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The Dutch AllaprimA Foundation has a huge collection of children's paintings and drawings.
The collection is de result of the art teaching in the art school AllaprimA Art Atelier in Zwijndrecht the Netherlands.
During more than 30 years the artist and art teacher Marja de Jong has teach hundreds of children and adults.
The lessons are based on essential artistic principals, visible in the quality of the works.
The AllaprimA Foundation has given the use of the collection to the AllaprimA MuseuM of art centre Saksala ArtRadius to be sure it will be more public.
 

The collection is a part of the art education program, the exhibitions in the museum, and can also be used by students and scientists in the field of art and art education.

The publications about the collection, the view on art education and the interesting results of long-term education is only in Dutch, except the last one.
The book 'kindertekeningen, een beeldverhaal' (children's paintings, a story of images) is in two languages Dutch and English.
This book is still available, just as the method UIT DE KUNST.

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Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
By Elliot Eisner

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.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

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.

The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor number exhaust what we can know.
The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.
The arts traffic in subtleties.

The arts teach students to think through and within a material.
All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

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.

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.

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.


NEWSPAPER NRC (NL) edition 14.4.2008
NEWS THEME EDUCATION Graham Lock: Most of the people do not need much knowledge
The article is a critical view on the Dijsselbloem report about the Dutch education system.

The end of the article tells about: What was the original reason of education?
"Traditional education is focusing on the individual. What does he need, not that so much for the labor market, but to live a meaningful life as a human. Gain knowledge of history, science and philosophy, not because you want to have a job in it, but because you need a repertoire to drawn on in unexpected moments"

The whole article (in Dutch) on the website of the NRC