02/02/2023
Art Integration
What is Art Integration?
It is ‘teaching through the arts’ and ‘with the arts’.
It brings out diverse perspectives, enriching the learning processes by enabling students to observe, explore, think and learn without constraints.
Children engage with emotions and creativity on a cognitive level to integrate and simplify complex learning experiences.
It is a process where art becomes the medium of teaching-learning, a key to understanding concepts within any subject of the curriculum.
Why Art Integration?
It provides multiple ways for students to make sense of what they learn (construct understanding) and make their learning visible (demonstrate understanding).
It helps children with the development of motor skills, language skills, social skills, decision making, risk taking and inventiveness.
Visual arts teach learners about colour, layout, perspective and balance of all techniques that are necessary in presentations (visual or digital).
It creates joyful classroom and imbibes the Indian ethos through integration of Indian Art and Culture.
It broadens the mind of the student and enables him/her to see multi-disciplinary links between subjects/topics/real life.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
This will impact PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL,MORAL,AESTHETIC, CULTURAL & SCIENTIFIC aspects of development of students.
To ensure Joyful and Experiential learning
To develop 21st century skills e.g. critical thinking, creativity, reflection, initiation
To help students face real life situation outside classroom
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Art Integrated learning will enable students to learn collaboratively.
They will value every participant’s opinion and idea and develop confidence and build ability to express.
This will enable students to improve their communication skills.
They will understand the desirable values learnt such as sharing, caring, patience and friendship along with learning.
Their communicative, collaborative, critical thinking and leadership skills shall be enhanced.
They will learn the values of patriotism and fraternity.