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This International Arts Education Week, we’re seeking out stories of teachers, artists, parents, students, teaching artists, and community members that are supporting arts education in the COVID-19 Pandemic.
We want to hear about how arts and cultural education kept young people connected to each other and their communities.
Read moreIn the Fall of 2020, UNESCO’s International Commission on the Futures of Education released a paper outlining nine ideas for public action in education in a post-COVID world. In addition to submitting written responses, they solicited artwork from students. They recently released a synthesis report about the 218 pieces they received.
Read moreIn response to UNESCO’s call for responses to the International Commission on the Futures of Education, the World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE) offered the a letter, concluding with a call to action: We advocate for the transformative role and power that arts education has and can enable these changes, which are imperative for the future oof young people and our world.
Read moreThe future of education, in my opinion, would be more fruitful and fulfilling to students if a more purposeful use of artistic skills, processes, and experiences are used as an educational tool to foster learning in non-artistic disciplines like the sciences at the same time better supporting their social emotional learning. With both tools in their kit, educators will be able to go full STEAM ahead.
Read moreWe, along with our colleagues at Creative Generation, read UNESCO’s International Commission on the Futures of Education’s paper outlining nine ideas for public action in education in a post-COVID world with great interest. UNESCO’s recommendations are necessarily vague, so as to be applicable to the broadest set of communities, but they are a strong jumping-off point that is well-aligned with Creative Generation’s mission and practices with regard to equity.
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