Anne Dwinell

About Me

Designer, artist, and teacher improving communication visually. I have fifteen plus years of communication design experience. I am an expert in Photoshop and Illustrator. I am a master of extending concepts to design and experience.

See my personal website and work here

I have been living and working in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for five years at TASOK. I am in my sixth year at The American School Of Kinshasa currently teaching Middle School, High School Visual Arts, MYP, & IBDP.

 

You can connect with me at

adwinell@tasok.net

 

The Arts Advantage in Education

Research has confirmed over and over that learning is enhanced and enriched through quality education in the arts.  Here are some key reasons why:

  1. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution
    and that questions can have more than one answer.
  2. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
  3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
  4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving
    purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.     Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
  5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
  6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
    The arts traffic in subtleties.
  7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
    All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
  8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.
    When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
  9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
  10. The arts’ position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young
    what adults believe is important.    SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications. NAEA grants reprint permission for this excerpt from Ten Lessons with proper acknowledgment of its source and NAEA.

– See more at: http://www.arteducators.org/advocacy/10-lessons-the-arts-teach#sthash.hduCZQTa.dpuf