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A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes. How will your dreams express themselves?
Effects on individuals: •They alter the way people think (e.g., stimulating the imagination, increasing receptiveness to ambiguity and complexity) •They produce (and create templates for) heightened experience (e.g., intense feeling, sensing, satisfaction, awareness) •They provide a means of seeing beyond one's own context and experience—e.g., increasing empathy or understanding of otherness. •They change the ways one builds common, shared experiences across social contexts. •They help individuals address unanswerable questions (e.g., larger questions of human or divine meaning and purpose). •They expand one’s capacity for non-verbal understanding. Effects on groups: •They contribute to equity (e.g., particularly empowerment and access for disenfranchised groups to non-verbal resources and repositories of human wisdom) •They enhance communal life (e.g., loyalty to community and/or organization, retention in schools and communities, pride of place, social behaviors) •They increase social adaptability (e.g., stimulating innovation and creativity, yielding economic benefits, reinforcing positive identities, promoting the value of difference and diversity) •They provide the underlying myths, metaphors, and symbols on which culture is based. Making the Case for the Impact of Art on People’s Lives: Notes Toward a Research Agenda October 31-November 1, 2003l Clremont Graduate University Claremont, California Led by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Benefits of Art
We see it [aesthetic education] as integral to the development of persons--to their cognitive, perceptual, emotional, and imaginative development. Maxine Greene
