Curriculum Integration in Art Education: Comprehensive Report

This report explores the concept of curriculum integration within art education, highlighting its alignment with postmodernist principles and its emphasis on connecting art with other subjects. The report discusses how art education fosters learning by connecting it with prior knowledge and imagination. It explores the role of cognitive psychology in understanding how the mind processes information and the importance of imagination in the learning process. The report also emphasizes the integration of art with other disciplines and how this integration enhances learning and promotes creativity. References are provided to support the ideas presented in the report.

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Curriculum Integration
Art education is endorsed by postmodern theorists where the art is considered as
contextualized, emphasis is upon content with respect to form and domains are not clear. Art’
integration with the other subjects could be congruent with postmodernism’s tenets as ideas
could be formed by it, crosses the disciplinary boundaries for revealing the conceptual
connections as well as locates art with respect to other disciplines. Integration is emerging within
art education which explores learning and theory of visual culture (Bautista et al. 621). These
emphasize connections among body, experience, thinking of high order, emotion, culture and
context. Knowledge could be no longer considered to be divided in discrete domains, however is
seen with respect to integrated system. Education’s aim is fully activating learner’s cognitive
potential.
Connecting art with inquiry’s other areas in integrative substantive way reveals
foundation of every discipline as well as makes for the sound pedagogy as this is compatible
with way mind works. It highlights as well as promotes learning. It also catalyzes creativity.
Learning takes place when there is new information attached with prior knowledge as well as
placed within existing conceptual schemata or compartments. Cognitive psychology continues in
building upon concept of Piaget that mind is system that is constructed of basic units. Cognition
is function to organize information in modules in bigger mental structure. Another crucial link
among creativity and learning lies in imagination’s concept (Scott et al. 19). Due to mind’s
pictorial nature, imaginative leaps or links are manifested within mental images. As imagination
operates by constructing bridges among perceived entities as well as develops through
projection, this is linked closely to understanding and learning.

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References
Bautista, Alfredo, et al. "Curriculum integration in arts education: Connecting multiple art forms
through the idea of ‘space’." Journal of Curriculum Studies 48.5 (2016): 610-629.
Scott, Tanya, and Todd Twyman. "Considering Visual Arts Practices at the Secondary Level:
Extending Cross-Curricular Conversations Among Secondary Educators." Art Education 71.2
(2018): 16-20.