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E-Steam-Ed Individuals: The Significance Of Art In Ste(A)M, Kristen Feigel
E-Steam-Ed Individuals: The Significance Of Art In Ste(A)M, Kristen Feigel
Goal 4: Intrapersonal Intelligence Narrative
Purpose: To expose students gifted with academic and/or STEM proficiency to the benefits of Art in their education and daily lives. To offer students opportunities to try different types of art to encourage creativity and different ways of thinking.
The Relationship Between Creative Hobbies And Visual Spatial Ability, Victoria Alexander
The Relationship Between Creative Hobbies And Visual Spatial Ability, Victoria Alexander
Honors Undergraduate Theses
Recent developments in educational practices have identified the teaching of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) areas as important, but this emphasis on STEM fields has sacrificed educational focus on the Arts (Cohen, 2016). This is a significant loss, not only in terms of the loss of humanities education in itself, but through the potential loss of foundational skills through practice in artistic areas. The current paper explores this idea by investigating the correlational relationship between visual spatial abilities and participation in a variety of creative activities. Spatial ability is known to be a cognitive skill that underlies success in …