WHAT WAS LEARNED:

This week we learned about the ‘domain of aesthetics’, that writing is a form of drawing – but once writing is grasped, we shouldn’t discourage drawing as this is still an integral form of expression. We also learned that the arts were brought into the curriculum during the industrial revolution (as a hand-aye-coordination aid for future work in shipyards).

After the morning lecture, we had a music session where we created a group-work storyboard to accompany a tumultuous piece of instrumental music.

IMPACT ON MY VIEWS:

I already had a respect for the Arts, but this respect has grown into an understanding of both the importance of implementation within the curriculum and also the importance of each individual art form (as children may chose to express themselves in different ways, i.e. drawing, dancing, performance (musically)).

FURTHER ACTION:

I will read “Fleming (2012) The Arts in Education (an Introduction)” from the Moodle further reading and draw upon any further uses for the Arts that I can think of.

Fleming, M.(2012) The Arts in Education (an Introduction). [Online] Available: http://moodle.uws.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=686678 [Accessed: 20 September 2016].