Music and arts have significant impacts on students’; psychosocial development in schools in the United Arab Emirates. Such disciplines complement the educational process, contributing to the student’s progress as a unique individual and as an academic. Music and arts build creativity, cultural sensitivity, emotional intelligence and personal development of the students.

Let’s take a look at the role of Music and Arts education in the UAE.

Role of Music and Arts Education

Following are the major role played by music and arts education in students’ life. 

Enhancing Creativity

This paper alluded to how music and arts education enhances creativity among learners. They are free to come up with new ideas which are significant in the organization. There are these disciplines where individuals can freely write artworks and in this way, explore their creativity.

Artistic Expression

Creativity enables students to explore the use of various materials, approaches and ways of creation. From the results of this study, it was found that it enhances their artistic self-expression skills and self-esteem. Whether it is mural painting, portrait drawing, sculpture making or computer-generated artwork, art making enables and enhances the students’ expression and demonstration of ideas in the visual domain.

Music Education

Music experience can be described as an educative process that entails learning to sing or play instruments, and the process of composing music. The comprehension and application of music theory as well as the development of required skills in connection with performance improves students’ skills in the art of music. Through these skills, the children enhance their artistic experience while at the same time enhancing their mental skills and desirable behaviours.

Promoting Cultural Awareness

These are the benefits of music and art education such as; It enables students to value and also learn other cultures and world’s customs. Promoting an appreciation of and insights and values of the various kinds of art and music from other cultures broadens the students’ appreciation towards historical richness.

Studying Diverse Artistic Traditions

An art course where different eras are taught enables students to broaden their understanding of other people’s creative abilities worldwide. By means of the coursework in art history and culture, one is informed on the history of art as well as its relationship with cultures. This knowledge in return opens them up to a new approach to embracing cultural differences hence making the society culturally sensitive.

Supporting Emotional Expression

Music and arts help people to express their feelings. They get students to identify appropriate emotions and get an avenue through which they can let out the emotions. These creative disciplines allow students to express their feelings and give their accounts without the oppressiveness of having to go through media or other channels.

Developing Emotional Intelligence

Being involved in music and arts education also assists students in improving on the aspect of emotional intelligence. Thus, they grow up to become more self-aware and empathic individuals. So students can discover and learn what feelings belong to them, and what emotions other people experience while drawing and analyzing the art they have made. This skill is important in ascertaining good communication and interpersonal relationships and the ability to conduct oneself in organized social interactions.

Enhancing Academic Performance

Such a conclusion can be made because evidence proves that music and arts, as components of education, have a positive effect on academic performance. Research conducted by experts in these fields holds that students who pursue these disciplines get better grades in standard classes including mathematics, science, and English.

Cognitive Development

Music and art enhance learning and increase the brain power among learners. It brings about such skills as critical thinking, problem-solving and spatial-temporal reasoning. Reading a score or decoding a painting entails understanding and interpretation that go a long way in developing one’s cognitive abilities.

Improved Concentration and Discipline

Discipline is also developed through the practice associated with music and arts education, which sharpens the perseverance of the students. All these qualities can be easily linked to better focus and work ethic in academic material and subjects. The ability to work with ‘muscles of character’ arms a student with patience and resilience which define a student.

Building Communication Skills

Music especially music and arts education assists in the development of good communication among students. These disciplines assist students in articulating their concepts as well as feelings through creativity.

Visual and Verbal Communication

By analyzing our examples and compile findings in a simple manner, it can be concluded that the visual arts improve students’ communication skills. They learn how to send messages or certain feelings through images and symbols. Speaking about and analyzing the artworks as well as evaluating them also helps them in their speaking and thinking abilities.

Cultivating Artistic Interests

Hence, the opportunities for exercising the utility of art in schools dictate artistic visions in students. These engagements can start early and the youth can develop an interest in art till they adopt it as part of their lives.

Supporting Cultural Participation

A good background knowledge in music and arts education helps students to engage in culturally related events and create support to arts’ related entities. They are likely to attend a concert, go to a museum and do arts to enhance their lives and add to the cultural growth of the society.

Music particularly and arts in general should be part of the learning process in schools in the UAE. Art is creative, cultural, emotional, academic, communicative, and life-enhancing. The children in schools that are equipped with music and arts facilities are endowed with lasting resources that will enable them to foster their personalities, excel academically as well as lead a cultured life. As the UAE keeps investing greatly in education, the inclusion of music and arts contributes significantly towards the nurturing of the students to meet the global needs of the future.