Art Integration and Cognitive Development

Art Integration and Cognitive Development

The arts have long been valued for their aesthetic contributions to education, and studies have been conducted to demonstrate their contribution to academic performance in an attempt to justify their inclusion in the curriculum. Art integration involves learning core content subjects (math, reading, language, science, social studies) through the arts (drama, dance, music, visual arts). The focu...

Knowledge and cognitive integration

Cognitive integration is a defining yet overlooked feature of our intellect that may nevertheless have substantial effects on the process of knowledge-acquisition. To bring those effects to the fore, I explore the topic of cognitive integration both from the perspective of virtue reliabilism within externalist epistemology and the perspective of extended cognition within externalist philosophy ...

Bilateral art: facilitating systemic integration and balance

Art therapy has typically focused on issues associated with the human need for creative experience— art as therapy—and the power of art as a form of expression—art in therapy (Cane, 1951; Rubin, 2001). Marriage and family therapists argue that many of the difficulties that present in therapy are best treated systemically, i.e., from the perspective of or in the presence of the family as a whole...

Cognitive development following ART: effect of choice of comparison group, confounding and mediating factors

BACKGROUND Epidemiological studies have examined the health of children born after assisted reproductive technology (ART), with contradictory results. In this article, we address the question 'Do singletons born after ART have a poorer cognitive developmental outcome at 3 years of age?' We assess the implications of using different comparison groups, and discuss appropriate analytical approache...

The Role ofPlay in Children's Cognitive and Language Development