ARTISTIC AND

CREATIVE
LITERACY
DANICA DELGADO
EIZZA CORDERO
BEEDII
OBJECTIVES
Define artistic and creative literacy.
Explain the value and benefits of arts
education.
Discuss strategies for fostering artistic
and creative literacy in learners.
 INTRODUCTION

This report explores artistic and creative literacy in

21st-century education. It defines these literacies,
highlights the benefits of arts integration, and
suggests pedagogical approaches to foster these
skills in learners
 I.Valuable Lesson or Benefits
of Arts to Education
ARTISTIC LITERACY
is the knowledge and understanding needed for authentic
participation in the arts.

This goes beyond reading about dance, media, music,

theater, and visual arts; it requires direct engagement in
artistic creation processes with materials in specific spaces.
Artistic literacy is understanding,
appreciating, and engaging with
diverse art forms.

It involves interpreting artistic

expressions and analyzing techniques.
 CREATIVE
LITERACY
interpreting and expressing meaning
through diverse creative forms.

Goes beyond traditional reading and

writing.
 CREATIVE
LITERACY
Involves critical thinking, imagination, and
problem-solving.

Enables effective and innovative communication

in a multimodal world.
Creative literacy fosters critical
thinking, problem-solving, and
innovation.

Engaging with creative expression

deepens understanding of the
world.
It helps individuals approach challenges
from different perspectives.

Cultivates adaptability and resilience,

crucial in today's society.
THE FLEXIBILITY Use their minds in
OF THE FORMS verbal and non verbal
COMPRISING THE ways;
ARTS POSITIONS Communicate complex
STUDENTS TO
ideas in a variety of
EMBODY A RANGE
forms;
OF LITERATE
Understand words,
PRACTICES TO:
sounds, or images;
THE FLEXIBILITY Imagine new
OF THE FORMS
possibilities; and
COMPRISING THE
ARTS POSITIONS
STUDENTS TO persevere to
EMBODY A RANGE reach goals and
OF LITERATE make them
PRACTICES TO: happen.
Eight valuable lessons or
benefits that education can
learn from arts -Elliot
Eisner
Form and content cannot be separated
Teaching methods, curriculum organization,
and school design influence student
learning.

Everything interacts
Content requires form, and form requires
content.
Nuance matters
Aesthetic quality is found in the details crafted
during creation.

Surprise is not to be seen as an intruder in the

process of inquiry.
Discovery and learning depend on surprise;
therefore, it should be cultivated, not avoided.
Slowing down perception.
Terms used to denote intelligence, such as
'swift' or 'bright,' often imply speed.

Limits of language are not the limits of

cognition.
Literacy means creating meaning in many ways,
not just with words.
Somatic experience.
Knowledge of the world is acquired through
embodied experiences, represented via multiple
forms of literacy.

Open-ended task permit the exercise of imagination

Open tasks encourage imagination,imagination
fuels new ideas,and education must value and
develop imagination.
II. Characterizing Artistically
Literate Individuals
Use various artistic media to express ideas.
Respond to others' art.
Actively develop creative personal realization in at least
one art form.
Cultivate cultural and historical connections through
diverse artworks.
Seek meaningful artistic experiences.
LITERATURE ON ARTS EDUCATION AND ART
STANDARDS IN EDUCATION CITED THE
FOLLOWINGS AS COMMON TRAITS OF
ARTISTICALLY LITERATE INDIVIDUALS:
Utilize diverse artistic media, symbols, and
metaphors for self-expression.

Develop creative personal realization in at

least one art form.

Maintain active involvement in that art form

as an adult.
Cultivate connections to culture, history, and
other areas through diverse art forms and
genres.

Find joy, inspiration, peace, intellectual

stimulation, and meaning in arts participation.

Seek artistic experiences and support the arts in

their communities.
 III.Issues in Teaching
Creativity
Sir Ken Robinson's TED Talks highlight how
education paradigms hinder creative development.
Schools stigmatize mistakes, discouraging original
ideas.
There's a subject hierarchy, with math and
languages prioritized over the arts.
 Academic ability dominates our view of
intelligence.
Curriculum, classroom experiences, and
assessment focus on academic development.
Students are educated primarily to pass
college entrance exams.
Because of this painful truth,
Robinson challenged educators
to:
Educate for the well-being of
learners, shifting away from a
sole focus on academic
ability.
Give equal weight to the arts,
humanities, and physical education.
Foster learning and curiosity.
Recognize diverse forms of
intelligence.
FIRST LITERACIES:ARTS,
CREATIVITY,PLAY CONDUCTIVE
MEANING-MAKING
In "First Literacies: Art, Creativity, Play,
Constructive Meaning - Making"
MacArdle and Wright asserted that
educators should make deliberate
connections with children's first literacies
of art and play.
A new early childhood pedagogy
would emphasize children's
embodied experience through
drawing.
The approach would focus on
children's creation, manipulation, and
transformation of meaning.
This would be achieved through:

Engaged interaction with art

materials (Dourish, 2001)
Physical, emotional, and social
immersion (Anderson, 2003)
The authors proposed four essential
components for developing curriculum
that cultivates students' artistic and
creative literacy.
These approaches actively encourage
the creative, constructive thinking
involved in meaning-making.
1. Imagination and pretense, fantasy
and metaphor
Creative curriculum supports play
for identity exploration, reality
transformation, narrative building,
and symbol mastery..
2. Active menu to meaning making
A classroom that allows children to
choose drawing, writing, painting, or
play based on their purpose and
mood fosters integrated literacy and
arts learning."
3. Intentional, holistic teaching
A creative curriculum requires a
creative teacher, who
understands the creative
processes, and purposefully
supports learners in their
experiences.
4. Co-player ,co-artist
Educators should recognize children as
current citizens with inherent
capacities.
This requires a shift from a directive,
knowledge-dispensing role to
collaborative exploration.
Educators should foster environments
where:
Children's ideas are valued.
Creativity is nurtured.
Voices are amplified through shared
experiences and artistic expression.
 SUMMARY
In summary, this report discusses the importance of artistic
and creative literacy in modern education. It explains what
these literacies are and their value for students. The report
also details the traits of artistically literate individuals, the
difficulties educators face in teaching creativity, and effective
teaching strategies to foster these skills, emphasizing active
participation, play, and recognizing children's abilities.