I’m reading an article dated Sept 2nd, 2009 in the brand spanking new journal ARTS & HEALTH titled « On creating the discipline, profession and evidence in the field of arts and healthcare » and the more I read the more I’m frustrated. Why you ask? Because!!! Though the authors do a great job of sorting all [...]
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Transferable benefits from the arts
There are a number of educational studies that now show that involvement in making art has tremendous benefits, many of which can transfer to other areas of life. Catterall et all. (2002) summarized the findings of 62 research studies. They identified 84 distinguishable, valid effects of the arts among groups of children. Academic benefits were [...]
