Keys to Approach Arts Education in the Educational System: Education “through” the Arts and Education “for” an Art

• Main Author: José M. Touriñán López
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Navarra 2011-12-01
• Series: Estudios sobre Educación
• Subjects: Educación Artística; Educación General; Educación en Valores; Fines de Educación.
• Online Access: https://www.unav.edu/publicaciones/revistas/index.php/estudios-sobre-educacion/article/view/4422

We have to study arts education from the perspective of education, without taking away the specific perspective of artistic products. The goal of this paper is to help form criteria about arts education in the general sense of understanding arts as a field of education. This pedagogical perspective demands looking carefully at the area of arts education and it means we have to keep a clear commitment to the educational values of art experience in their several forms of expression. To develop arts as field of education requires understanding and distinguishing three possible ways for considering the interactions between arts and education : 1) Arts as a general area of education; 2) Arts as an area of general education, 3) Arts as a vocational and professional development area