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The Arts as a Venue for Developmental Science: Realizing a Latent Opportunity
Thalia R Goldstein1, Matthew D Lerner2, Ellen Winner3
1George Mason University.
Child Development
|June 20, 2017
Summary
Artistic activities are crucial for child development, impacting attention, emotion, and social skills. Rigorous research shows arts engagement enhances learning and skill transfer across various domains.
Area of Science:
- Developmental Psychology
- Cognitive Science
- Arts Education
Background:
- Artistic activities are universal in childhood but historically understudied in developmental science.
- Traditional research faced methodological challenges, leading to underestimation of arts' impact.
Purpose of the Study:
- To highlight the significance of arts engagement in child development.
- To demonstrate the value of rigorous research in understanding arts learning.
- To advocate for the inclusion of arts in developmental psychology studies.
Main Methods:
- Review and presentation of 21 exemplary research case studies.
- Inclusion of participants aged 18 months to 17 years.
- Focus on methodologically rigorous contemporary studies.
Main Results:
- Arts engagement involves fundamental developmental phenomena (attention, emotion regulation, social understanding).
- Current research confirms the depth of learning through arts participation.
- Arts engagement facilitates skill transfer to other cognitive and social domains.
Conclusions:
- Developmental psychologists must integrate the study of arts into their discipline.
- Arts are a valid and valuable area for studying real-world developmental processes.
- Further rigorous examination of arts engagement is warranted for a comprehensive understanding of child development.
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