Visual Arts Education

Visual Arts education provides opportunities for students to develop higher order thinking and problem solving skills. It enables them to enhance imagery and spatial learning, individual, cultural, global and aesthetic awareness.

Visual Arts education enables the child to explore alternative ways of communicating with others. It encourages ideas that are personal and inventive and makes a vital contribution to the development of a range of intelligences. A purposeful arts education at primary level is life- enhancing and is invaluable in stimulating creative thinking and in promoting capability and adaptability. It emphasis the creative process and so ensure that the child’s work is personal and has quality.

Objectives of Visual Arts

Students through this curriculum would be provided opportunities to develop the ability to:

• Learn to appreciate art
• Explore a variety of art materials while learning new techniques and processes
• Analyze, reflect and apply the structure of arts with its core elements
• Perceive and respond to work of arts, objects in nature and events
• Create work of art by using their skills of observation and response
• Place objects in space, understand dimensional perspectives and thematic drawing
• Recognize and analyze works of art from various historical periods and diverse cultures
• Establish a constructive and positive environment conductive to creative experience
• Recognize their own ideas, values and beliefs and communicate them through Visual Art
• Make enriching connections and integrate Visual Arts and other curricular areas
• Develop and promote self-expression

My personal aims for an art program also include:

• Introducing art as a visual language
• Developing personal aesthetic awareness and visual literacy
• Generation of personal and relevant ideas through a variety of mediums and approaches
• Problem-solving skills
• Higher order thinking skills involving analysis, evaluation, and synthesis
• Encouragement of students to learn through experimentation
• Development of creative potential
• Development of self-expression and cultural identity
• Fostering of an understanding of other cultural heritages
• Promotion of co-operation and collaboration
• Encourage creativity and experimentation with a variety of media, materials, techniques and processes
• Develop intellectual and expressive potential through art experiences