Archive for the ‘Arts in Education’ Category

Children, their parents and the arts: some guidelines for working with young children. A useful guide for arts and cultural organisations, policy makers, early childhood educators and researchers of children’s development.

Children, their parents and the arts is a result of a learning partnership between Queensland University of Technology, Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s Out of the Box Festival of Early Childhood and the Australia Council for the Arts.The guide aims to enhance outcomes for children, parents and communities in any context where children are introduced to the arts – classrooms, galleries, public spaces and other informal and creative learning environments.

Children, their parents and the arts: some guidelines for working with parents of young children – Australia Council for the Arts

Although only 1/3 of the population works in the creative sector, in fields ranging from science to design, nearly half of all wage and salary income in the United States is generated by the creative sector. -The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida

Keep Arts in Schools: Voices of Innovation

“For all the rhetoric about 21st century skills and the global economy… the idea that you can get all kids to be competitive and to be self-directed and to be able to work in teams and solve problems and to be able to communicate effectively without rehearsal, all of those are pleading for access to the one place in the classic education system that actually understands it, and that’s the arts.” -Peter McWalters, Rhode Island Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education and co-chair of the National Task Force on the Arts in Education

Keep Arts in Schools: Voices of Innovation

How important is art class, really? – Vallejo Times Herald