Honors Program
Midway Honors
Date of Award
5-2014
Thesis Professor(s)
Catherine Murray
Thesis Professor Department
Art and Design
Thesis Reader(s)
Mary Jane Jacob, Michael McGill
Abstract
The Role of Youth Arts: Providing Opportunity and Intervention for At-Risk Populations considers the positive outcomes of arts experiences during childhood and adolescence. The benefits of arts education include cognitive, social, and emotional growth. The arts are also seen to improve student learning, achievement, and engagement on many levels. Childhood arts participation directly affects adult arts engagement in which individuals gain the cultural capital that allows for social ascent. As well as being a means for opportunity, art can be used as a means of intervention for at-risk youth populations. Through art, children and teens find meaning, belonging, and success that they lack in other areas. This work will discuss my role developing an activity for an at-risk youth program called PATROL, that partners Johnson City police officers with children from local housing authorities. The programs teaches positive actions and decision making while offering support and mentorship for the youth participants.
Publisher
East Tennessee State University
Document Type
Honors Thesis - Open Access
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
McCamy, Tania m., "The Role of Youth Arts: Providing Opportunity and Intervention for At-Risk Populations" (2014). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 211. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/211
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.
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