Thinking About Art: The Role of Single-Visit Art Museum Field Trip Programs in Visual Arts Education

The Barcelona Conference on Education 2023: Official Conference Proceedings

“…In the first stage, several criteria were initially applied to exclude studies, including those less than three pages in length, not written in English, articles that are not related to RFTs and VFTs. After this stage of the screening, 37 articles ([1], [2], [3] [8], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [26], [27], [28], [29], [37], [39], [42], [44], [45], [49], [50], [51], [52], [55], [58], [59], [60], [61], [62], [63], [67], [68], [69]) were selected for full text assessment. The second stage of the screening process involved reading title, keywords, and abstract to identify studies that are relevant to RFTs and VFTs that had been peer reviewed in an educational context.…”

“…As a result of exposure to multiple high-quality or artsbased field trips, students are able to make better academic progress, improve their social and emotional well-being, as well as engage more in school activities (Florick et al,[16]). Even one museum visit contributes significantly to a student's visual arts education at school since it boosts four capacities that will carry over into their lives after graduation: creative thinking, empathy, critical thinking, and curiosity (Krantz & Downey,[37]). During these trips, educators engage students in instructional discourses or purposeful educator-student dialogues in order to create new understandings through co-construction (Tigert,Fotouhi & Kirschbaum,[62]).…”

Factors That Optimize Engagement for Diverse Learners at Arts Performances for Young Audiences

“…Researchers suspect that being in the presence of real-time performers immerses students into a larger world that broadens their curiosity, perception, and acceptance (J. P. Greene et al, 2014Greene et al, , 2018. Even though field trips can be costly, time-sensitive, and challenging to coordinate, a single visit to an art museum may help students ask complex questions about museum content, accept multiple interpretations of artwork, think critically about material properties, and recall emotional reactions (Randi Korn & Associates Inc., 2018). School-based field trips tend to be the first encounter students have with museums and performances, and may become a gateway experience.…”