The Benefits of Play Based and Art Education in Kindergarten
Source: http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/ethicalinquiry/2010/august.html
Play-based and art-based education are beneficial to the young mind, which is already geared towards hands on learning and experimentation.
Play-based learning enhances the following skills:
- Impulse control
- Delay of gratification
- Taking turns
- Negotiate Conflict
- Empathy
- Enhances a deeper connection with their world
- Fosters inquiry and experimentation
- Learning from peers
- Respects the child as an individual
Art Education enhances the following skills:
- Creative thinking
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
- Aesthetic sensitivity
- Proper use of tools and techniques
- Multiple solutions to a problem
- Fosters inquiry and experimentation
- Teaches children that solutions can have a non-verbal answer
- Analytical thinking
- Multiple solutions to problems
- Analytical Thinking
- Individual