Call for Expressions of Interest
Editorship of Art Education Australia’s highly regarded peer reviewed journal, Australian Art Education.
Call for a National Action Plan for Asia Literacy in Schools
Download this release from the Asia Education Foundation
IJETA Special Issue: Community Art, Call for Articles
The International Journal of Education through Art is seeking submissions. The journal
is interdisciplinary in its reflection of teaching and learning contexts and also in its
representation of artistic approaches and practices. It provides a platform for those
who wish to question and evaluate the ways in which art education is practiced,
disseminated and interpreted across a diverse range of educational contexts. Each
issue consists of peer-reviewed articles and image-text features.
Articles and visual essays are sought for a special issue, which focus on the broad theme
of ‘community art’, sometimes referred to as ‘art in the community’ or ‘socially engaged
art’. What are the distinctive features of community art? How does it happen and what
does it look like? Who is engaged in community art and where does it take place? What
might be the benefits of community art? These are just some of the questions that may
be addressed in this issue, there are many more. We are seeking critical articles and visual essays, or ‘image-text features’ that report on this area of art practice. Image-text features are particularly welcome for this issue.
Guidelines for authors (articles and visual essays) can be found at
http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/ijeta/index.
Download a flyer here.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS -
Cultural Sensitivity in a Global World:
A Handbook for Teachers
A book accepted to be published by the National Art Education Association
Teachers of kindergarten through postsecondary grade students and those
who teach in out-of-school contexts in museums and other settings are encouraged
to submit reports of individual or group projects, descriptions of
instructional strategies, or model units and lesson plans designed to foster
appreciation, initiate interactive communication, nurture empathy, and/or
promote mutual respect among people from diverse socio-economic, gender,
ethnic, national, and cultural groups.
Read more here.
Webcast- Acting on the Seoul Agenda
International Society for Education through Art, E-news
www.insea.org
Available here: http://educ.queensu.ca/unesco/registration-events/previous-events.html
Shape of the Australian Curriculum - The Arts
The Victorian Response
Prepared by
Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD)
Catholic Education Commission Victoria (CEC)
Independent School Victoria
Download a PDF of the response.
You’re invited!
Arts Education Forum
The Arts and Australian Education: Realising Potential
Professor Robyn Ewing, University of Sydney
Professor Ewing will address the paper and there will also be time for questions and discussion.
4:30-6:30pm, Friday 6 May 2011
Ground floor Conference Rooms,
2 Treasury Place East Melbourne.
Download a flyer.
RSVP is essential by Friday 29 April to vcaa.australian.curriculum@edumail.vic.gov.au
Invitation to participate: White Ribbon Day Every Day Conference
Professional learning for the prevention of gendered bullying and violence
Saturday 21 May | Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Southbank | Brisbane | Queensland
This national conference, hosted by the Association of Women Educators, is open to everybody interested or involved in the primary prevention of violence, and includes presentations and workshops by leading Australian experts. Educators from community organisations and primary and secondary schools are encouraged to attend. See this flyer and the AWE website for further details
National Library of Australia Fellowships
The 2012 Harold White Fellowships, the Minerals Council of Australia Fellowship and the Japan Fellowship are now open. The fellowships are designed to assist scholars, writers and researchers who use the National Library of Australia collections to further their study.
Applications can be submitted online. The closing date for entry is Saturday, 30 April.
For full information please go to the National Library of Australia home page, or to the News page.
Google Art Project
The Google Art Project, (www.googleartproject.com) is a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums, to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Select a museum then either chose ‘Explore the museum’ or ‘View Artwork’. Once you are in the main site use the drop-down menus or the side info bar to navigate between artworks and museums. You can create and share your own collections online.
Navigating the UNESCO Road Map for Arts Education: Current directions in research and best practice
This on-line journal is dedicated to considering the UNESCO Road Map following the Seoul, Korea World Congress on Arts Education in May 2010.
Now freely available on-line: library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/encounters/issue/view/Volume%2011
Call for a National Action Plan for Asia Literacy in Schools
Art Education Australia has endorsed the Call for a National Action Plan for Asia Literacy in Schools along with business, education and community sectors. This reflects the strength of community understanding of the critical importance of Asia literacy for young Australians.
Download the brochure.
Visit the website: www.asiaeducation.edu.au/partnerships/education_alliance_for_asia_literacy/call_to_action1.html.
Melbourne Teachers College Class of 67 reunion
A reunion of the Melbourne Teachers College Secondary Art & Craft Teachers Certificate graduating class of 1967 will take place in Melbourne soon.
For more information please contact
Gavin Fry,
Director, Newcastle Museum.
Phone: 02 4974 1414, Fax 4974 1405, or email GFry@ncc.nsw.gov.au
Eksperimenta! is a unique and first ever international event that develops critical and creative thinking in society through the unification of contemporary art and art education.
What is unique about E! is that 14-19 year old youngsters are given the chance to work with professional artists and by the “game rules” of professional art exhibitions.
See more: http://www.eksperimenta.net/eksperimenta/exhibition-2011/concept/
The first Eksperimenta! triennal takes place in Tallinn on April 26th - June 14th 2011. Located at the famous Song Festival grounds, where Estonian Singing Revolution took place 20 years ago, E! represents a similar breakthrough, this time through education. The topic of 2011 E! is “Space”. The exhibition will show the interpretations of space by young pre-professional artists from 14 countries: Canada, Portugal, Germany, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Russia, South Korea, Ireland and Iceland.
We are welcoming you to Eksperimenta! opening week from 26th - 30th of April. During the opening week we will conduct IDEAlaboratory training courses, workshops and seminars in Tallinn on 28th - 30th April 2011, where we invite all art educators and school students in the age of 14 – 19 to participate and observe.
The virtual centre of IDEAlab is the internet environment www.eksperimenta.net, where all art educators are invited to upload documentation of their best practices and discuss about the integration of contemporary art and art education.
See more: http://www.eksperimenta.net/idea-labs.
 Download a flyer here.
E! is initiated and organised by art studio Sally Stuudio and belongs to the programme of Tallinn European Capital of Culture 2011.
The Development of the Draft Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts
The Draft Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts (The Draft Shape Paper) is being designed to provide advice to writing teams on the nature of learning and the nature of curriculum in each of the artforms of Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music and Visual Arts. It follows the Initial Advice paper: The Arts presented to invited arts educators, jurisdictions and industry representatives at the Arts Forum held in Sydney on 3 May 2010. Following this forum, feedback was given to writers which have formed the basis of the Draft Shape Paper.
When considering this document it is important to consider whether the information provided describes the nature and continuum of learning in the visual arts. This is the first thing that needs to be established before writers develop this into a sequential and developmental curriculum with associated achievement standards. The document will also describe how the Arts can contribute to the learning of cross-curriculum content and the general capabilities.
Release and consultation
The DRAFT SHAPE OF THE AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM: THE ARTS is now available for public comment.
 Download your copy now for discussion and response.
The Draft Shape Paper for the Arts has been released by the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) on its website, for public consultation, leading to the final publication of The Shape Paper.
Art Education Australia president Marian Strong said teachers would have only about 20 minutes a week to devote to each area from kindergarten to year 8.
She said it was unfair that five art forms had to be squeezed into two hours a week, while geography and history were each allocated two hours a week in the classroom in the national curriculum.
'"I just think it's unteachable. This would be really dumbing down each art form rather than providing any depth of learning. It takes away the integrity of visual arts as a subject by lumping it with a large curriculum called the arts."
http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/debate-rages-over-arts-curriculum-20101007-169r2.html
In the news:
In the visual arts, the paper says "students will engage rationally, creatively and cognitively with art and design works"
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/visual-arts-curriculum-for-schools-omits-drawing/story-fn59nlz9-1225935659537
A 'chorus of concerns raised in recent weeks by professional and academic geographers, scientists, visual artists and principals that the rush to finish the curriculum by the end of the year is compromising the quality of courses'.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/history-course-cobbled-together/story-fn59niix-1225936216208
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/a-curriculum-at-the-crossroads/story-e6frg6zo-1225936206830
ACARA – Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority
A draft arts timeline and further information can be accessed at http://www.acara.edu.au/arts.htm
Register now to receive updates from ACARA: http://www.acara.edu.au/default.asp
Or go straight to the consultation page and register: https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/Auth/Login
The Seoul Agenda
The Seoul Agenda: Goals for the Development of Arts Education is a major outcome of UNESCO’s Second World Conference on Arts Education held in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, on 25 – 28 May 2010. Download a PDF of the Seoul Agenda.
UNESCO Chair for Arts and Learning newsletter
Download a newsletter from the Canadian UNESCO Chair for Arts and Learning, Professor Larry O Farrell, Canada.
Outcomes: The Second World Conference on Arts Education 2010. Read the Final Report.
KACES, the Korea Arts and Culture Education Service
At the recent 2nd UNESCO World Congress on Arts Education, held in Seoul Korea, international visitors were introduced to KACES, the Korea Arts and Culture Education Service. This service has amassed a great deal of research not only within Korea but beyond and is hoping to become a prominent source for arts education research and information world-wide.
To this end, the abstracts from The 2nd World Conference on Arts Education can be found online on KACES’ homepage: http://eng.arte.or.kr/arte_eng/resources/report.jsp
Forging new connections
There is a pressing need for investment in networks to support better communications of humanities, arts and social sciences research and knowledge.
The Australian government's launch of Inspiring Australia, its new science communications strategy, opens the way for investment in these networks. CHASS is developing programs to meet the strategy's goals of an active community and industry engagement with knowledge based research and discovery in Australia.
CHASS President, Professor Linda Rosenman, welcomed Inspiring Australia's recognition of the humanities, arts and social science discipline's contribution to problem-solving for Australia. The strategy further recognises that the social sciences and humanities are critical to the interface between science and society.
CHASS is preparing a proposal to bring together industry, researchers and policy makers in a national forum for the humanities, arts and social sciences. At the heart of the forum will be meetings of learned societies and discipline groups - many of them members of CHASS - which could debate and discuss their specific issues and research, but also link to umbrella events and speeches on major issues and challenges before Australia. We will take this proposal to government and suggest it becomes one of the major initiatives in the new strategy, to stand alongside long-running high profile events such as the national science festival.
Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences: www.chass.org.au
NATIONAL EDUCATION NEWS
On 28 September 2009 the Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs (MCEECDYA) outlined the purpose, roles, activities, governance arrangements and budget for a new national education body whose activities will be framed around standards and professional learning. The new body is to be called the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership.
Core activities proposed for the new Institute:
Standards
- national teacher professional standards
- pre-service teacher education accreditation
- registration of teachers
- accrediting accomplished and leading teachers
Professional Learning
- development of a national framework and quality assurance process for professional learning
- development and strategic delivery of innovative and dynamic national flagship programs to facilitate excellence in pedagogy and leadership
- developing professional learning for school leaders
Board
- Chair and Deputy Chair of the Board to be independent and nominated by the Commonwealth, following state and territory consultations
- Members from each state and territory, the Australian Government, Catholic and Independent sectors
- three additional Board positions nominated by professional bodies
- potential to co-opt member(s) from outside the education sector with expertise in corporate governance, business or commercial fields
We await further advice from MCEEDYA with regard to this new Commonwealth education initiate and from each current state teacher registration authority with regard to implications for professional standards and accreditation.
Teaching Australia Network Forum 2009
CAMPAIGN TO INCLUDE THE ARTS IN THE NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Learning in a Visual Age: The critical importance of Visual Arts Education.
www.arteducators.org/olc/pub/NAEA/learning/learning_page_5.html - published by the US professional association of art educators, NAEA.
Images from InSEA 32 World Congress
Marian Strong recently returned from the InSEA 32 World Congress, Osaka, Japan, held in August 2008. View some of the photos she took while at the congress.
A way forward for National Curriculum?
AEA is an active member of the National Education Forum (NEF). Through this membership AEA participates in debates, issues and developments at the national level on behalf of AEA members.
A National Curriculum
Professional teacher association representatives reviewed version one of the paper at our mid-year meeting. Read the final revised version here. The group has agreed to continue in 2008 in order to continue influencing debate on this topic.
The NEF Executive commend the paper to you, and members of your association to use as a foundational document to guide your discussions about national Curriculum especially in the light of the new Federal Governments proposed Education Revolution and the statements made already about National Curriculum. We would urge you to distribute this electronic version to your State/Territory colleagues, and to the grass-roots of the profession to inform this important debate that is about to re-emerge.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Letter the editor
As representatives of art educators in Australia, we are horrified at the ‘back to basics’ plan for schools proposed by the Australian Primary Principals Association (The Age, Thursday August 2nd, pg 1)
Whilst we acknowledge the primary curriculum needs to be ‘uncluttered’, and the proposed core areas of English, Maths, History and Science are important, some key questions must be asked. Is this an ideal model for education for the 21st century? It would appear that we are trying to travel back in time, rather than provide a curriculum that is forward looking. What sort of students are we trying to develop?
The creative and dynamic curriculum offered in Visual Art and Music prepares young people for the 21st century. Speaking at a business lunch last week, ANZ bank’s Chief Economist Saul Eslake said employers should look to the arts rather than other fields, for potential employees who have ‘the skills and attributes required for contemporary business’. He said that businesses that wanted their managers to be critical thinkers, innovative, challenge conventional wisdom and have the capacity to look at familiar themes from new angles, should look to role models from the arts.’ (The Herald Sun, Tuesday July 31st 2007, pg 28)
If, as Mr Eslake states, creative people give businesses the edge, then why are the primary principals ignoring this key area of the curriculum? Creativity is one of the major focus areas of discourse at present and we must not ignore the very subjects that embrace creativity as a foundation principle.
Schools must embrace the notion of creativity, and the primary principals must also. The most effective way of doing this is to ensure that every school, both primary and secondary provides a means for all students to study both art and music.
Tania Tickyj and Marian Strong
Members of the Executive
Art Education Australia
Art Education Australia is the nation's lead art education professional development body.
Art Education Australia Media Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday 3 August 2007
Lead art education body slams proposed ‘back to basics’ plan for schools
Australia’s lead art education professional association, Art Education Australia, today slammed the ‘back to basics plan for schools’ as myopic and backwards.
The plan, published in the Age on Thursday August 2nd and drafted by the Australian Primary Principals Association, proposed a new charter for key curriculum areas, with the focus on core areas such as English, Math, History and Science, leaving the other ‘non-core’ curriculum areas to the discretion of individual schools.
Art Education Australia President Tania Tickyj, said “whilst we acknowledge the primary curriculum needs to be ‘uncluttered’, and the proposed core areas are important, it would appear that we are trying to travel back in time, rather than provide a curriculum that is forward looking”.
“The so called ‘non-core’ curriculum areas such as the creative arts are essential, not only to a student’s individual development but to society as a whole”.
Ms Tickyj, the Curriculum Director of Mentone Girls Secondary College referred to a speech given at a business lunch last week by the ANZ bank’s Chief economist Saul Eslake who said employers should look to the arts rather than other fields, for potential employees who have ‘the skills and attributes required for contemporary businesses’.
“Mr Eslake told the lunch that businesses that wanted their managers to be critical thinkers, innovative, challenge conventional wisdom and have the capacity to look at familiar themes from new angles should look to role models from the arts.”
“Schools must embrace the notion of creativity, the primary principals must also. The most effective way of doing this is to ensure that every school, primary and secondary provides a means for all students to study both art and music.
“The creative and dynamic curriculum offered in Visual art and Music prepares young people for the 21st century. If as Mr Eslake states, creative people give businesses the edge why are the primary principals ignoring this Key area of the curriculum?”
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