Arts Education in Primary School

This essay explores the value of arts education in primary schools, including its role in teaching the whole child and fostering well-being. It discusses the pressure and opportunities of placing arts within a crowded curriculum and highlights the importance of creativity in child development. The essay also examines the unique aspects of arts that differentiate it from other learning areas.

ESSAY
ARTS EDUCATION IN
PRIMARY SCHOOL

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
About Arts eduction in Children’s in Australia .....................................................................1
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences ...........................................................................2
Vygotsky’s Sociocultural theory............................................................................................2
The Value of Arts Education in Primary Schools..................................................................3
Pressure and Opportunities about placing the Arts within a crowded curriculum ................3
The role played by Arts in teaching the whole child and fostering well-being......................5
Important For Child to be Creative........................................................................................5
Unique about the Arts which makes it different from other learning areas...........................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Every person deserves a complete and competitive education that includes arts. The arts
are an essential subject area in Australian schooling. The Australian National Curriculum for the
arts is scheduled for implementation (Hui, He and Ye, 2015). It is true that arts subjects are
increasingly being depriotised in many schools and that there fall in the number of pupils taking
arts subjects. It is very important in Australian schooling to taught in class rooms by primary
school teachers.
This assignment task is designed to examine the vale of Arts in educating children. This
essay will also allow the opportunities to clarify own thinking about the place of the Arts in
primary schools.
MAIN BODY
About Arts eduction in Children’s in Australia
According to the Wright, (2015) Every person deserves a complete as well as competitive
eduction that includes the arts. Arts eduction is the various types of things to different people. It
has been said by the author that, education in arts is an opportunity to nurture children’s in order
to discoverer truth through imagination, collaboration, efforts and cultural skills. Arts education
has become a critical part of National Curriculum for Australia and it is forcefully
implementation in 2014. It can be said that, it is not easy to give arts education to children’s as it
requires skills, confidence and capable teachers to teach the children’s in primary schools. Arts
eduction includes various things such as dance, media, visual arts, music, drama and it also
creates positivity among the behaviour of the child. However, it has been believed that to give
arts education it is important to require innovative teachers with creative mind and imaginative
approaches. But Gregory, Haynes and Murris, (2016) augured that in 2010, the education bureau
of Australia has investigated that teachers were not so efficient and capable to deliver arts
education in the schools.
Therefore, it is clearly reflected that art allow the youth practice a wide range of skills
which are used for their life. For example, a child learn fine motor skills which includes grasping
pencils and crayons, chalk and paint brushes that helps to develop fine motor skills. That is why,
most of the schools in Australia are majorly focuses on Art education. Moreover, it also helps to
develop cognitive development in which they start thinking critically. For instance, using art, a
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child create am image in their mind and as a result, they think pros and cons of such thing in
order to improve their cognitive development.
Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
This theory is also knowns as multiple intelligence which was developed in 1983. There
are eight different intelligences to account for a wider range of human potential in children and
adults (Sanchez-Martin and et.al., 2017). This theory has powerful impact on the learning as well
as development on the students. These intelligences are as follows-
Linguistic Intelligence (Word Smart)
Logical-mathematical intelligences (reasoning smart)
Spatial intelligences (picture smart)
Bodily Kinaesthetic intelligences (body smart)
Musical Intelligence (music smart)
Interpersonal Intelligence (people smart)
Intrapersonal Intelligence (self smart)
Naturalist Intelligence (nature smart)
It is not important to consider all these principles in learning as teacher can decide the way to
provide arts education in schools. For example, use of smart words, pictures, music.
As per the theory define that the tradition psychometric views of intelligence are too limited and
when a child hear the word intelligence, concept of IQ testing is immediately come into mind.
For example, if the child is particularly strong in any area such that musical intelligence then
they definitely posses different range of abilities such that naturalistic intelligence.
Vygotsky’s Sociocultural theory
This is another theory that depicts that for development of society it is important that
interaction skills are present. Individual development is the main focus of this theory. Teacher
can provide arts education in the class rooms. They can plan there lessons. For example, they
may organize the students into small groups where less skilled children are paired with students
who have a higher skill level (Marginson and Dang, 2017). Direct and fast instruction can be
used that aids to improve the skills level of student. Moreover, the theory also state that a child
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will never learn many things without society such as language skill and they need to be with
people who learn how to use the language and they are also be curious and exploring to learn,
while another child may not to be.
The Value of Arts Education in Primary Schools
As per the findings of Zhou and Cheng, (2016) Arts eduction is under pressure from
several years but still its importance in the development and growth of children’s remains same.
However, national curriculum is the main base of designing the arts subject but emphasize of
consecutive governments on skills, literacy, science and mathematics has marginalised its
teaching in primary schools. It can be said that, arts is the subject that helps to develop secondary
educations. Fleming, (2018) stated that, creativity and imagination is one of the best advantage
that children’s have by learning arts education as they can take experience of the world as well as
transform them through art making new relationship along with connection with their innovative
and creative minds. For example, I have given task for painting on the waterfall sceneries where
I have experience great imagination of primary students and it also raises my imagination as
well. Arts eduction also makes children’s to look into, build imaginative and fanciful ideas. It
can be argued that, it is not true that all person can become innovative and creative as it is god
grace to have creative thinking.
On the other hand, McFerran, Crooke and Hattie, (2018) said that, observation skills is
also developed in children’s as they see various pictures draw arts by observing the world very
closely that enable to build up observation skills. For example, I have given picture in which so
many things are indulged into it like where students have to observe and note there on there
notebooks where I have personally experienced that there were so many things which I have not
observed. Further, arts education is also beneficiary for children’s as it develop visual thinking as
they through pictures and images and others that boost up their knowledge to understand the
world visually. It can be stated that body languages really matters in the life of a person which is
developed by arts education. Arts education allows kids to develop expression like they to
express what they feel and how to present it through facial expressions. For example, I have
planned games for students where I had showed some pictures where one student have to
identify the expression and imaging the picture which I have showed.
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Pressure and Opportunities about placing the Arts within a crowded curriculum
There are various types of opportunities and pressure about placing the Arts within a
crowded curriculum. One of the biggest pressure that schools are facing is today school are
declining how best to handle unsafe over-crowded curriculum as said by Heidegger, (2017).
Today, school are offering so much things in arts subjects that results in affecting the real life
learning that may be suffer. These are the genuine concerns which children’s in primary
equations are being asked to take knowledge and understanding of too many things. But Sleeter
and Carmona, (2016) argued that, there are many opportunities about placing the Arts within a
crowded curriculum as now students have incredible and so many opportunities to learn different
things. That results in making a child perfect as they can develop observation skills, critical
thinking skills, innovative and creative mind etc.
In addition to this, with the increasing art's eduction education crowded curriculum now
schools have also opportunities to maintain the effective and efficient standard. Australian
schools maintain a standard called “3Rs” acronym stand for reading, writing and rithematic.
Schools are taking this arts education as good opportunity to expand as they are now offering
more classes which suits predominantly audio, visual learner and kinaesthetic. On the other side,
these statements were argued by the Van der Wende, (2017) as they said, it is not always
possible to maintain the standard of arts education as it required huge amount of resources and
expenditures. It can be favoured by the words that, timetabling in school also become highly
complex activity for the management of school as they have to face extra strain on them to
manage all these subjects because arts education is not a single subjects as there are so many
sub-subjects attached over their. For example, as children describe and also share their artwork
as well as their process then they easily develop language skills. Further it also encourage the
development by actively listening and asking the open ended question in return as well.
The pressure of placing the Arts within a crowded curriculum is becoming highly
concern for parents and educators from last many years and there does not appear to be any sign
that these issues or pressure will be solve in the coming time as said by Douglas and Jaquith,
(2018). The demand and expectations of parent is rising and growing continuously to develop
and grow the whole person that results in creating pressure on schools. It can be said that, this
problem cannot only be solved by providing classes for painting and drawing but it requires the
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whole development of a child and for that they have to applied brand new ways to gear up a
child.
The role played by Arts in teaching the whole child and fostering well-being
According to the Coholic and Eys, (2016) education in arts can contribute to the physical,
intellectual and emotional well-being of children’s. The whole development of child is approach
which valued the spirit of human as well as the development of child entirely such as physically,
emotionally and socially cognitive. Well-being do not only mean the development of physical
body but it requires emotionally and socially fit and fine which can be done through arts
education. It can be stated that, arts education fosters well-being as they provide physical
education, development of character, nutrition, mindfulness, emotional and physical safety along
with apparitional development of child. Cox, Brett-MacLean and Courneya, (2016) argued that,
focusing only on education in arts or social and physical development, it will affect the real
education which is also more important. The mind of student is not developed to that extent that
they can know their good and bad like they are not matured and if schools purely focus on
education in arts than there level of interest will be moved to that instead of core subjects.
Arts educations plays a great role in fostering well-being of a child as beside just only
teaching academic subjects, teachers can identify the emotional skills. It also promoted and
encourage supportive environment which is also one of the key factor in development of student
as whole and child well-being as said by McFerran, Thompson and Bolger, (2016). To foster a
love of art in children, teachers have to teach it primary school. Arts educations makes a child
how to interact with people in daily routine of life and it also helps in the development of
resilience to cope with whatever life throws at them and turn into well rounded along with
healthy adults. Art plays an important role such that it helps a student to learn and socialise in
which they want to invest an to For example, usually in general courses, children did not have
an interest because it describe only theoretical knowledge. On the other side, arts provide
pictures and images that helps them to learn the same throughout their entire life.
Important For Child to be Creative
The escaped form of self-expression as there is not more that its satisfaction as well as
fulfilling for children than to able to express themselves freely without any opinion. Children are
the future of the Australia and if they are creative than no one can stop the growth of the nation
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as said by Jennings, (2017). Further, it can also be said that, the capability to be innovative is to
develop sometime from insight experience and feelings. The creativeness nurtures the experience
of child emotional well-being which I think one of the best to develop the future of a child. In
addition to this, education in arts is essential because it boosts the movement, create coordination
among them. For example, making motor cycle, painting face pictures etc that helps a student to
gain better experience for their future and even by manipulating the tools as well as exploring the
construction which result in increasing the physical attention. As per the findings of
Geagea,Vernon and MacCallum, (2019) creativity is important for child for the emotional
development of child as it enable child to express and convey there thoughts which they cannot
do verbally. Creativity also helps in increasing the self-esteem of child. On the other hand, it can
be said that creativeness in child helps in social development. Child lean how to interact and
communicate with people and it is the most common aspects of social learning. It can be said
that, the best weapon used for child development in the power of imagination a child have and it
can only be seen with help art education.
Unique about the Arts which makes it different from other learning areas
The process of technique that acquire knowledge as well as abilities with the application
of creative techniques is called as creative learning. Australian government has make this as a
fundamental goal to deploy creativity in the learning as stated by Mohareb, Elsamahy and Felix,
(2019). Creativity is the foundation of innovation. It is also true that creativity in learning or
educating people. Siegel and Bryson, (2018) it can be questioned that, is creativity can be
thought???? Creativity is inner strength and capability of a person and it cannot be build up by
education or learning. However, Teksoz and et.al., (2017) said that, the world is changing very
fast as it helps student to succeed in 21st century.
Education in arts can contribute to the physical, intellectual and emotional well-being of
kids of primary school. It is very important and most essential skills to become professional in
the future. Schools are making students learn through conducting activities and help materials.
Arts education allows children to develop expression like they to express what they feel and how
to present it through facial expressions. For example, Art education is that art education provides
extra activities like painting, music, dancing, drama, planting and many other co curriculum
activities that aids a child for their whole development and growth. This is the main difference
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have in arts education as it develop the person from each angle instead of only l;earning about
core subject like science, maths, English etc.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be summarized that educations in as it very important in
primary schools. The whole development of child is approach which valued the spirit of human
as well as the development of child entirely such as physically, emotionally and socially
psychological feature. Further, assignment also discussed that to give arts education it is
important to necessitate innovative teachers with creative mind and imaginative approaches. On
the other hand, essay has also included the pressure felt by school are offering so many things in
arts subjects that results in affecting the real life learning that may be suffer. Further, school are
also facing the issues of requiring the fund and working capital for providing separate classes in
arts subjects it is because it is not only a single subject there are various other sub-subjects. The
unique feature of arts education is that provides extra activities like painting, music, dancing,
drama, planting and many other co curriculum activities.
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