What an entertaining snipit of inspiration. Watching Ken Robinson express the idea that Art and play are so important in everyday life. The thought that our world needs to change its approach to educating our young and that "creativity in education in arts and play could be beneficial in relation to the disengaged and disenfranchised" brings my thoughts into the classroom. Many students are disengaged particularly boys. I feel blessed that I can provide creative, fun activities for students in the art room however, given the lack of time to introduce art that builds relationships with students and finding art activities that spark an instant engaging reaction, weighs heavy on those, including myself, when trying to explore solution for a better outcome.
I may feel blessed to be in the art room but unfortunately this is not shared with most as they feel its a place for relief from learning and don't see the point in making art as, "they don't want to become an artist" and ask for free drawing. In an ideal world I'd love to see team teaching in other subjects where students are making and creating and discovering themselves developing skills guided by the Art/Drama/Music/Dance teacher and exploring English/Math/History/etc with the classroom teacher.
The ideas are being publicly express more today than ever and hopefully these academics can shape a solution in the near future. All I can do is to listen to the students and together we may find up to date ideas to play with and explore that will suit the requirements.
A visit to www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
it's worth it.
while on TED I found more inspirational talks by others.
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