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Integrating the ArtsErgle
University of Central Florida
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Art Integration: A Methodology for LearningUsing the arts as a teaching methodology
allows students to think more deeply about subject matter.
Knowledge is evolving and non-staticArt allows students to apply knowledge in an
imaginative way and make personal connection to subject/concept.
Transformation (a constructivist idea) causes students to take in their observations, seriously work with them internalize them, and transform them into their own knowledge and understanding.
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What are “the Arts”Defined broadly in this class:
Performing Arts: dance, drama, music, voiceVisual Arts: photography, literature, sculpture,
drawing and painting
“Art is life and life is art” The arts are humanity’s expression of life itself.”
Art encourages imagination and creativity fundamental to all careers- CEO, auto mechanic, computer tech, teacher
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Methodology for Learning
Learning With the Arts
A way for students to learn about a subject, concept, people, culture by examining art.
Learning about the Cherokee by listening to authentic music and art.
Learning about a mathematical concept by looking at nature such as a nautilus shell.
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Methodology for LearningLearning Through the Arts:
Encourages students to expand their understanding of a concept by expressing it through an art form.
Drawing a picture map of a storyActing out a poemDramatize a court sceneSing the 50 states and capitalsCreating a metaphorical sculpture to represent the role of a
teacher or of knowledgeCreate a Facebook page as a character from historyWrite a poem or song about a scientific concept
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Methodology for LearningLearning about the ArtsLearning with and through the arts can lead
to a desire to know more about the arts.After using George Seurat’s pointillism in
math class, the students wanted to know more about impressionism.
After an assignment in science using photography, students wanted to look online for more nature photographers and how to take better photographs.
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