WHAT ARE CITA Programs?
CITA programs optimize the teaching and learning process of any academic subject. They contain all the curricular, artistic and instructional components needed to teach any academic subject through art. The educational pathway of CITA benefits the students by enhancing the learning process with hands-on activities that further develop their perception, visual intelligence, reasoning and critical thinking. Teachers get better and faster results for their efforts to teach curricular subjects, and are trained in this novel methodology while using it in the classroom.
METHODOLOGY
While creating an art object related to an academic subject, the students acquire the contents of that subject. Their visual thinking guides the artistic process (idea-production-communication) but also engage the student in critical thinking (observation, analysis and further comprehension).
Using their visual thinking first, the students learn complex themes faster and deeper. They understand maps (and other objects based on math) as structures. The students can learn science, social science, economy, art and politics when they are guided through the visual analysis.
