Joseph O'Neill explores how museums could adapt language and learnings from arts education to better describe and extend their impact.
How would you try to convince a naysayer of the value of arts education? Maybe you would plead for the value of these subjects in their own right, citing the mind-expanding powers of self-expression, technical exploration, and human understanding. Or, depending on how stubborn your opponent is, you might try a different tack, pointing to the evidence that immersing children in the arts leads to better outcomes in all academic areas, even the ones they privilege.
In either case, you would be right, but you wouldn’t be thinking big enough, say Kylie Peppler, Maggie Dahn, and Mizuko Ito, authors of the Wallace-Foundation-sponsored report The Connected Arts Learning Framework: An Expanded View of the Purposes and Possibilities for Arts Learning... Keep reading on American Alliance of Museums.
How would you try to convince a naysayer of the value of arts education? Maybe you would plead for the value of these subjects in their own right, citing the mind-expanding powers of self-expression, technical exploration, and human understanding. Or, depending on how stubborn your opponent is, you might try a different tack, pointing to the evidence that immersing children in the arts leads to better outcomes in all academic areas, even the ones they privilege.
In either case, you would be right, but you wouldn’t be thinking big enough, say Kylie Peppler, Maggie Dahn, and Mizuko Ito, authors of the Wallace-Foundation-sponsored report The Connected Arts Learning Framework: An Expanded View of the Purposes and Possibilities for Arts Learning... Keep reading on American Alliance of Museums.