{"id":386,"date":"2014-09-29T15:18:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/?page_id=386"},"modified":"2014-10-03T22:48:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T02:48:58","slug":"ten-lessons-the-arts-teach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artinyourbackyard.ca\/?page_id=386","title":{"rendered":"Ten Lessons the Arts Teach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten Lessons the Arts Teach<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Elliot Eisner<\/p>\n

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\nThe arts teach children to make good judgments<\/strong> about qualitative
\nrelationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and
\nrules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.<\/p>\n

The arts teach children that problems<\/strong> can have more than
\none solution and that questions can have more than one
\nanswer.<\/p>\n

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.<\/strong> One of their large lessons is that
\nthere are many ways to see and interpret the world.<\/p>\n

The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem<\/strong>
\nsolving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with
\ncircumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires
\nthe ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated
\npossibilities of the work as it unfolds.<\/p>\n

The arts make vivid<\/strong> the fact that neither words in their literal form
\nnor number exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not
\ndefine the limits of our cognition.<\/p>\n

The arts teach students that small differences<\/strong> can have
\nlarge effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.<\/p>\n

The arts teach students to think through<\/strong> and within a material. All art
\nforms employ some means through which images become real.<\/p>\n

The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.<\/strong>
\nWhen children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps
\nthem feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the
\nwords that will do the job.<\/p>\n

The arts enable us to have experience<\/strong> we can have from no other
\nsource and through such experience to discover the range and variety of
\nwhat we are capable of feeling.<\/p>\n

The arts\u2019 position in the school<\/strong> curriculum symbolizes to
\nthe young what adults believe is important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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