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The Ministry’s Viewpoint
The Ontario Arts Curriculum grades 9 and 10 document (2010) also
asserts that “Education in the arts involves students intellectually,
emotionally, socially, and physically. Learning through the arts
therefore fosters integration of students’ cognitive, emotional,
sensory, and motor capacities, and enables students with a wide
variety of learning styles to increase their learning potential. For
example, hands-on activities can challenge students to move from
the concrete to the abstract, and the students learn that, while the
arts can be enjoyable and fulfilling, they are also intellectually
rigorous disciplines” (p. 4)