Brain hemisphericity in art and non-art elective students (express) and implications for curriculum

• Main Author: Lee, Jean Say Ying.
• Other Authors: Yeap, Lay Leng
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Education
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14062
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The visual arts offer the child the opportunity to develop creative and intuitive approaches to problem solving and provide a balance to the child's school programme with its emphasis on science and mathematics. Earlier national focus on building a unified system of education for all races and on responding to economic pressures of a fledging independent nation in the 1960s, has given way to the development of thinking skills and the nurturing of creativity and a society appreciative of the arts and culture. Paradigms have to be changed. Schools have to re-examine their goals as students have to learn not only how to think but how to think critically and creatively and to be appreciative of the arts.