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Arts education
Dramatic setback: Why the newly drafted senior drama syllabus falls short of a quality creative arts education
The NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) just released new draft senior Creative Arts syllabuses for Year 11 and …
Is arts learning an emerging priority for your primary school?
We know that learning the arts improves both student engagement and well-being. Students develop self-esteem, capacity to collaborate …
Arts education: we fail our students with so many tests
The Impoverishment of Standardised Learning In today’s educational climate, with its intense focus on raising standardised test scores, …
Could this one thing make students love school again?
School refusal has been labelled a “national trend” by the Senate education committee. Primary and secondary children are …
It’s time: Pat Thomson reflects on a (postponed) Radford
One way or another, my research always concerns a “wicked” problem. I simply want to know how schooling can be made better and fairer for many more children and young people than is the case at present. I’ve taken this question into research projects on public policy and education systems, schools and school leaders work, …
Why we must urgently rescue arts education now
Australian governments have taken a limited view of the Arts, artists and the imperative of quality arts education for our children and young people for decades. They have neglected or ignored the research that education in, about and through the Arts, especially when authentically integrated across the curriculum, is a strong predictor of long term …
One powerful way to beat the trauma of school transition with joy and fun
On the Monday post lockdown, schools again reverberated with the sounds of all their kids in the playground. In this pandemic much has changed but perhaps none more than schools and the work of teachers. For many parents, teachers and students there will be justifiable anxiety about what students have missed out on. There will …
Not every principal will love the arts but every arts teacher does. They need support
Australians have leapt online to participate in arts events. More than 30% of Australians have engaged with arts …
When the going gets tough artists & arts educators get going with innovative ways of connecting and learning
As 2020 lurches through multiple uncertainties the Australian arts community, already feeling the effects from budget cuts and a stripped back Australia Council funding round, discovered many members do not have access to the Government’s stimulus measures. Australian artists and arts workers united early in April for a day of action under the hashtag #CreateAustraliasFuture to remind us all how much …