Arts Integration On Long-Term Retention Of Academic Content

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skills, such as the integration of arts and history where one can use an ancestral object and perform a drama to develop the confidence to utilise the acquired skills within the classroom settings (Davies, 2009).
In the article ‘What is the Role of Art in the Primary School’ they believe the role of arts education in the primary school is to shape teachers perceived competences in the teaching of arts whereas others believe that art partnerships between schools and the arts community will foster artist-teacher collaboration to represent a significant approach to arts education. if teachers have a passion for arts and their theory is based on self-efficacy then it’s very simple for them to collaborate art education in the classroom. However, if the teachers have a weak self efficacy for the arts education they are less likely to teach the arts across the five strands because self efficacy theory is one which emphasize on the behavioural attitude to …show more content…

Their focus looked at more music and visual arts embedded into units instructions of Science while using the five “E” cycle; Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate ensuring that the art integrated activities matched the non art integrated activity. In addition, the use of music integration as it relates to education in the classroom, it increases the attention levels, improves retention and memory and extend the learning time by providing opportunities for the expansion of thinking skills pertinent to any core subject area (Zhou & Brown,