aspg-27-4430-1792223474 20261017075114 American Scientific Publishing Group admin@americaspg.com American Scientific Publishing Group International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Education Technology IJAIET 2835-2432 2026 5 2 Heba Al-Sherbini Visual Arts Teacher, Al-Sila Kindergarten and School, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Wael Anwar Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting, Faculty of Specific Education, Mansoura University, Egypt In this paper, the effect of visual arts usage on national identity among first cycle students in the United Arab Emirates will be evaluated. It should be noted that today visual arts became an effective way of informing youth about their cultural values, sense of belonging to their nation, national heritage and values. Nowadays when there are a lot of social and cultural problems, schools should make great efforts in helping students to establish their national identity through creativity. This research is conducted using the methodological framework of descriptive-analytical approach and explores the effect of visual arts on students’ national identity. For the purpose of this study, a questionnaire has been created and distributed among the target audience of first cycle students in order to analyze students’ perspectives on visual arts effects on their sense of national identity, their culture and national values. Moreover, the impact of certain demographic factors like gender, grade, and academic background has been explored. The results have been obtained using statistical tools like frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson’s correlation coefficient. The research suggests that visual arts have a positive effect on students’ national identity as it encourages students to appreciate and recognize their national culture, belonging to their nation and values, as well as create something based on those. 2026 31 42 4430 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 10.54216/IJAIET.050204 https://americaspg.com/journal/27/article/4430 https://americaspg.com/storage/articles/manuscripts/01KVPFJCN7K1H58242JFQTGPYB.pdf