic ability has come to dominate our

view of intelligence.
 Curriculum competencies, classroom experiences, and

assessment are geared toward the development of
academic ability.
ISSUES IN TEACHING

CREATIVITY
Students are schooled in order to pass entrance exam in
colleges and universities later on. Because of this painful
truth, Robinson challenged educators to:
 Educate the well-being of learners and shift from the
conventional leanings towards academic ability alone;
 Give equal weight to the arts, the humanities, and to physical
education;
 Facilitate learning and work stimulating curiosity among
learners;
 Awaken and develop powers of creativity among learners; and
 View intelligence as diverse; dynamic and distinct, contrary to
common belief that it should be academic ability-geared.

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ART LITERACY

Defined as the knowledge and understanding required

While individuals can learn about dance, media,

 Being able to critically read, write, and speak about

 Find joy, inspiration, peace, intellectual stimulation,

 Seek artistic experiences and support the arts in

 He emphasized that schools stigmatize mistakes. This

 Secondly, academic ability has come to dominate our

 Curriculum competencies, classroom experiences, and

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