Value of Drawing Instruction in the Visual Arts and Across Curricula

<p>By applying philosophical and historical perspectives to drawing instruction this volume demonstrates how diverse teaching methods contribute to cognitive and holistic development applicable within and beyond the visual arts.</p><p>Offering a new perspective on the art and science of drawing this text reveals the often-unrecognized benefits that drawing can have on the human mind and thus argues for the importance of drawing instruction despite and even due to contemporary digitalization. Given the predominance of visual information and digital media visual thinking in and through drawing may be an essential skill for the future. As such the book counters recent declines in drawing instruction to propose five Paradigms for teaching drawing – as design as seeing as experience and experiment as expression and as a visual language – with exemplary curricula for pre-K12 art and general education pre-professional programs across the visual arts and continuing education. With the aid of instructional examples this volume dispels the misconception of drawing as a talent reserved for the artistically gifted and posits it as a teachable skill that can be learned by all.</p><p>This text will be of primary interest to researchers scholars and doctoral students with interests in drawing theory and practice cognition in the arts positive psychology creativity theory as well as the philosophy and history of arts education. Aligning with contemporary trends such as Design Thinking STEAM and Graphicacy the text will also have appeal to visual arts educators at all levels and other educators involved in arts integration.</p>