Under the aegis of Delhi World Foundation
A Dipsites Knowledge Initiative
Art Integrated Learning is an innovative and constructivist learning approach which is based on learning ‘through the arts’ and ‘with the arts’.
Through art integration, students do engage in different art experiences and construct personal meaning through their learning. Art experiences provide every learner with the needed opportunity and freedom to observe, imagine, explore, create, recreate and express. This resonates with the experiential learning approach where teachers use different art experiences, both in visual (drawing and painting, clay modelling, pottery, paper crafts, mask and puppet making, heritage crafts, etc.) and performing arts (music, dance, theatre, puppetry etc.) to teach and learn a variety of academic concepts and subjects in a more engaging and joyful way.
The National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) emphasises that the curriculum and its pedagogy should provide experience which makes learning holistic, integrated, enjoyable and engaging. Realising the importance of art integration for providing experiential learning, NEP 2020 recommends the use of hands-on learning and arts integrated education as standard pedagogy within all subjects and with explorations of relations among different subjects. NEP 2020 states that “As a part of the thrust on experiential learning, art-integrated education will be embedded in classroom transactions not only for creating joyful classrooms, but also for imbibing the Indian ethos through integration of Indian art and culture in the teaching and learning process at every level ”.
