Developing Transformational Growth of K–16 Students Through Art Education in Current and Post-COVID-19 Environments

• In Event: Arts Education in Changing Times

Abstract

The challenges COVID-19 generates on students’ learning are tremendous; students and educators have been forced to accept this abnormalcy and persevere in academics. While students, educators, and the public experience the collective suffering, it is vitally important for K-16 educators to recognize the ongoing challenges in the classrooms in current and post-COVID-19 educational contexts and constructively develop the collective good to offer quality education. This research focuses on analyzing the challenges COVID-19 has continued to generate on students’ learning and well-being through artistic creation, discovering the function and effectiveness the arts-based instruction have played in K-16 classrooms, and developing accessible arts-based educational resources for cross-disciplinary K-16 educators to create students’ transformational growth academically and emotionally in current and post-COVID-19 environments.

Author

• Li-Hsuan Hsu, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh