Fine Arts

Fine Arts constitute a fundamental component of basic education whose primary purpose in the schools is to develop intuition, reasoning, imagination, and dexterity into unique forms of expression and communication. Arts education benefits both student and society. It benefits students because it cultivates the whole child, gradually building many kinds of literacy. This process requires not merely an active mind but a trained one. Arts education also helps students by initiating them into a variety of ways of perceiving and thinking.

The arts cultivate the direct experience of the senses; they trust the unmediated flash of insight as a legitimate source of knowledge. Their goal is to connect student and experience directly, to build the bridge between verbal and nonverbal, between the strictly logical and the emotional - the better to gain an understanding of the whole. Both approaches are powerful and both are necessary; to deny students either is to disable them.

Categories  
CA - Communication Arts SS - Social Studies
SC - Science FA - Fine Arts
MA - Mathematics  

 

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Curriculum Categories
A Sewer Runs Through It SS FA CA MA SC
You Are Here SS FA CA MA SC
I Love Jazz! SS FA CA
HEC-TV Live! FA CA
State of the Arts FA CA
Hana's Suitcase SS FA CA
Collective Improvisation: Jazz in St. Louis SS FA CA
Josephine Baker: More Than a Banana Skirt SS FA CA
Wallace Herndon Smith: Artist Without Boundaries SS FA CA