The Role of Visual and Media Arts in Early Childhood Curriculum

This report examines the crucial role of visual and media arts in early childhood education and school curricula. It highlights their significance in fostering communication, analytical, social, motor, and intellectual skills. The report explores how visual and media arts contribute to children's cultural lives, including their understanding of values and ethics, and emphasizes the importance of children as producers rather than just consumers of art. It also discusses the positive impacts of visual learning on children's memory retention and emotional development, as well as the role of schools and families in supporting this learning. The report concludes by emphasizing the essential nature of visual and art learning in children's education, promoting better knowledge and ethical values.

WHY ARE THE VISUAL
AND MEDIA ARTS
IMPORTANT IN EARLY
CHILDHOOD AND
SCHOOL CURRICULA

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
The Importance Of Visual And Media Arts For Learning And Development...........................1
Role Of Visual And Media Arts In The Cultural Lives Of Children And Families...................2
Role of Children as Producer not Consumers in Art Culture......................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Visual and media arts in the early childhood education plays an important role as they
are the learnings which will help the child to increases the morale values and ethics. This
learnings will help the child to take the effective decisions in doing any task as it increase the
efficiency of the concepts in the childhood. The visuals and media also help the child to develop
the knowledge about the cultures, beliefs of the society and the community. it is also the base of
learning which will help the children increase the understanding about the duties and
responsibilities as a human being and also as the part of a religion. This report will give a detail
knowledge about the roles and importance of visual and media arts as the method of education in
the childhood and what are the challenges faced in making this an effective way to increase the
knowledge of the child.
The Importance Of Visual And Media Arts For Learning And Development
Visual and media arts learnings is very important in the early childhood as it help the
child to improve the skill and efficiently understand the typical tasks in a fun-loving manner and
it also creates an effective impact in the minds of the child if they learn with the images and
videos. Some importance of Visuals and Media arts learnings are.
Communication Skills
the children also have many issues in communication with each other as they do not
understand which also discourages them to interact in the society(Asikin and Daningsih, 2018).
The child learns to communicate with the help of visuals as the infant learns to communicate
with others by listening and visualizing their parents talking and also learning the various
methods which they used to communicate their messages. And art is the non-verbal type of
communication and it does included the communication of the feelings and it is very important
for the child to learn the arts to portray the feelings.
Analytical skills
Arts and visual also help the child to learn the how and why of the nature and with the
help of art the child learn to make decisions about the types of painting they want to draw, which
colour will be more effective in the painting and this help the child to become more efficient.
Visuals provide the knowledge about all the areas which the child will crease the information
database that they can take better decisions later.
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Social Skills
art helps the child to learn more about sharing and accepting others. This help the child to
increase their skills to become more social and involve in the activities which will help them to
increaser their knowledge. It also helps the child to increase the positive attitude towards society
so that they can be more respecting. Visuals help children to become more knowledgeable and
provide the better opportunity to increase their emotional feelings like sympathy, empathy, love.
Motor Skills
Children also increase their motor skills as art help the child to generate the impact of
lifting a paintbrush, or holding a book, changing the pages to draw this will help them to increase
the sensation in the body and also motivate the child to try more to do exactly what they see in
the visuals. As children have the tendency of copying things so visuals will help the child to
teach how to lift without actually teaching them.(Thom, Krüger and Ertl, 2015)
Intellectual skills
the intellectual of the children very important and it will also help the child to increase
the ability to increase the quality of the skills. The intellectual skills will be developed to
increase in the art and visual learning as it will provide the child to become more open and help
to develop the mind with more things. The retention power of the mind will also be improved
with the help of arts and visual learning as the child will be able to remember the knowledge for
longer and increase the efficiency of their personality.(Price, Cohen and Xu, 2019)
Role Of Visual And Media Arts In The Cultural Lives Of Children And Families
Visual learning to have increased and it is now in trend due to increase in the befits of the
children which help the families to develop and gain more increased knowledge. Visual cultures
have increased due to change in the technology ad increase I the demand of entertainment which
make helped the parents to gather the information for their child to teach them and increase their
intellect effectively.
1. Visuals are responsible increase the efficiency of the child by improving their knowledge
to understand the different things which are displayed In the visuals.
2. Visuals also create an effective impact on the thinking ability of the child as they are
more attracted towards the visuals which also help them to create the conceptual clarity
of the topics.(Suyatna and et.al., 2017)
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3. Visualizing also help the child to learn how to react and also increase the emotions and
empathy so that they can increase the social skills and involve in the conversation
effectively.
4. Children which are provided the visuals and arts learnings will help the child to increase
the memory retention power as the children will be more effective in remembering the
visuals and also decrease thinking times to solve any problem.
5. The role of visual arts on the cultural values will be that it will help the child to provide
knowledge about culture, beliefs, values and ethics so that they can take decisions so that
they can imp-rove the personalty of the child and increase the opportunity of the career
enhancement in the future.
6. It also helps the child to develop new ideas and also innovate their skills to improve their
work. Art help child to increase the creativity and innovation in the mind and visuals
provide the base information to the child from where they can take reference to
implement it in reality.
7. The family which support the visual and art learning also have proper understanding
about the importance of visuals and arts in the teaching line as it will also help the family
to increase the communication with the child and it will also help the child to share the
feelings with their families with help of visuals and art.
8. As visuals and art are the medium through the communication is sent or received very
effectively this will also increase the quality of cultural values and personal values to the
child by the parents.
9. The etiquettes and mannerism is also learned by the help of parents and teachers which
help the child to develop an effective social and cultural environment.(Widodo and
Ikhwanudi, 2018)
Role of Children as Producer not Consumers in Art Culture
These statements mean children are not the customers and are not seen as the economic
beneficiary, but they can help other to increase the sales and earn them money. As the child is
consuming the knowledge so that they can use it to produce better art in the future. So the art
culture learnings for the children is increasing the information database of the child so that they
can provide the better skills and increase the quality of their work in the future. It is also very
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important for the child to understand all the factors of the area so that they can also increase the
efficiency of their brain. The children are the producer of the art culture as they provide the base
top generate the knowledgeable and let the other think as the child is small and do not have, but
they allow other to generate creative ideas so that they can increase the learning with the help of
visuals and arts(Thom and et.al, 2015). This will also increase the efficiency of the children in
the future and increase the opportunity to be more effective in deciding and creating ideas for the
development of the society.
There are many impacts of the development of the society due to the increase the
intellectual of the child as they are smarter and with the help of visual learning they also learn
negative things faster which can attract them to be at wrong path and this also demoralize the
social boundaries to teach children in environment where the child have more knowledge about
the technology so that they can be easily integrated in the environment.
There are many developments in the visual industry as the surveys help them industry to increase
the efficiency and also help them to increase the techniques. This will also help the child to be
more developed and it will help the industry to grow effectively they will also earn more to
support the benefits of the children and provide better knowledge to them.
The school is the consumers of the art and the children learn the art and increase the knowledge
so that they can also generate the skill;s which will help the industry to grow further it will also
provide better information the visuals. Schools have the ability to teach children about al the
factors.(Baylen and D'alba, 2015)
This art also help the children to develop the digital skills and increase their knowledge
as the increases the potential of the children as a young person due to technology they are mote
efficient in improving the society with the help of art and visuals. This provides deep impact on
the minds of other and help attract them to the industry.
Art and visuals also help the economy to grow effectively as the children also contribute
in the society by providing their innovative mind at very young age and it is very good for the
society to gain the effective ideas at very early stage just with the help of visual learning and arts
education. All the industry related to kids provide knowledge top the kids from the food
packaging, to songs, everything help to develop a child and increase their knowledge.(Radesky,
Schumacher and Zuckerman, 2015)
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CONCLUSION
From the above study it can be concluded that visual and Art learning is very essential
part for education of children in the culture. This provides better opportunity for the children and
it also helps them to develop themselves with the help of better knowledge and increase the
quality of products and services. Visuals also help the children to increase the values and ethics
of the children so that they can be more responsible in the society and delver better results.
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