论文信息 - Involvement in the Arts and Human Development : General Involvement and Intensive Involvement In Music and Theatre Arts

Involvement in the Arts and Human Development : General Involvement and Intensive Involvement In Music and Theatre Arts

This briefing presents results from our work during the past 2 years exploring interactions between the arts and human development and achievement. This research enlists the National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS:88), a panel study which has followed more than 25,000 students in American secondary schools for 10 years. The work addresses developments for children and adolescents over the period spent between the 8 and 12 grades, i.e. late middle school through high school. The first phase of the work examines involvement in the arts generally -across all disciplines. The second phase examines the potential importance of sustained involvement in a single discipline, here using instrumental music and the theatre arts as case examples. We focus on these two arts disciplines in the one case because of related research suggesting links between music and cognitive development at younger age levels, and in the other because of related research on drama and theatre in education.

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