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Artistic Literacy

Artistic Literacy is defined by the National Coalition for Core Arts


Standards : A Conceptual Framework for Arts Learning (2014) as the
"knowledge and understanding required to participate authentically in the
arts" . While individuals can learn about dance, media, music, theatre, and
visual arts through reading print texts, artistic literacy requires that they
engage in artistic creation processes directly through the use of materials
• Researchers have recognised that there are significant benefits of arts
learning and engagement in schooling (Einser, 2002: MENC, 1996: Persa,
Nutton, Fraser, Silburn & Tait, 2011). The arts have been shown to create
environments and conditions that result in improved academic, social, and
behavioral outcomes for students, from early childhood through the early
and later years of schooling.
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• However , due to the range of art forms and the
diversity and complexity of programs and research
that have been implemented, it is difficult to
generalise findings concerning the strength of the
relationship between the arts and learning and the
causal mechanisms underpinning these
associations.
• Engaging in quality arts education experiences provides students with an
outlet for powerful creative expression, communication, aesthetically rich
understanding, and connection to the world around them. Being able to
critically read, write, and speak about art should not be the sole
constituting factors for what count as literacy in the Arts. (Shenfield,
2015.).
Elliot Einser posted valuable lessons or benefits that education can learn from
arts and he summarized these into eight as follows:

• Form and Content cannot be separated. How something is said or done


shapes the content of experience.
• Everything interacts; there is no content without form and no form
without content.
• Nuance matters. To the extent to which teaching is an art, attention to
nuance is critical.
• Suprise is not to be seen as an intruder in the process of inquiry, but as a
part of the rewards one reaps when working artisitcally.
• Slowing down perception is the most promising way to see what
is actually there.
• The limits of language are not the limits of cognition. We know
more than we can tell
• Somatic experience is one of the most important indicators that
someone has gotten it right.
• Open-ended tasks permit the exercise of imagination, and an
exercise of the imagination is one of the most of human aptitudes.
Characterizing Artistically Literate Individuals
How would you characterize an artisitcally literate student? Literature on Art
Education and Art Standards in Education cited the following as common traits of
artistically literate individuals:

• Use a variety of artistic media, symbols, and metaphors to communicate their


own ideas and respond to the artistic communications of others;
• Develop creative personal realization in at least one art form in which they
continue active involvement as an adult;
• Cultivate culture, history, and other connections through diverse forms and
genres of artwork;
• Find joy, inspiration, peace, intellectual stimulation, and meaning
when they participate in the arts; and
• Seek artistic experiences and support the arts in their
communities.
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