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 The centrality of visual arts education  Art is a unique way of knowing and understanding the world. Purposeful visual arts activities expand children’s ways of exploring, expressing and coming to terms with the world they inhabit in a structured and enjoyable way. Children first learn to respond aesthetically to their environment through touch, taste, sound, and smell, and their natural curiosity suggests a need for sensory experience. Visual arts education helps to develop sensory awareness enhances sensibilities and emphasizes particular ways of exploring, experimenting and inventing. The visual arts curriculum provides for a wide range of activities that enable the child to develop ideas through imagery, thus providing a necessary balance to the wider curriculum. Learning in and through art can contribute positively to children’s sense of personal and cultural identity and to their whole development. The visual arts in a child-centered curriculum  Each child possesses a range of i