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week_one_assignment__final.docxRunning head: TEACHING ARTS AND HUMANITIES TO CHILDREN 1
TEACHING ARTS AND HUMANITIES TO CHILDREN 2
Premise 1: Teaching children arts and humanities help develop interpersonal interactions by integrating control and responsiveness.
Premise 2: These creative programs enhance children’s learning abilities.
Premise 3: Children who learn arts and humanities are significantly less likely than nonparticipants to drop out of school.
Premise 4: Ancient Greeks taught art and humanities to educate their citizens and teach them about other civilizations.
Conclusion: Therefore, teaching arts and humanities to our youth is necessary for their personal growth.
The first premise is widespread recognition that experience in the arts at a young age enhances children's social and emotional development. This review takes place in inner city elementary schools by teachers who partook in a program called artist-in-residence. This program specifically focused on arts experiences, particularly drama. The idea was to enhance the response and understanding of the emotional responses, expressions, and actions of others. (Brouillette, 2010)
The second premise is grounded on a program that was launched by the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. The program is an early childhood arts program; that incorporates learning Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics through the study of Arts. The Institute has been using the arts successfully to teach these studies since 1981. These studies include storytelling, music, movement and drama to enhance language in preschool and kindergarten age children. The Wolf Trap is taking a national leadership role by bringing education and the arts together by infusing creativity and high-quality into early childhood development. Studies show that U.S. students are falling behind other countries in math and sciences and that high-quality early childhood education plays a critical role in ensuring a prosperous future for our children. (Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts)
The third premise is founded on a study that suggested that students who participate extra activities for instance orchestra, chorus or band are less likely than students who are not involved in these activities to become arrested, use drugs, or drop out of school. The same study also suggested that the youth of today spend less time in afterschool activities, therefore are deprived of their benefits. This could be from lack of extracurricular activity funding that schools are experiencing or lack of extra money that the family has to contribute to some of these services that need to be paid for by the family. (Eric, n.d)
The fourth premise is widely known that the ancient Greeks taught the arts and humanities to their citizens by way of plays, poetry, pottery, music, sculpture, paintings, and theater.
This argument is deductively valid. All of my premises are true and thus can be proven by statistics or studies. All of my premises are linked to my conclusion that teaching arts and humanities to the children helps give them an important head start in the learning process.
References
ERIC - School Dropout Prevention: What Arts-Based ... (n.d.). Retrieved from http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ963992
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts; wolf trap celebrates arts in education week with the launch of first-of-its-kind early childhood STEM learning through the arts initiative. (2010). Education Letter, 138. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/750551641?accountid=32521
