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ERIC Number: EJ575227
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
Art for the Brain's Sake.
Sylwester, Robert
Educational Leadership, v56 n3 p31-35 Nov 1998
From fine-tuning muscular systems to integrating emotion and logic, the arts have important biological value. Motion and emotion are central to the arts and life itself. It is counterproductive to promote high performance standards while displacing skill development with computer technologies and reducing arts programs that move students from basic to advanced levels. (MLH)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Attention Span, Brain, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Experience, Movement Education, Psychomotor Skills, Skill Development
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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