REENGINEERING FINE AND APPLIED ARTS EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY IN A DIGITALIZED WORLD

Abstract

For a sustainable knowledge, art must be involved because, art has a way of communicating to the society in the simplest language. This study attempts at unveiling the vital roles of Art in the re-engineering Nigerian Education for Sustainability in the knowledge economy of this digitalized era. This paper also sought to re-package and reposition Fine and Applied Arts Education, laying emphasis in the vital and unique roles played by arts especially in the visual arts aspects. Fine and Applied Arts is a problem-solving discipline, this entails that the attributes of art like creative skills, imageries conceptualization, aesthetics are seen as the bedrock of inventions and innovations. In the school system Art is used to teach other subjects, since the dawn of human development, people have strived to improve on the level of their knowledge. This paper is directed at re-emphasizing the crucial and important roles which Fine and Applied Arts can play through formal and informal educational system as means of impacting and inculcating important knowledge. Art should be our basic educational system, both formal and informal education and made compulsory so that people can understand art from the basic and cradle. Artist should be made available in all disciplines of life due to the vital roles of art.