Benefits of Performing Arts Education
"Performing Arts Education is not about creating future artists. It's about enabling dream-making to happen in all students."
We recently came across a very interesting article by Adele Horin "Busy children shown to do better" that shows the linkage between children's participation in acting classes, dance lessons and/or singing lessons and the positive outcomes in schools, kid's emotional development and behaviour.
Research conducted by the University of Maryland shows that almost 60% of children aged from 9 to 12 led a balanced life with involvement in one or two activities, such as a music lesson or a drama class (Horin, 2008). Even those kids that could be called "over-scheduled" were doing very well. What's interesting is that kids not involved in any kid's activities were more socially immature and had a lower self-esteem (Horin, 2008).
According to the Report published by Australian Bureau of Statistics 42% of Australian kids aged 5 to 14 years participate in the organised after school activities, such as dance classes, singing, drama and playing musical instruments.
Research shows that these are some of the most important benefits of performing arts education:
- Acting classes inspire self-confidence, self discipline, and help kids in school
- Help kids develop critical skills for life and work
- Singing lessons improve students' performance in other subject areas
- Expose kids to a range of cultures and points of view
- Dance classes refine cognitive and creative skills
- Strengthen problem solving and critical thinking skills
- Dance lessons have a tremendous impact on the developmental growth of every child
- Drama tuition enhance intellectual, personal and social development
- Plays a central role in cognitive, motor, language and social emotional development
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