Artistic and

Creative Literacy
CHAPTER 7
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 Creativity is now as important in
education as literacy
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― Ken Robinson
 LEARNING
OBJECTIVES:
🟊 At the end of this chapter we should be able to:
● Characterize artistic literacy
● Discuss the value of arts to education and practical life;
● Identify approaches to developing/designing curriculum that cultivates the arts and
creativity among learners; and
● Design creative and innovative classroom activities for specific topic and grade level of
students.
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 ARTISTIC LITERACY
is the knowledge and understanding required to participate. Authentically in the arts. While
individuals can learn about dance, media, music, theatre, and visual arts through reading print
texts, artistic literacy requires that they.
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 Did you know?
That researchers have recognized that there are significant
benefits of arts learning and engagement in schooling?
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 The flexibility of the forms comprising arts
positions students to embody range of a literate
practices to:
● Use their minds in verbal and nonverbal ways

● Communicate complex ideas a variety of forms;

● Understand words, sounds or images;

● Imagine new possibilities; and

● Persevere to reach goals and make them happen.

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 Elliot Eisner posited valuable lessons or benefits
that education can learn from arts and he
summarized into eights as it follows:
1. Form and content cannot be separated

2. Everything interacts: there is no content without form and no form without content

3. Nuance matters. To the extent to which teaching is an art, attention to nuance is

critical
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 4. Surprise is not seen as an intruder in the process of inquiry but as a part of rewards
one reaps when working artistically

5. Slowing down reception is the most promising way to see what is actually there

6. The limits of a language are not the limits of cognition. We know more than we can
tell

7. Somatic experience is one of the most important indicators that someone has gotten
it right

8. Open-ended tasks permit the exercise of imagination, and an exercise of the

imagination is one of the most important of human aptitudes.
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 Characteristizing Artistically
Literate Individuals
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 Common traits of artistically literate individuals:

● Use a variety of artistic media, symbols, and metaphors to communicate their own ideas
and respond to the artistic communication of others
● Develop creative personal realization in at least one art of form in which they continue
active involvement as an adult;
● Cultivate culture, history, and other connections through diverse forms and genres of
artwork;
● Find joy, inspiration, peace, intellectual stimulation, and meaning when they participate
in arts; and
● Seek artistic experiences and support the arts in their communities.
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 Issues in Teaching Creativity
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 Robinson challenged educators
to:
Educate the well-being of teachers and shift from the conventional learnings
toward academic ability alone

Give equal weight to the arts of humanities, and to the physical education;

Facilitate learning and work toward stimulating curiosity among learners;

Awaken and develop powers creativity among learners; and

View intelligence as diverse, dynamic, and distinct, contrary to common belief

that it should be academic ability-geared.
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 First literacies: Art, Creativity,
Play, Constructive Meaning-
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Making
 What are the fouressential
components to developing or
designing curriculum that cultivates
students’ artistic and creative
literacy?
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 Imagination and pretense,
fantasy and metaphor

Active menu to meaning-

making

Intentional,holistic
teaching

Co-player, co-artist
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 Thank you!
Do you have any questions?
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