Study Unit 4

Arts integration in the foundation phase

Hii all I hope everyone is good and is enjoying the rain season, this week started out wild, but my head is kept above the water. I found out that the child that I have been looking after for the past two years needs to go for a heart surgery, so we are just praying that everything will be fine and just to leave it in God’s hands.

This week I learned what art integration means and that is, a teaching-learning model which is based on learning through doing arts and with the arts. This will help the teacher know that the students understand the work by showing it in their art work.

I also learned that art integration is extremely important for the learners, because it helps the learners to engage in their art work and art integration offers a variety of new ways to construct and demonstrate how things should be done.

Arts integration is very valuable for foundation phase learners, because it helps the learners with the development of motor skills, language skills, social skills, decision-making, and inventiveness. Art integration is also valuable, not just for foundation phase learners, but adults too, because it helps them and teaches them to take healthy risks when needed.

It helps learners to recognise new skills in themselves and in their peers. Encouraging learners to demonstrate what they understand through art and that creates new and improved teaching and learning methods and environment, where learners can learn individually and discover different and new abilities.

Theoretical framework for arts integration in foundation phase, includes six different ways in which music can help in the foundation phase and which will help develop through teaching and learning, which includes, about, from, on, with, in, and through.

In conclusion, I believe that art integration is just as important as any other thing that all of the learners should be taught in school. Learners will learn to show their understanding and everything they need through their art.

I hope I covered everything and that everyone will have a great week.