A webinar on arts-integrated education, hosted by FeviCreate Idea Labs and Hindu Education Plus highlighted the importance of effectively bringing art and creativity into the Indian education system and its impact on learning.
“There is something about art that prompts us to learn and remember better. For example, we tend to remember songs we learned in preschool instead of physics concepts from class 9,” said Arundhati Ghosh, executive Making a case for integrating arts and education, the director, India Foundation for the Arts, said.
Gautam Suri, President, Consumer Products, Pidilite Industries Ltd, emphasized on how learning should be fun for children in a sustainable way. “It is important to bring in creativity, to formulate it in accessible ways and to help children learn academic concepts creatively,” he said.
He further attributed the difficulty of integrating the arts into the Indian education system for the society being fundamentally marks-based. “Perhaps this is the reason why arts-based education will take time to develop. It has to take concerted efforts of the government, education institutions, employers to come together and create an ecosystem,” he said.
Rajesh Mahajan, principal of Jana Gana Mana English Secondary School, Dombivli, said that some of the great discoveries of science include art. “It requires imagination and creativity—often, the subject is learned through drawings and models.”
The session was moderated by Deputy Editor Soma Basu. Hindu, Webinars can be viewed online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw6GdoPyC4A
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