Blog 18

Outline

Education/Child Development

• Using the study I found would help solidify the point that children need art to help them understand the world and develop their knowledge outside of just the “core” that adults set up for them.
  • Adding a picture from the study to help solidify the idea.
• Can use that to Segway into Yo-Yo Ma saying
  • The curriculum in schools ignore the fact that at the end of the day, the individuals that they are teaching are kids who are just trying to understand this world. Yo-Yo Ma, in his article Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education, talks about how “In our industrialized societies there is a great deal of controversy these days over what life is and when it begins and how we approach the agony of death which, in industrial society, we try to avoid thinking about it… the arts help us cope with these issues by engaging, not avoiding.”
  • I would go on to talk about how bringing this kind of upfront learning and using art to help the thoughts develop would be beneficial to the growing generations.
• I want to find a clear way to quote Lehrer and use either his or Yo-Yo Ma’s essay to Segway into the naysayer paragraph.

Naysayer paragraph with concluding sentence of:

• Art not only will help our newer generations become more well rounded individuals, it can help them cope with something that many children have to deal with nowadays, divorce.

Therapy

• Divorced Children: the repercussions that they face from having parents in divorce.
  • How art can help with the possible repercussions.
    • In Yo-Yo Ma’s essay he talks about empathetic thinking and how it can help us understand that “There is something that connects us all and is bigger than each of us.” (Yo-Yo Ma, 2).
    • This can be used for children in therapy to better understand why their parents got divorced and better cope with it. This being said, the empathetic thinking