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    What is the purpose and function of art? Art plays a large role in our everyday life. It has a heavy impact on our different cultures countries around the world. With the different countries there are different forms of art. These forms of art are some people lives. Some people enjoy art as a hobby; some make a living from art. It is just involved in so many of our daily lives. Art enhances our creativity. It also allows your curiosity explore. For the fact that art is so versatile everyone can learn

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    It may seem like a Liberal Arts degree is for someone who can understand the depth of it‚ but that is completely untrue. The flexibility It may seem like a Liberal Arts degree is for someone who can understand the depth of it‚ but that is completely untrue. The flexibility and use of a Liberal Arts degree is for everyone who is interested and is worth more than the loud politicians that wave them about so eagerly to raise their credibility which is why Sanford J. Ungar‚ former president of Goucher

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    For our formal writing project‚ we not only need to analyze one of the articles that we choose from‚ but must also consider a specific focus that can help bring our writing project to a more academic style of writing. So what sort of focus should we use when writing our project? Well first and most importantly we need to ask ourselves this: is the focus we are going to be discussing of any importance‚ and can you back it up with relevant evidence? In

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    people have and majors that people choose. In the first essay “The New Liberal Arts” by Sanford J Ungar‚ argues that a liberal education is not what students should look for. He found seven misconceptions and then argued against them. The next essay “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff‚ states the misconceptions of people that are called “nerds” or “smart” are the ones who strive for intellectualism. These misconceptions of education and intellectualism affects the society and how they choose their

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    the view of the principle to integrate the arts‚ as they felt appropriate (Russell-Bowie‚ 2012). After a large amount of scrutiny the arts strand was included during the second phase of the curriculum (Russell-Bowie‚ 2012; ACARA‚ 2013). Aland (1999) highlights the fact that what is assessed in the classroom is what the teacher‚ the school and the community‚ value. Within present and future classrooms it is a teacher’s responsibility to integrate the five arts subjects into the already busy curriculum

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    of a Liberal Education‚” written in 1997‚ explained how university education have changed. Then the focus was to cater to the consumers rather than challenge them similar to how it is today. Professors made their courses more appealing and interesting to gain good evaluations‚ rather than making their courses rigorous to prepare students for the real world. Even though Edmundson described how university education was in 1997‚ there is a similar characteristic in today’s university education‚ teacher

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    Benefits of Art Education

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    Steps to Art Early Childhood Arts Education Initiative Fact Sheet About the Benefits of Arts Education for Children Benefits of Arts Education Source: Americans for the Arts‚ 2002 * Stimulates and develops the imagination and critical thinking‚ and refines cognitive and creative skills. * Has a tremendous impact on the developmental growth of every child and has proven to help level the "learning field" across socio-economic boundaries. * Strengthens problem-solving and critical-thinking

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    The Fine Arts Education

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    The Fine Arts is all around you on a daily basis. We’ve adapted to the musical sound all around us that sometimes we don’t realize there is a song playing. Now the term music can be defined in many different ways. Anywhere from different styles of music to different time periods of music like Jazz or Classical Rock. Art programs are able to reach students that are not normally reached and also increase better attendance and grades among the students. "In 1995‚ SAT scores for students who studied

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    Arts Education Importance

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    I believe that Arts education is an important part of every student’s education for many reasons. If it were up to me I would make art and/or music a one semester class or if students wanted too‚ a full year mandatory class and is required for you to graduate high school. In elementary schools‚ art or music was a fun class with no homework and easy assignments; I didn’t know anyone who didn’t like those classes. Having to take these classes again in high school would be a good thing for most students

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    IMPORTANCE of ART EDUCATION Have you ever thought why we send children to school? Why is education necessary? Firstly‚ schools provide children with cultural values that vary in every culture and that are necessary to become a good citizen. Also‚ schools upskill children and prepare them for a job related to their areas of interest. Finally‚ perhaps the most important function of schools is to teach children how to be better human beings. One of the important parts of education is art including music

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