Morocco World News – Mohamed Bella
“In Morocco, few schools integrate arts education in their educational curriculum. It is the job of our esteemed government to make an effort to fix this serious problem…Arts education is a primary means of developing critical and creative thinking in students. Studies prove that arts education helps students develop various skills such as creativity, imagination, communication, and teamwork. For instance, a report released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) titled “Art for Art’s Sake” listed some fundamental points in improving students’ skills. Arts education has a positive impact on the subsets of skills defined as “skills for innovation”: subject-based skills (including non-arts subjects), skills in thinking and creativity, and behavioral and social skills…and may facilitate foreign-language training.”(more)