Due to the success of his presentation at the National Art Education Association Conference held in New York last April, Dr. Roger Tomhave's "A Whole New Art Education" based on the educational interpretation of the ideas put forth in Daniel Pink's book "A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age", has been presented at West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Virginia state art education conferences. Dr. Tomhave makes the case that it is time for arts education to insert it place at the forefront of education for the 21st century due to the skills of creativity, innovation, risk-taking, and higher order thinking skills that are deeply imbedded in high quality arts education. At the same time that No Child Left Behind legislation has led nationally to the narrowing of the curriculum to focus on mathematics and language arts, and while the curriculum is being dumbed-down to the lowest level of rote memorization of facts for use in standardized tests, business and industry are calling for the 21st century skills that are exemplified in an arts education.
A Whole New Art Education (powerpoint)
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