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Relationship Among Demographic, Academic And Curriculum Characteristics, Emphasizing Arts Education And Critical Thinking Performance In 12th Grade High School Students, Leslie Rowntree Black
Relationship Among Demographic, Academic And Curriculum Characteristics, Emphasizing Arts Education And Critical Thinking Performance In 12th Grade High School Students, Leslie Rowntree Black
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The ability to think critically is an important condition for success in school and life. Promoting the development of critical thinking skills through arts education would have an impact on curriculum developments, specifically the utilization of study in the arts as a learning strategy and the revisiting of the purpose of arts education. Arts education has the unique capacity to teach children to think creatively, imaginatively, and critically, while also benefiting subject-specific curriculum (Deasy, 2002).
Eisner (2005) asserts that the arts are as essential to students' intellectual development as study in mathematics or the sciences. The purpose of this non-experimental, …