What are the arguments for teaching the Arts?
Sousa makes several different arguments for teaching the arts in schools. Basically, the arts play an important part in human development, enhancing the growth of cognitive, emotional, and psycho motor pathways. Schools are also obligated to expose the children to the arts at a young age and consider arts as fundamental, not optional, curriculum areas. Lastly, learning the arts provides higher quality human experience through a person's lifestyle.
How does art education develop cognitive growth?
Sousa provides several ways art education develops cognitive growth. First and foremost, students exposed to well-designed art experiences produce positive academic and social effects and assist in the development of critical development of critical academic skills, basic and advanced literacy, and numeracy. Students also develop essential thinking tools like: pattern recognition and development ;mental representation; careful observed or imagined; symbolic, allegorical, and metaphorical representations; careful observation of the world; and abstraction from complexity. Students also learn to work more diligently and learn from each other.
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