Art in Early Education (Article Sample)

Art in Early Education
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Article 1
In the article "Integrating the Arts into Head Start Classrooms Produces Positive Impacts on Kindergarten Readiness," Mary Lou Greenea and Shlomo Sawilowsky (2018) seek to explore the positive impacts of Living Arts Detroit Wolf Trap, a program to integrate performing arts, in the kindergarten classes. A comparison was made between 406 students who did not participate in these art classes and 426 students who took part in them. The authors concluded that the first year impact was equal to learning for 1.3 months. The impact on second years was equivalent to over 1.7 months. The two most notable improvements were in terms of literary and social-cum-emotional skills. The former include efficiency in learning language such as reading, writing, analyzing, and speaking. Social emotional learning refers to managing feelings, set greater goals, gaining empathy, and building nicer relationship. Therefore, it is pertinent to incorporate performing arts in the early childhood education.
Article 2
The article “The Arts Make a Difference” by Nick Rabkin and Robin Redmond is directed to explore the benefits of early art classes. Many researches show that American students are academically falling behind the other advanced countries because of poor kindergarten education. Students are taught only curriculum books, which is hampering their intellectual achievements. A study conducted by National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 shows that integration of art classes gives better and diverse knowledge. Interestingly, low-income students learned many additional things through arts that are otherwise neglected. For instance, they learned to stay disciplined in class or wear school uniform. The paintings they made or they were instructed to make also inculcated social literacy and emotional earning. The k-8 students of Nick Jaffe begin the class by enjoying music. Although students do not know the exact use of musical instruments such as trumpet, sax solo, bass, or drums, they better learn about science topics such as movement of waves, interference, and electromagnetism. Further, children learn social skills as well as better emotional management. The teacher tells a story where one of his students who earlier was reserved, angry, and less interactive became highly social and courteous. Even in standardized tests, their scores improved considerably, especially of the poor students. Giving music classes, teaching them dance and photography, or letting them listen to music are easy forms of art integration that requires no advanced technology or hefty money.
Article 3
The article "The art of Head Start " by Brown et al. (2017) is directed to examine the advantages of integrating art classes to the children facing economic challenges. The authors begin by revealing that nearly 42% students globally live in poor economies. In most cases, they get substanda