Creative education and holistic learning
Since 1994, the Centre for Creative Communities has been working in the field of arts and education. We have advocated the development of a rich and full relationship between creativity and learning in both formal and informal settings. Through conferences, publications and reports we have reached out to a wide public to encourage the professionalisation of arts and education throughout Europe, to exchange methodology and to lobby governments to enable arts and education to link more effectively. In 2002, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, (Portugal) UK Branch, invited us to make our now considerable volume of information on the topic more widely available through the Internet. To meet this challenge we have incorporated the www.artsed.net site, formerly hosted by the Royal Society of the Arts, into this section of our website.
The Centre for Creative Communities believes that the arts and creativity can be used in a range of ways to develop and educate the whole person. The Centre has developed its
Common Threads methodology, commissioned by the Council of Europe and the Consortium of Institutions for Development and Research in Education in Europe (CIDREE); it is a multi-faceted initiative exploring the changes taking place in formal education, the arts and community development. This is one side of creativity and learning, another is how best can we embed the arts and culture in schools.
This section also covers a number of related issues involving the arts and education, for example the relationship between cultural institutions and schools, and the issue of teacher training and life long learning. Essays, papers, book reviews and case studies surrounding these areas can be browsed in our Reading Room, which we hope will provide those interested in innovative methods of education with many examples of how best to educate and develop the person as a whole, in a creative and broad manner throughout life, fostering diverse mental and emotional capacities with which to best engage and participate in our society.
Among the offerings in the Reading Room is a review of the influential Dutch research
A Must or A-Muse, which has done much to advance this field.
CCC’s Work contains the Centre’s work in this area.
Cultural Institutions and Education traces and analyses the interaction between cultural institutions and formal and informal learning centres.
Learning in the Arts looks at the debate surrounding the traditional concept of art and cultural education in the curriculum and at schools.
Learning through the Arts addresses the use of the arts as a method of learning life skills, of promoting inclusion, and of teaching other subjects and areas.
Training and Structures looks at the particular need for teacher training where artists are concerned, and more generally for the bettering of the education system.
Values and LifeWide Learning presents some theories on education and learning, addressing concepts such as holistic or multi-intelligence learning.
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