Everything Affects Education: Studying Color

By  Victory Step Education Team

Published on  March 19, 2017

When you work in education, you start to see variables that affect your study environment everywhere.

Additionally, when you work in education, you start to feel crazy for seeing the complexity of the mind’s relationship with everything around us. It all sort of starts to feel like that meme where a woman is staring vacantly at a bunch of different numbers.

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My disposition on how the arts are tied into education is clear if anyone has read my post detailing my intrigue with Professor Adam Grant’s discussion of artistic geniuses and parenting. There is a reason that the Arts Magnet of Dallas boasts high GPAs and graduation rate. But I’m not here to whip out science or Ted Talks. With all of the colors of spring that will soon surround us, I’d like to encourage our curious readers to take a moment and read about color and it’s relationship with the mind.

Check out the psychology of color and the importance of context in our feelings toward color for some interesting Sunday reading!

Since mental states are an important part of effective teaching, it’s important to consider how the colors of your environment will affect a student’s mind and mood. If you’re sitting in a highlighter-yellow colored room, you’re probably going to quickly die of unhappiness (or endure a really bad headache.) Same goes for this shade of brown voted the ugliest color in existence.

Colors aren’t just random brain magic, though. They are very contextual and rooted in the meanings prescribed by our cultural experiences. But effects they cause are entirely real, and are supported by research. In fact, scientists looked for the ugliest color ever to try and combat smoking by forcing the disgusting color to be displayed on cigarette boxes.

And so, I hope these articles give a little more color to your day! But not that ugly brown color from that one article, though. I hope it’s more of nice honey color.

 

photo credit: markchadwickart Fluid Detail Into Yellow via photopin (license)

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