NAB: Thinking Skills Education
New Art Basics considers that the most basic aspect of the art discipline is the internal technology of the way humans use their mental abilities in the artistic acts of creative production and the critically appreciative acts of understanding and appreciating visual communication.
Thinking skills education is a solid foundation that has the potential to:
Demonstrate that visual thinking, communication, and problem solving are basic learning tools, for a lifetime, for all humans
Show that behind every art object is a complex set of thinking skills that leads to knowledge, through visual cognition
Develop student's abilities for effective expression and communication through visual language.
Brain-based Visual Thinking Skills
NAB strives to base instruction on the latest knowledge of the brain generated by psychology and neuropsychology.
NAB asks educators to plan their teaching strategies based on complex relational thinking that includes content that is both deep and meaningful in artistic content and personally authentic for students.
NAB supports HOTS education generally, as well as its specific application within the art field.
NAB encourages art teachers to plan instruction that goes beyond an exclusively Euro-centric, high art approach and presents artistic thought as a universal human endeavor with an appreciation for the rich diversity of individual experience.
Presented as a set of complex thinking skills art education has a valid claim to providing students with the learning tools necessary for a lifetime of success in fields as diverse as: science, engineering, industrial and environmental design, and entrepreneurial business, as well as in artistic pursuits.
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