Arts Education
Arts and culture education has its unique role in an educational whole. In this chapter arts education is viewed as a means for children and young people to develop a secure sense of themselves, both as individuals and members of various groups within mul
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14. ARTS EDUCATION Instruments of Expression and Communication
ABSTRACT
Arts and culture education has its unique role in an educational whole. In this chapter arts education is viewed as a means for children and young people to develop a secure sense of themselves, both as individuals and members of various groups within multicultural and diverse societies. Arts education constructs students’ abilities and intercultural competence for confronting an increasingly unforeseen world as future citizens that learn to develop their creative potential and free, critical thinking skills. This chapter presents an outline of Finnish arts education, which consists of the following separately taught subjects: visual arts, music, crafts (textile and technical), physical education and home economics. Each of these is represented as a compulsory subject in the Finnish National Core Curriculum. Within this ‘arts and skills’ subject group, this chapter refers more exactly to the aims, pedagogical principles and practices of visual arts and music, which are compulsory subjects in all European school curricula at the primary level. Keywords: Finnish arts education, visual arts, music education, secure sense ARTS AND CULTURE IN EDUCATION
The role of arts and cultural education at school has been recently emphasized in various international contexts (see ACESE, 2009, 7). For example, UNESCO has actively led the development of policy initiatives in the field of arts education. According to the Director General of UNESCO (1999), each stakeholder has to ensure the teaching of the arts in every child’s education. The Road Map for Arts Education (UNESCO, 2006) aimed to provide advocacy and guidance for this project of strengthening arts education. This document stands for arts education helping to uphold the human right to education and cultural participation, to improve the quality of education, to develop individual capabilities, and to promote the expression of cultural diversity (ACESE, 2009, p. 7). Arts education has been given an important part in preparing children for their roles in an increasingly unforeseen world. Globalization has brought both benefits and challenges, such as advancements in technology and knowledge, challenges in
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the economy, increased migration and multiculturalism. Arts education, as a part of the education system, can be viewed as a means for children and young people at school to develop a secure sense of themselves, both as individuals and members of various groups within multicultural societies (ACESE, 2009, 7). We refer a secure sense of self to mean individual and social expressivity and communicability in diverse (cultural and creative) texts and situations as both receiver and producer. In these roles the personal experiences and values of processing art strengthen the capacity for cultural participation. Teaching the arts is said to help children and young people to l
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