Noncognitive Factors in Arts-Integrated Learning

• In Event: Arts Integration for 21st-Century Learning

Abstract

Makai Elementary School is an exception to the systematic decline of the arts in schools across the nation, and has answered a call to invest in developing tomorrow’s innovators by providing content instruction through the arts. How does school-wide arts integration in an elementary setting impact student success as they transition to middle school? This study defines the role of the arts in education within three noncognitive categories: a) academic mindset, or the psychological and socially related attitudes a student holds with respect to academic goals; b) learning strategies, or strategies that support thinking, remembering, or understanding concepts; c) and social skills or inter-personal behaviors such as interacting with others in socially acceptable ways through cooperation, assertion and empathy.

Author

• Jamie Christine Simpson Steele, University of Hawaii - Manoa