EPC-2 Art and Drama in Education · Art and Drama in Education • Meaning of Art: The expression...

EPC-2Art and Drama in Education

• Meaning of Art:The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form of painting or sculpture.

Art is producing work to be appreciated primarily for beauty or imagination

Art is a diverse range of human activities and the product of those activities involves imagination and technical skill

Art means language

Art means value

•Language of visual art•Pupils learn to describe, analyze, interpret•Increases linguistic ability•Increases verbal expression•Produces critical thinkers

•Touching values•Home and family: emotions•Work and play•Individual and society•Nature and environment•War and peace•Past, present and future•Cultural diversity

Developmental benefit of

art

Motor development

language

Decision making

Visual learning innovation

Cultural awareness

Destress

Academic performance