Engage and Persist: Students are taught to engage in a project, focus on a task for a sustained period of time and persist with their work.Develop Craft: As a result of participating in art class, students acquire the skills or techniques needed to work with various media.Key Findings:ĭata analysis resulted in the identification of eight studio habits of mind: The researchers then posit that additional research needs to be done to determine if the studio habits of mind identified in this study are transferrable to other non-art learning domains, setting the groundwork for future research on arts and academic transfer. Hypotheses are offered for how these skills may be important in a wide range of disciplines aside from the visual arts. This study examined visual arts learning at two Boston schools, identifying eight skills or “studio habits of mind” that were present. The researchers conclude that before transfer between arts and non-arts can be proven, the learning that occurs from arts learning must first be understood. This study first provides an overview of prior meta-analytical research about the notion of transfer between arts learning and non-arts domains, concluding that with only few exceptions, transfer could not be proved because existing studies yield insufficient evidence. New directions in aesthetics, creativity, and the arts, 189-205. Studio thinking: How visual arts teaching can promote disciplined habits of mind. Studio Habits of Mind from Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education, Hetland, Winner, et al, Teachers College Press, 2007.Winner, E., Hetland, L., Veenema, S., Sheridan, K., Palmer, P., Locher, I., et al. Arts is in parenthesis here as it can easily be switched with other disciplines, like science or history. Understand (Arts) Community: Learning to interact as an artist with other artists (i.e., in classrooms, in local arts organizations, and across the art field) and within the broader society. Stretch & Explore: Learning to reach beyond one’s capacities, to explore playfully without a preconceived plan, and to embrace the opportunity to learn from mistakes.Ĩ. Reflect: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process, and learning to judge one’s own work and working process and the work of others.ħ. Observe: Learning to attend to visual contexts more closely than ordinary “looking” requires, and thereby to see things that otherwise might not be seen.Ħ. Express: Learning to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning.ĥ. Envision: Learning to picture mentally what cannot be directly observed, and imagine possible next steps in making a piece.Ĥ. Engage & Persist: Learning to embrace problems of relevance within the art world and/or of personal importance, to develop focus conducive to working and persevering at tasks.ģ. Develop Craft: Learning to use tools, materials, artistic conventions and learning to care for tools, materials, and space.Ģ. They are not hierarchical, and they can be used in guided instruction or constructivist teaching modalities.ġ. Studio Habits of Mind (SHoM) empower students to articulate their learning in any subject matter, and provide an entry point for learning based on individual choice and need. Library/Media Specialist & Academic Enrichment
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