Art education

This piece by Nature Conservation Foundation can aid you in thinking through, designing and facilitating your own interventions in this space.

Manasi in her essay titled ‘The potential of visual arts in language development’ discusses the intimate links between visual arts and learning, especially those related to languages; at the same time, she makes a case for the need to learn the visual arts independent of their links to learning the written word.

Neeraj Naidu in a reflective piece highlights the absence of visual arts education in remote rural geographies, many of which are conflict-ridden, and argues that this is indeed a social justice issue.

In his essay, Rohit Kumar shares experiences and stories from experimenting with visual arts in an early childhood library program.

This piece by Marta Cabral reviews Nisha Nair’s book on visual arts education practice titled ‘Art Sparks: Ideas. Methods. Process.’

This piece aims to present an alternative approach, encouraging imagination, problem-solving, and divergent thinking in children.