Arts Education in Thailand
Why it Matters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14823311 |
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| Authors | Cristina Penn Schoonmaker (Mahidol University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Manusya Journal of Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0859-9920 • E-ISSN: 2665-9077 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/26659077-01702001 |
| OpenAlex | W2946090240 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
The humanities, especially the visual arts, are often neglected at Thai universities because they are perceived as rarely yielding tangible results. This paper aims to demonstrate that learning to decode and talk about a painting not only require high level cognitive, visual, and language skills, but also extensive contextual knowledge, which only a background in the humanities can offer. The author analyzes several works of art as well as discusses modern aesthetics to argue that the arts are an integral part of the human experience, and therefore, should be included in general education courses at the tertiary level
Aesthetics · Art · Arts in education · Cognition · Higher education · Language arts · Mathematics education · Painting · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Tertiary level · The arts · Visual arts · Visual arts education · Visual language · Art Education and Development · Artistic and Creative Research · Digital Media and Visual Art · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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