The time has come when we have to come together to
address the dwindling state of art education on the continent of Africa. And
the time is now!
When a value of a thing is not known abuse is
inevitable. For this reason, we invited art educators/art enthusiasts to share
their thought on this topic: The importance and value of Art education to the
society. We have received about 66 responses so far and we shall be sharing
them in this post.
However,
the last ART EDUCATORS’ HANGOUT ended with applause for our presenter. Our
presenter was Dr.
Tijani Khadijah Iyabo, an Associate Professor of Art Education
at the Department of Fine Art, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. She has been teaching
Art for over 30 years, spanning all sectors of Academia i.e. Primary,
Secondary, the Polytechnic and the University.
Excerpts
from the presentation of Dr Tijani Khadijah Iyabo on the
value of Art Education is shared below:
- The first activity carried out by a child is art
- Art is a means of communication
- Art is use as a teaching aids to foster learning
- Art serves as a means for culture transmission from
generation to generation.
- Art instill aesthetic value
- Art formulates how we live in our communities
- Art is custodian of culture.
- Art is an integral of human life and core to human
growth
- Art teaches empathy
- Art encourages and foster collaboration, creativity
and critical thinking (thinking out of box). All the 21st century
skills.
- Art is used for therapy
- Art is a means of expression
- It is Science encapsulated in Art that becomes
innovation, a novel and invention.
- Art stimulates imagination
- Art foster observation skills
- Art foster problem solving skills.
- Art instill self-confidence and improve self esteem
- Art is used to relieve stress and improve well-being.
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Together and gradually we are changing the narrative
of art education on the continent of Africa. Below are the responses we received:
Art
education major is the link between the arts industry and the public. It
exposes the society to the values, importance and the relevance of arts &
its products to the day to day activities of people. It's affords the art
educator a platform for organized importation of knowledge to the laymen or
students.
Fahuwa felix
Kingskozept
Lagos, Nigeria
Art
education enhances visual creativity, it helps thinking creativity, improve
academic performance, it helps develop a child's fine motor skills, self-confidence,
it helps visual learning accuracy, sense of aesthetic values and finesse, it
teaches perseverance and focus, it gives room for collaboration, endurance,
tolerance and accountability. It helps develop and create new things. It
increases student engagement, learn positive habits, behaviours and attitudes.
It sharpens student’s critical intellectual skills. It helps student through mistakes
learn new ways of doing one thing in many more ways. Art Education gives
opportunities for self-improvement and self-discovery. Art education determined
the strength of the Society. The reason being that every other field is
interdependent on art education. The deep riches of any nation rested on the
creativity her citizens
Oladimeji Oluwagbemiga Isaac
Tai Solarin
College of education, omu Ijebu
Ijebu ode, Nigeria
Art education helps to transfer
knowledge and develop the sense of value for arts and artists. It also helps to
imbibe the sense of cultural preservation.
Fashakin Michael
Whitesands School, Lagos
Lagos,
Nigeria
Creating a
peaceful, conducive, beautiful and amazing environment for the people through
various artworks, sure as; paintings, sculptures, graphics design, ceramics,
textiles, crafts,etc.
It also
bring out the creativity in the pupils, learners and students in our various
institutions from the nursery to the higher institutions
Aregbesola Akinola
University
of Ado-Ekiti
Ijebu Ode, Ogun
State, Nigeria
1. Art education is congent to the
Preservation and Evolution of culture
2. Development of individual
ingenuity and maximing the potentials of individual uniqueness.
Thomas Oladayo Artistokraft
Funaab
Abeokuta, Nigeria
1. Art
education helps in imparting artistic skills in the learners.
2. Art
education imparts knowledge of art history in a society where learners apply
art appreciation from the past and the present.
3. Art
education promotes various skills and abilities that support value addition in
art production.
4. Art
education supports cultural preservation in form of art production,
appreciation, cultural identity and economic development of a society, etc.
5. Art
education enlightens a society on the many values that art has in a society
from aesthetic to socio-economic development.
Mike Chilemba
University
of Malawi, Chancellor College
Zomba, Malawi
If Art, is
seen as a means of natural expression and cuts across all disciplines, and
ethnicities which is not subdued to any kind of instructions, apparently, it
becomes the bedrock of impacting and imparting through learning, coaching,
mentoring and teaching visual arts and other branches of art education: such as
in performing arts: dance, music, theatre, and visual arts: drawing,
sculptures, painting, pottery, Weaving and fabric among others. Art Education
would create a sense for beauty and best way you help achieve this is to unfold
your innermost being and become, CREATIVITY "😁 Note that a world without art is a
world without spirit
Princess Theresa Oghogho Iyase-Odozi
University
of Lagos
Ogun State, Nigeria
Children are
known to express themselves and communicate through artistic expression. Therefore,
the value of arts education provides a levelled medium for them to interact.
This gives schools an informal way of addressing social issues affecting their
pupils, whilst enhancing their school curriculum. It has also been research
that kids are more likely to respond and remember topics dealt in forms of arts
education rather than traditional class lessons.
Gail Egbeson
Performing
Arts/ Theatre
United Kingdom
1. Foster
creativity
2. Develops
aesthetics in the individual. That is our sense of realising beauty.
3. Develops
the 3H. Head, heart, and hand. That is cognitive, Affection and the psychomotor
skills
4. Fosters
perception. Art develops our 5 senses in order to communicate effectively with
our immediate environment.
Ernest Asare
Morgan
International Community School
Agona
Swedru, Ghana.
1. It served
as a universal language.
2. It is a
means of self-expression.
3. It
employs critical thinking in creativity and problem solving.
4. It can
serve utilitarian purpose.
5. It can
serve as a means of employment.
6. It can earn
a country foreign exchange through its Museums and galleries.
7. It
contains records of a country's history.
8. It is
sometimes for beauty/ aesthetics.
9. It gives
legacy of creativity to posterity.
10. It
increase the level of observation and representation of images visually in the
mist accurate form.
Kehinde Adediran AFINOWI
KUJE SENIOR
SECONDARY SCHOOL
LAGOS,
NIGERIA
You can only
give what you have, if you don't have the knowledge, wisdom, and education,
definitely you can't add value to the society and human educational
development. Art education is the vehicle for civilization and cultural
advancement. The world becomes a better place to live in with the generation of
artists and their arts works expressing descriptive statements in different art
forms. And the society at large remains alive with the presence of art
educators and curator's.
Rasaki Olanrewaju .L. Oliyide
Elim
Educational Agency Limited
Lagos, Nigeria
It's a
conscious awareness of creativity born out of potentially towards recognition
and utilization of visual arts.
Olanrewaju
Temitope Julius
Government
Science and Technical College
Abeokuta, Nigeria
Art
education is sine qua non to human development. It stimulates creativity. It
gives us an outlet for expression of our innermost/deepest feelings and serves
as a connecting link between the past and the present generation. Undue
emphasis have been placed on the sciences to the detriment of arts. Science
cannot give expression to herself without the usage of art.
Otunaiya Ayodele Oluseyi
Federal
College Of Education, Abeokuta
Abeokuta, Nigeria.
Art
influences society by changing opinions, instilling values and translating
experiences across space and time. Research has shown art affects the
fundamental sense of self. Painting, sculpture, music, literature and the other
arts are often considered to be the repository of a society’s collective
memory. Art preserves what facts based historical records cannot: how it felt
to exist in a particular place at a particular time. Art in this sense is
communication; it allows people from different cultures and different times to
communicate with each other via images, sounds and stories. Art is often a
vehicle for social change. As the National Art Education Association points
out, art is beneficial for the artist as an outlet for work and self-reliance.
Art not only fosters the human need for self-expression and fulfillment; it is
also economically viable. The creation, management and distribution of art
employs many through work of art.
Olufayo Ibrahim Olajide
Tescom
Ijebu-ode, Nigeria
Art education is a powerful tool for self-expression in any
society and it is a cure to unemployment.
The
government should make art education a compulsory course and give adequate
provisions for its teaching.
Olanrewaju Shuaeeb Kusi
Lakuzzy
creations
Abeokuta Nigerian
Art is a
voice for justice, the down trodden, to tell a story, to sensitize a situation,
to create love, to bring forth colour and life, to cultivate innovation and to
generate income but last but not least to embrace cultures. Art Education
nourishes and teaches all of these vital aspects of our society.
Covid-19 has
really made it difficult for Artists and crafters relying on tourism for income
but this is the time in Africa to join the IT world and embrace the platforms
on offer. I am not an academic but a practical hands on person and I am amazed
how my trainers have found or still finding innovative ways to reach our
trainees during this time and to continue to engage them with projects
Michelle Inixas
COSDEF Arts
& Crafts Centre
Swakopmund, Namibia
The
important and value of Arts are too enormous, because without Arts, the created
of reality, will make the world unbearable. Art is life, and life general is
Arts. E.g. we have art of Greetings, cooking, and creating. Generally Arts is
the visual representations of human taught or a feelings that satisfy one
craving for the good.
Abiodun Abel Isaac
University
of Benin. Edo state!
Benin city, Nigeria.
Art
Education is a means of achieving a decent and hazard free environment through
aesthetic planning of the society. Art Education sharpens and broadens our love
for beauty and culturally rich society
Dr Ademola Azeez
Federal
College of Education Technical Akoka, Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria
Life is all
about Art
Onabolu Abiola
Lagos Nigeria
It creates
more information and charge the ideas of our fellow black people towards art.
Olatunji Joseph Ogunlowo
Wood carver
Lagos, Nigeria
Art education is the direct
educational component to carry out reflections on culture. Any nation is free
if it does not recognize the national culture. Thus the first value of Art
Education is its capacity to promote the conscience of the own culture. Through
Art education, learners can understand the role of culture in the construction
of a fair society. For instance, in what consist prejudices if not in a culture
of segregation? Whether Arts have the power to denounce social injustices,
Art-education possesses the potential to develop critical thinking skills from
artistic manifestations. Art-education, although its natural, hands-on
features, cannot diminishing to this restricted area. In case it is, we art
educators are admitting that Art-education as a tool of oppressors. Arts as
schools are into the society, not a part of it. Therefore, Art at school has to
promote reflections on the society it is in. Frantz Fanon, in his book The
Wretched on the Earth, deserting about culture, says, "If culture is the
expression of national consciousness, it is the national consciousness which is
the most elaborate form of culture." (P. 199). Art education as an
important component of the educational curriculum is the counterweight against
the universalization of culture and intellectual colonization.
José Márcio Carmo Plácido Santos
PASB
Brazil
To enable the individual to think
for himself.
To stimulates initiative and enable
individual to express himself or herself.
To train individual to be
independent and self-reliant.
To inculcate into individual the
spirit of organization and the act of responsibility.
Adeyemi Adedola
Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago -
Iwoye.
Ijebu-Itele,
Nigeria
1. Educating
the society
2.
Documenting the culture, tradition, values and heritage of the society
3.
Maintening and practicing some of the cultures, traditions, values and
heritages of the society 4. Source of communications among the society
5.
Empowering the society towards self-reliance
VALUES OF
ART EDUCATION
1. Aesthetic
value
2.
Educational value
3. Economic
value
4.
Expressive value
5. Cultural
and religious values
Art
education is a vehicle that carries the development of the society, because in
every aspect of life of the society there is an element of art. People lives
with art and used art in almost every aspect of their life e.g in the home,
school, mosque and churches e.t.c but the society either they don't know it is
art or they ignore to appreciate it as an important part of the societys' way
of life.
Bello Usman
Federal
College of Education (Technical) Bichi Kano State
Katsina, Nigeria
Art education helps in building you
up. Channeling your emotions and passing a message.
Funmilayo Awoyungbo
Orede Art Academy
Lagos Nigeria
In today's
world, an art and craft orientation is esoteric. Art must have design education
instead of Fine and applied Arts focus. This will make artists relevant in the
Creative industries as well as other technological options. There is no
technological breakthrough in Africa because the Africans do not know that art
is the missing link in technology courses.
Ifeta
Tai Solarin
University of Education, Ijagun
Ijebu- Ode Nigeria
Art education is very important in
the growth of any society because it provides opportunities for creative
thinking needed for the economic growth of any developing such as ours.
Ekpo Udo Udoma
Davinci, Nok & Bezaleel
Lagos, Nigeria
Art is very
important to the development of society. It helps us to understand other
subject areas while serving as channel for the humanizing of society.
Enekwachi Agwu
University
of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Enugu Nigeria
It add life to people's living.
Educate on the past and presnt artistic practices for future
embellishment/building. Creating job opportunities to people in the era of less
or no white collar job space. Building a complete citizen with acute
intelligence, proper observation, leadership traits, senses of colour, design
ADEKOYA Martins Omotunde Alaba
Tai Solarin College of Education,
Omu Ijebu
Ijebu ode, Nigeria
1. It helps
us to understand our culture and identity better.
2. Art
education makes us self-reliant.
3. It
teaches us patience
4. It widens
our imagination and makes us innovative.
Stanley Muoneto
Kenyatta
University
Abuja, Nigeria
Art
education is the bedrock of self-reliant society, wherein members of a society
can grow their economic value and fashion out modalities for tools and
implement needed for entry to the industrial revolution at their individual and
group levels.
There is a
need for value re-orientation among policy makers and political leaders that
Art is beyond crude/primitive expressions but the lead into intellectual entry
to the modern technology and digital lifestyle.
Oladunni Adesiji
Moshood
Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta
Abeokuta, Nigeria
It helps an
individual in the community to be innovative. Individuals are able to exhibit
tolerance, collaboration and develop skills.
Tsotorvor Rejoice Makafui
Akatsi
college of Education
Akatsi Ghana
Art education helps to visually
communicate ideas and information to the society. This makes some values being
exhibited and these values are not different from the normal values and beliefs
being acquired by a certain group of people. Some are discipline, good attitude
towards work, teamwork, etc.
Edem Kwami Buami
Ho Technical University
Art creates
opportunities for students to learn to appreciate and value images and
artefacts across times and cultures, and to understand the contexts in which
they were made. Experiences in art, craft and design enable them to learn how
to reflect critically on their own and others’ work. They learn to think and
act as artists, makers and designers, working creatively and intelligently.
They develop an appreciation of and engagement in art, craft and design as
critical consumers and audiences and an understanding of its role in the
creative and cultural industries that shape and enrich their lives. In life
‘knowing how’ is just as important as ‘knowing that’. Art, craft and design
introduces participants to a range of intellectual and practical skills. It
enables learners to use and understand the properties of a wide range of tools,
machines, materials and systems. It provides children, young people and
lifelong learners with regular opportunities to think imaginatively and
creatively and develop confidence in other subjects and life skills. It has a
crucial role at the centre of science, technology, engineering and mathematics;
Ojei uku-oritsemofe
Alvina
Schools
Effurun,
Delta State Nigeria
Art
education broadens the level of creativity and makes students become critical
thinkers in society. These are excellent attributes of good entrepreneurs and
as such unemployment can be reduced drastically in Africa if Art Education is
well promoted. Art used in so many facets of our lives today spanning from the
media houses to all manner of businesses.
Jonathan Agbanu
Morgan
International Community School
Gomoa-Manso,
Ghana
It preserves our culture
Olufowobi, Adetutu
EDUCATION DISTRICT V
Lagos, Nigeria
Art teaching helps children with the
development of motor skills, language skills, social skills, decision-making,
risk taking and inventiveness. Visual arts teach learners about colour, layout,
perspective, and balance, all techniques that are necessary in presentation
(visual or digital) of academic work. Art influences society by changing
opinions, instilling experiences acro ss space and time. Art in this sense is
communication, it allows people from different cultures and different times to
communicate with each other via images, sounds and stories. Art is often a
vehicle for social change. It can give voice to the politically or socially
disenfranchised. A song, film or novel can rouse emotions in those who
encounter it, inspiring them to rally for change. Art not foster the human need
for self-expression and fulfillment, it is also economically viable. The creation,
management and distribution art employs many.
Prof. Adamu A.Mbahi
University of Maiduguri
Maiduguri, Nigeria
It helps to
connect us to our past and cultural origin.
Bello Oarhe Abdullahi
UNIBEN
Lagos State,
Nigeria
It is a
universal language. Now that we are in the computer age, art will contribute a
lot to the understanding of educational facts. Art needs to be encouraged in
our education for the complete development of our thinking.
Osho,Rasheedat Abiodun
Lagos state
ministry of Education .Dist 3
Nigeria,
Lagos Ikoyi
Art is a medium of expression, it is
a means of communicating everything that concerns life. So art education is a
necessary tool towards impacting knowledge to the society. It is a means
towards a socio- cultural and economic development
Alabetutu Toyin Gloria
Ayinke Art African Aesthetics and
Clothing Limited
Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria
The
Knowledge of art is the backbone to the development of any society
No Knowledge
of art no development
Ojo Olaniyi
AUD Junior
Grammar schools Imota Lagos
Lagos Nigeria
In view of
the sublimal power in Art.... Art Education can be a tool to enhance the
language of thought and emotion for better understanding of people and to
communicate with others irrespective of culture or race. Art Education can be a
universal tool to protect diversity in multiple cultural society
Ike Tochukwu Aloysius
National
Museum of Unity Enugu, Education Department
Enugu, Enugu
state, Nigeria
Creativity
is the first thing i will like to talk about. Creativity is an obvious but extremely
important skill gained from art education and art make that available to all.
Observation. Understanding various types of art takes fine-tuned observation
even into general things around us. Self-expression. Art is the obvious arena
for self-expression. Focus. Discipline. Perseverance. Collaboration.
Risk-taking etc. This is a motor drive that i will like to join cause it one of
my goal to reach out to the next generation
Ebenezer Oluwafemi Awoderu
Vivian
Fowler Memorial for Girls school
Ikeja Lagos,
Nigeria
Art
education influences society by changing opinions, instilling values and
translating experiences across space and time. It affects the fundamental sense
of self. Art education has a great impact on the society, in the area of music,
dance, theatre and visual art.
Soremekun Emmanuel Olumide
Visual Art
Teachers Association of Nigeria (VATAN)
Nigeria
Art
education lays the foundation for the formation of the minds of the society.
This starts from what is been thought in our schools from the early childhood
to the disciplines we have in our tertiary institutions. Most disciplines
requires Art directly or indirectly. From Architecture to fashion, graphics,
stage design for drama, to house hold items, ceramics, interior, exterior Deco,
automobile industry, industrial design just to mention but a few. The aspect of
tourism and hospitality inclusive. Beautification of our environment.
Therapeutic functions of arts too.
Olufemi Ogunseye
Day Waterman
College Abeokuta
Abeokuta Nigeria
It bring
relaxation and meaning to the people seeing it also make Pepe develop heart for
creating things out of nothing. Most of the best minds in the world are
creativity inclined. It also help kids in area of developing their minds as
they grow up
Olatunji olawale
Diamonds
international school
Lagos Nigeria
Communication,
signs and symbols, beatification, visual representation of human thought and feelings,
deity of worship, means of recording events, teaching aids/instructional
materials ,means of illustrating objects etc. "Every child is an ARTIST,
but the problem is how to develop it when he grows" (Pablo Picasso). In
this case, ART should be made very important like English language and
Mathematics in our society, because it aids other subjects to function. For example,
Engineers can,t manufacture without drawing first. ART should be placed in the
first position. A lot of people don't speak English but they can’t do without
ART. Even GOD himself is an ARTIST. In the Holy Bible, there are proofs that
GOD made man from clay. The Holy Quran (15 V 26) also said "And indeed, we
created man from sounding clay of altered black smooth mud”. There are lots of
chapters that proved this in the Holy Quran. Making objects with clay is Sculpture,
which is an aspect of ART. Our ALMIGHTY GOD, who made use of clay in the
creation of human beings tells that GOD himself is an ARTIST. So, if GOD is
also an ARTIST, why should ART not come before others, if GOD was before
everyone and everything?
Al-maroof Olusegun Nuh
Oxbridge
Tutorial College
Lagos,Nigeria
It is
primarily a bank of knowledge concerning the human society and its existence.
Art Education keeps sustaining and servicing the humanity. Art Education is a
means of educating the posterity. Without art education the future generations
will hardly understand their cultural background in terms of all aspects of
human endeavors.
Bello Usman Amsami
Universitiy
of Maiduguri
Maiduguri, Nigeria
Art broadens
the reasoning capacity of individuals (i.e they can think outside the box).
It serves as
sure means of generating income.
It is a
means of documenting the customs and traditions of a people.
It is a
medium for improving environmental aesthetics.
It serves as
a major medium of universal communication.
Learning is
reinforced through art.
Abell Kennedy Modupe
Louisville
Girls High School
Ijebu Ode, Nigeria
Art
exhibition primarily provides knowledge in terms of teaching principles and
methodologies to specialist in studio courses. To enable them to be able to
teach properly. It provides psychology of understanding children at various
stages. It generally empower the student teacher to acquire skills of the
practice and imparting art courses at all levels of learning.
Art
Education is an epitome of applied and fine art. Applied art helps the booming
of industries while fine art support sustenance of the culture of the
profession.
Bello Usman Amsami
University
of Maiduguri
Maiduguri, Nigeria.
Art as
Bridge between the Society and their Culture is embedded with numerous values among
others it educates the Society in totality on their Cultural embodiments and
norms. It is also an avenue for creative adventures, unfortunately it is having
a regrettable neglect. Effort should be intensified on Renaissance of Art
education in our Schools and Society.
Agboola Musiliu Goriola Mr.
Lagos State
Ministry of Education, District V Lagos.
Lagos Nigeria
Its enlighten the public on current
issues It tells us more about the culture and African heritage It is also used
as instrument to correct the hills of the society
Oluwaseun Isaac Abati
Kenyatta University
Kenya
To intensify
cultural diversity.
Art is the
key to future.
Alfonso Haodom
Kuisebmond
Primary School
Walvis Bay, Namibia
There is no doubt that art has been
a fabric of the society since the period of creation. From the foregoing, this
makes for an easy allusion to the fact that the mode or system of knowledge
transfer of art, as we know it as Art Education today, is an inseparable part
of our existence. If that further transcends to the value of that branch of
human endeavor, then the values of Art Education are explicit in the following;
1. It is an avenue to pave the way for the transmission of knowledge about societal
factors to sustain life and confront fundamental threats to existence. 2. It is
an Ingredients of intervention to societal challenges. 3. A medium through
which the development of the society can be fostered in terms of the
sustainability of culture and enhancement of the quest for technological
growth.
YUSUF A. AbdulRasaq
Department of Fine and Applied Arts,
Federal College of Education, Zaria.
Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria.
Art
Education promote our rich cultural Heritage through the display of culture in
Drama, Engaging in cultural music and production of Artworks for cultural revival.
It develops the child vocationally, Socially, Physically and mentally through
various activities in Drama, Fine Art and Music. The subject equips young
Nigerian with manipulative skills which would make them job creator and self-reliant,
students may pick a profession in fine Arts and become a professional Painter,
Graphic Designer or a craftsman producing weaving. Dyeing cloths or a
photographer. They may also become professional Musicians, Practicing
Dramatists or Vistual Artists.
Suluka Abedeen Babatunde
Michael
Otedola College of Primary Education. Noforija Epe. Lagos.
Lagos. Nigeria
I've always
define Arts as father of all subjects. It cuts across all works of life. It
enhances and supports child education. No technology or engineering can do
without Art. They passed through Art (Artists) table before implementation. All
human wear clothes, for social or covering nudity. Our environments all define
Art: road signs, bill boards, van advert... The list is no doubt long. The
value and importance of Art in the society cannot be over emphasis as subject
that cannot be done with. We should gallantly stand out to defend the posterity
of Art from extinction.
Ayeni Pius Oluwagbotemi
RACY &
STURDY COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOY
LAGOS, NIGERIA
The value
and importance of art education cannot be over emphasized. They are many. This
is because art encompass the day to day of human existence and activities.
Art
education is a must for all so as to ensure even development of man's body,
spirit and soul.
Adewunmi A. Samuel
University of
Ado-Ekiti
Lagos, Nigeria.
Aesthetic
impact, comprehensive and details to work of art in dimension / proportion.
Classical and professional influence in working space. It enhances the social
influence in visual and performing art.
Oluseyi OYENUKAN
Auchi
polytechnic and University of Lagos, Akoka.
Lagos, Nigeria.
Art appreciation dissemination
Peter Ighodaro
Yaba college of Technology
Lagos Nigeria
For personal development and the
growth of the society. It's all about making the world (starting from our
immediate communities) a better place to live for our generation and generation
next.
Babasehinde Ademuleya
Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife
Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Why is
patronage for art seriously dwindling? Teaching of art is not made to be
effective from elementary school stage.
Idowu Olatunji
Tai Solarin
University of Education
Ijagun, Ijebu Ode
Art
Education fosters creativity in the child. It also enhances the child's
understanding and interaction with his environment through observation and
exploration. It develops the emotional strength of the child when he has
concentrate on a project and finish it and when he has to make multiple
adjustment on a project just to make sure he comes up with his best. The
benefits are too numerous for the space provided.
However,
what we teach in Nigerian curriculum is more of art theory. There's very little
time for students to practicalize what they are taught in the theory class.
There are too much theory, more especially the history topics. If the curriculum
implementer are involved in planning the curriculum, I think the case may be
different.
Onyekachi Anthony Nze
FUTO
International School
Owerri, Nigeria
The importance of art can't be
overemphasis, Arts are tools for social and economic well-being of the society.
Yaqub Kayode luqman
Ahmadu Bello University, zaria
Abuja, Nigeria
Art provides the children with balanced education. Art is a veritable
tool to harness creativity of a child. Creativity is very important in our
world today and art provide a platform for a child to develop the skill. It fuels imagination and helps to produce dynamic and
talented individuals our economy needs.
The
importance of Art to children’s educational development is briefly highlighted
below:
I.
Brain research confirms that Arts education strengthens
student problem-solving and critical thinking skills, adding to overall
academic achievement, school success, and preparation for the work world.
II.
Art classes
provide students a chance to develop cognitive and creative skills, and to
develop their imaginations.
III.
The arts teach our students to be more tolerant and
open through multicultural and historical perspectives and through their
involvement in the creative process itself.
IV.
Art is another way of thinking and using the brain. It
contributes to developing creativity - not just the crayon and paper type of
art - but it transfers to other subjects in solving problems and using higher critical thinking skills. It is also building motor
skills and social skills.
V.
Stimulates and develops the imagination and critical
thinking, and refines cognitive and creative skills.
VI.
Has a tremendous impact on the developmental growth of
every child and has proven to help level the "learning field" across
socio-economic boundaries.
VII.
Strengthens problem-solving and critical-thinking
skills, adding to overall academic achievement and school success.
VIII.
Develops a sense of craftsmanship, quality task
performance, and goal-setting—skills needed to succeed in the classroom and
beyond.
IX.
Teaches children life skills such as developing an
informed perception; articulating a vision; learning to solve problems and make
decisions; building self-confidence and self-discipline; developing the ability
to imagine what might be; and accepting responsibility to complete tasks from
start to finish.
X.
Nurtures important values, including team-building
skills; respecting alternative viewpoints; and appreciating and being aware of
different cultures and traditions.
XI.
It's been proven that early exposure to visual art,
music, or drama promotes activity in the brain.
XII.
Art helps children understand other subjects much more
clearly—from math and science, to language arts and geography.
XIII.
Art nurtures inventiveness as it engages children in a
process that aids in the development of self-esteem, self-discipline,
cooperation, and self-motivation.
XIV.
Participating in art activities helps children to gain
the tools necessary for understanding human experience, adapting to and
respecting others' ways of working and thinking, developing creative
problem-solving skills, and communicating thoughts and ideas in a variety of
ways.
Olusegun Adeniyi
Caleb British International School
Lagos, Nigeria
