Stretching the Envelope for Arts Literacy: Arguing for Multiple Literacies through Drama and the Other Arts

Abstract

The arts are a major form, of human communication and expression. Individuals and groups use them to explore, express and communicate ideas, feelings and experiences.Each arts form is a language in its own right, being a major way of symbolically knowing and communicating experience. Through the arts individuals and groups express, convey and invoke meaning. Like other language forms, arts languages have their own conventions, codes, practices and meaning structures. They also communicate cultural contexts. Students benefit from understanding and using these ways of knowing and expressing feelings and experiences.'