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The Importance of Integrated Arts Education for Creating Tomorrow's Innovative WorkersPosted by Stacey Wagner. |
Nationally, between 2000 and 2005, jobs requiring imagination and creativity rose more than 10 percent.
To meet this expanding demand, a burgeoning movement is taking place in education that hopes to inspire creative thinking and innovation in America's future employees - integrated arts education. Over the last year, our research into the business interest in hiring creative and imaginative employees has yielded some surprising and not-so-surprising findings with regard to their support of "arts education".
To learn more about what we found, please download Innovation and Integrated Arts Education (102.1 KB) (102.1 KB) .
I am also hosting a forum to further this discussion. Please join me in the forum Integrated Arts Education Driving Future Workforce Innovation
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Ed Morrison said
Stacey: Great topic.
I hope you and others take a few minutes to check out the presentation by Sir Ken Robinson at TED.
It's one of the most inspiring and powerful I have seen. You can see it here.