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Arts Education in Schools
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Arts Education in Schools
Currently the arts is included in the national curriculum for schools Phase 2 work being done by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA).
Towards the end of 2010 ACARA released the 'Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts' draft paper, their timeline for the development of the Arts Curriculum. To read the draft paper click on this link http://www.acara.edu.au/arts.html
After conducting a vigorous 5 year advocacy campaign for visual education, in 2008 NAVA joined with our peers in the four other arts disciplines (drama, dance, media and music) to form an advocacy group National Advocates for Arts Education (NAAE). We are collaborating to achieve an optimum outcome for all the arts in education.
However, the visual arts community has many concerns over the proposals in the Shape paper and have formed an action group the Visual Arts Consortium to lobby for change. To read about their concerns or join the campaign go to www.vadea.org.au/wordpress/
Previously, ACARA commissioned a small group of arts education specialists to advise on the first stage of the process. Art education academic Elizabeth Grierson provided specialist visual arts, craft and design input, working with the lead writer, Professor John O’Toole and other art form advisers to produce an initial ‘advice paper’. This was presented to a large national forum with experts from the full range of arts disciplines, as well as industry experts, teachers, professional associations and education authorities attending on 3 May.
The draft Arts Shape Paper was intended to be made available for public consultation at the end of July, but because of the federal election, its release was delayed until October. You now have the opportunity to comment and provide feedback to ACARA before the next stage commences.
As background to all this, from 2003 NAVA and the Visual Education Roundtable group it convenes achieved government support for a National Review of Visual Education (NRVE). NRVE’s report ‘First We See’ made four major recommendations in relation to visual education which provided the blueprint for subsequent negotiation. NAVA argues that the rapid development of the use of visual modes of communication (digital cameras, video phones, computers etc), means that visual education has become as essential for C21st kids as training in literacy and numeracy.
In May 2010, Tamara Winikoff NAVA’s Executive Director presented a paper at UNESCO’s Second World Conference on Arts Education.
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Read Tamara Winikoff's, NAVA’s Executive Director, 'First We See': Looking to the future. - presented at the UNESCO Second World Conference on Arts Education.
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