Arts Education includes four separate and
distinct disciplines: dance, music, theatre arts and visual arts -
each with its own body of knowledge and skills. The intent of the
National Standards for Arts Education along with the standard
courses of study in dance, music, theatre arts and visual arts is
that a comprehensive understanding of one or more of the arts be
accomplished by each student throughout the K-12 program. Arts
education benefits both student and society. Involving the "whole
child" in the arts gradually teaches many types of literacy while
developing intuition, sensitivity, reasoning, imagination, and
dexterity. Arts education helps students perceive and think in new
ways. The arts also help provide and extend meaning (NCSCS, 2000).
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