Arts Education
Arts Education is presented under three subject headings: visual arts, drama and music .
Arts education enables the child to express ideas, feelings and experiences
in language, gesture and movement. Together with music and the visual arts, the
use of drama in the classroom encourages the child to express ideas that are
creative and explorative. The Arts Education curriculum explores pathways to
learning that involve reflection, imagination and sensitivity. Learning through
the arts facilitates the use of a range of intelligences.
Arts Education: Visual arts
Overview
The Visual arts curriculum consists of six strands. Each strand represents a
medium for developing the child's expressive abilities. These strands are:
Through these six strands, children explore the following seven visual elements when making, looking at, and responding to art: line, shape, form, colour and tone, pattern and rhythm, texture and spatial organisation. The Visual arts curriculum emphasises
three starting points for the child's art activities:
In the Visual arts curriculum, the child is encouraged to look at and respond
to a wide variety of artworks. It is through talking about these artworks that the child develops sensitivity to the visual elements, and begins to use them purposefully in his/her ownart-making. Of all the visual arts media, drawing has primary importance in the Visual arts curriculum, and it is through drawing that children's development in art is most evident. In making art, the process of making is as valuable as the final product.
Arts Education: Drama
Overview
Arts Education: Drama provides children with ways to explore our cultural
heritage and new dimensions of a changing world. Language plays a critical role
in drama. The Drama Curriculum contributes to developing the child's competence
and confidence in English, Irish and other languages.
Arts Education: Drama Curriculum
The Drama Curriculum includes just one strand. This strand is concerned with
using drama to explore feelings, knowledge and ideas, leading to understanding.
It includes three stand units. These are
Arts Education: Music arts
Overview
Arts Education: Music provides children with opportunities to engage with a
wide range of musical styles and traditions, to become involved in moving,
dancing, illustrating, story telling and making drama. The Music Curriculum
introduces children to music reading and writing, to song singing and to playing
classroom instruments.
Arts Education: Music Curriculum
The Music Curriculum has three strands:
The strands are interrelated and activity in one is dependent upon and
supportive of understanding in another.
Arts Education is presented under three subject headings: visual arts, drama and music .
Arts education enables the child to express ideas, feelings and experiences
in language, gesture and movement. Together with music and the visual arts, the
use of drama in the classroom encourages the child to express ideas that are
creative and explorative. The Arts Education curriculum explores pathways to
learning that involve reflection, imagination and sensitivity. Learning through
the arts facilitates the use of a range of intelligences.
Arts Education: Visual arts
Overview
The Visual arts curriculum consists of six strands. Each strand represents a
medium for developing the child's expressive abilities. These strands are:
- Drawing
- Paint and colour
- Clay
- Construction
- Fabric and fibre.
Through these six strands, children explore the following seven visual elements when making, looking at, and responding to art: line, shape, form, colour and tone, pattern and rhythm, texture and spatial organisation. The Visual arts curriculum emphasises
three starting points for the child's art activities:
- the child's own experience
- the child's imagination
- the child's observations.
In the Visual arts curriculum, the child is encouraged to look at and respond
to a wide variety of artworks. It is through talking about these artworks that the child develops sensitivity to the visual elements, and begins to use them purposefully in his/her ownart-making. Of all the visual arts media, drawing has primary importance in the Visual arts curriculum, and it is through drawing that children's development in art is most evident. In making art, the process of making is as valuable as the final product.
Arts Education: Drama
Overview
Arts Education: Drama provides children with ways to explore our cultural
heritage and new dimensions of a changing world. Language plays a critical role
in drama. The Drama Curriculum contributes to developing the child's competence
and confidence in English, Irish and other languages.
Arts Education: Drama Curriculum
The Drama Curriculum includes just one strand. This strand is concerned with
using drama to explore feelings, knowledge and ideas, leading to understanding.
It includes three stand units. These are
- Exploring and making drama
- Reflecting on drama
- Cooperating and communication in making drama.
Arts Education: Music arts
Overview
Arts Education: Music provides children with opportunities to engage with a
wide range of musical styles and traditions, to become involved in moving,
dancing, illustrating, story telling and making drama. The Music Curriculum
introduces children to music reading and writing, to song singing and to playing
classroom instruments.
Arts Education: Music Curriculum
The Music Curriculum has three strands:
- Listening and Responding
- Performing
- Composing.
The strands are interrelated and activity in one is dependent upon and
supportive of understanding in another.