Arts Education in Primary School

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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