Apr 28, 2017
As students draw wiggly lines, straight lines, fat lines and overlapping lines, enclosures, dots, and patterns they experience the efficacious feeling of creating something new in the world that was not there before. They begin to make associations between their marks and something they have experienced in the real world. The first drawing is described asĀ āA spiky pinecone for animals.ā and the second is,Ā āA crowded rainforestā. Ā
This paper: http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1129&context=art_design_thesesĀ Ā explores the ways the arts promote create self-efficacy and shape studentsā self-concept.Ā
