Keywords

Education, Utah elementary schools, curriculum strategy, arts disciplines

Abstract

Arts education can be a vital part of the elementary child’s learning experience. How-ever, keeping the arts in schools is often a challenge because of other competing academic priorities. Thus, arts integration is a valuable curriculum strategy as it merges arts disciplines with other subject areas in order to open up new ways of experiencing or gaining knowledge. Through a combination of a generous endowment and legislative appropriations, Utah elementary schools have the opportunity to employ arts specialists through the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Pro-gram. The program is designed to provide arts education to elementary-age students through a collaboration between art specialists and classroom teacher.

Original Publication Citation

Integrated Learning in Elementary Arts Education: Promising Possibilities (2021), Estrada, Tara Carpenter and Graham, Mark Allen, Childhood Education Innovations Journal, Volume 97.