A Homeschooling Thespian

Ten Lessons the Arts Teach HT to Elliot Eisner for putting together this list of reasons of what our children are really learning when we expose them to the arts. If you have time you can read the entire presentation here: 1) The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail. 2) The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer. 3) The arts celebrate multiple perspectives . One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world. 4) The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity . Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds. 5) The arts make vivid the...