Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, Shirley Veenema, and Kimberly M. Sheridan, who are with Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education are known for discouraging advocates from making a case for the arts by linking arts learning to achievement in other areas. Research establishing causality is not adequate. But they felt it would be valuable to describe the dispositions acquired through serious study of the arts that have the potential to transfer to other areas of learning.
Eight Studio Habits of Mind
1) Develop craft
Learning to use tools and materials; Learning artistic conventions.
2) Engage and persist
Learning to embrace problems of relevance within the art world and/or of personal importance, to develop focus and other mental states conducive to working and persevering at art tasks
3) Envision
Learning to picture mentally what cannot be directly observed and imagine possible next steps in making a piece.
4) Express
Learning to create works that convey an idea, a feeling, or a personal meaning
5) Observe
Learning to attend to visual contexts more closely than ordinary “looking” requires, and thereby to see things that otherwise might not be seen
6) Reflect
Question and explain: Learning to think and talk with others about an aspect of one’s work or working process
Evaluate: Learning to judge one’s own work and working process, and the work of others in relation to standards of the field
7) Stretch and explore
Learning to reach beyond one’s capacities, to explore playfully without a preconceived plan, and to embrace the opportunity to learn from mistakes and accidents
8) Understand art world
Domain: Learning about art history and current practice
Communities: Learning to interact as an artist with other artists (i.e., in classrooms, in local arts organizations, and across the art field) and within the broader society
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