Art Integration in Indian Classrooms: An Exploration of the Understanding, Perceptions and Practices Among Educators

Conference: The IAFOR Conference on Educational Research & Innovation (ERI2022)
Title: Art Integration in Indian Classrooms: An Exploration of the Understanding, Perceptions and Practices Among Educators
Stream: Creativity and Arts-based Education
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
Authors:
Pramodkumar Mpm, Christ (Deemed to Be University), India
Rajvi Trivedi, Christ (Deemed to Be University), India

Abstract:

Arts integrated education can help students grow in the cognitive, social as well as the affective domains. Sufficient research emphasizes that integrating art into the classrooms is linked with better learning outcomes for students and it also promotes the development of crucial 21st century skills (Lajevic, 2013; Barton, 2015; Moss et al., 2018; Corbisiero-Drakos et al., 2021). The official National Education Policy (2020) reiterates the significance of integrating Indian arts into the different stages of teaching and learning process for holistic growth of students. Given the importance of art integration as a pedagogy, the researchers explore the educators’ understanding and perceptions, and the practices they adopt to provide arts-integrated education. The researchers employ qualitative design for the study and use structured interviews to collect data from the educators. The sample of the study includes thirty educators belonging to three prevalent boards of education in India- CBSE, ICSE and IB. The qualitative data analysis will be conducted based on the framework method as explained by Gale et al. (2013). The study will contribute to the ongoing discourse on how arts integration as a pedagogy is perceived and practiced by educators. The study will highlight educator preparedness for providing art integrated education and thus have implications for pedagogy, curricula and teacher education, especially in India. While innovative pedagogies are gaining increasing attention in the field of educational research, the researchers urge for further research that helps in developing and promoting arts integrated education as one of the impactful pedagogies.

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