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Transcript of Playing with the arts: One route to 21st Century Skills Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D. Lefkowitz Professor...
““Playing” with the arts:Playing” with the arts:One route to 21st Century SkillsOne route to 21st Century Skills
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D.
Lefkowitz Professor of Psychology
Temple University
What do you see?
Just scribbles?
24 mo old 36 mo old 6 year old
Using a new lens:
24 mo old 36 mo old 6 year old
Fine motor control
intent symbolism narrative
Use of Space
What do you hear?Repeat after me
Using a new lens:
Time
Relations: high lowMath and division
1/2
What’s going on?
Just play?
Using a new lens
Narrativ
e
Language
Perspective taking
Planning and executive function
Potential social skills
The point?
• The arts and other playful engagement are…
QuickTime™ and a decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Pregnant with learning opportunities!
Scientific studies
• Demonstrate the relationship between the arts and…– Math (Deasy, 2002; Spelke, 2008))
– Social skills (Thomas, 2007)
– Symbolic representation– Increased attention (Posner,2008)
– Executive function (Jonidas, 2008)
– Divergent thinking (Ashbury & Rich, 2008)
For example, recent and ongoing neurological studies find
that…
– 21 year olds trained in music and acting have increased long term verbal memory. Learn better memorizing
strategies (Jonidas, 2008)
– musical training in underprivileged 3-5 year olds supports attentional skills and better spatial and math
outcomes (Neville et al., 2008)
– Musical training is related to second language learning (Petitto, 2008; also see Wong et al., 2007)
And playful learning is related to outcomes in…
• Literacy• Math• Spatial skills• Social skills• Executive function
Despite these facts..
• April 2009, A report from the Alliance for Childhood finds that in schools surveyed in NY and LA, 48% and 64% of classrooms respectively, reported there is not enough time to do any art.
• April 2009, NYTimes Headline: Julliard Curtails Program that serves poor children
• Elkind (2008) reports that children today have 8 hours less free play than they did a decade ago and 30,000 schools have dropped recess
The arts and playful learning also reinforce 21st Century skills
that go well beyond academic content and process
We are told that….
• We are leaving the information age, where getting the factoids was enough….
• We are entering a new era, a knowledge age in which information is doubling every 2.5 years.
• Integrating information and innovation is key.
And Daniel Pink (2005), author of A whole new mind wrote:
The past few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-- computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people -- artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers -- will now reap society’s richest rewards….
Finally, the Partnership for the 21st Century Skills echoed, (September 10, 2008)
In an economy driven by innovation and knowledge … in diverse workplaces and communities that hinge on collaborative relationships and social networking … the ingenuity, agility and skills of the American people are crucial to U.S. competitiveness.
21st Century Skills: Education and Competitiveness
Distilling from the business community, education and child psychology, we noted 6 key skills that children will need to be successful in the 21st
century……Hirsh-Pasek,Golinkoff, Berk & Singer, 2008
The 6Cs act in concert as a kind of dynamic system for renewable learning
In drama when you do a skit or a play, all of the 6Cs are developed!
In short:
Playing with the arts is a gateway to academic learning and is so much more. By putting content learning in its proper place within a systematic theory of the 6Cs we see how music, art, dance, and theater…. Prepare children to …
•Better understand the human condition
•Learn the academic and social content in an engaging and meaningful way
•Develop the skill set that is critical in the global world of tomorrow
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Thus, It is time to see arts education with a new lens