COLLABORATIVE LINKING & THINKING

CCC's Work

Mapping Room
Study, conducted by the Centre for Creative Communities in 2002-04, looking at collaborative practices among culture, education, community development, youth, health and social services in Europe. The initiative aimed to describe and analyse the complex picture emerging, as reflected in a shift towards policies that combine social and cultural objectives, and stimulate new forms of multidisciplinary practice. Research/Report

Creative Community Building - The Arts in Other Places: (PDF: 202 KB)Speech at the Vllams Theatre Institute in Brussels, Belgium, organised by Kunst en Democratie. Jennifer Williams talks about the role of the arts in ‘other places’; the many places that the arts, creativity and culture are working along side other sectors in society to reach people’s lives and to make a difference - Arts in the community and in an array of social and health settings. Speech

Emerging Models of Creativity at Work:
Jennifer Williams describes a new type of worker, neither social worker nor community learning professional, but someone working across professional boundaries with a creative approach to helping others develop their potential. Article

Finding the Common Threads:
This is an excerpt of the opening speech given by Jennifer Williams, CCC Director, with occasion of the second seminar part of our current project Finding the Common Threads. The seminar took place at Deutsche Bank’s London Headquarters on 21 March 2006. You have the option to download the full text of the speech and the Powerpoint presentation as PDFs.Speech

Interview with Jan-Bert van der Berg, Artlink, Scotland:
Here van der Berg discusses Artlink and its recent art in hospitals project, Fusion. The interview raises some interesting questions about the nature of collaborative practice, and discusses some of the problems connected with the arts’ role with holistic healthcare. Interview

Making Space for Creativity: the Changing Responsibilities of Arts Organisations and Artists in Contemporary Communities:
This speech by Jennifer Williams, given at the Creative City conference in Helsinki (1996) explores some of the partnerships the arts have formed which have been shown to be most effective in terms of building sustainable communities. Speech

More, Better, Different: (PDF: 409 KB)This report addresses the challenge of facilitating intercultural understanding and cultural diversity within the countries of the Council of Europe, looking in particular at the roles of cultural provision for young people. Research/Report

New Media and Urban Spaces:
Cristina Losito's article discusses the way in which new technologies are having a dramatic and pervasive effect on the structuring of society. Article

The Hybrid Worker:
Jennifer Williams describes a new type of worker, neither social worker nor community learning professional, but someone working across professional boundaries with a creative approach to helping others develop their potential.
Article - UK

The Role of Networks: (PDF: 40 KB)This 1995 speech by Jennifer Williams given with the occasion of the First World Culturelink Conference 'Dynamics of Communication and Cultural Change' stresses the need for the development of an international, cross-disciplinary network for the field of arts and education. It argues that once formed and functioning, such a network could provide rich opportunities for partnerships with other fields such as with organisations which work with youth and the elderly, organisations interested in work preparedness in the modern society, and organisations working on cross-cultural understanding and co-operation. Speech


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Community Development

Allen County Theatre Project: (PDF: 164 KB)This report summarizes the history and development of this successful Allen County Common Threads Project, an arts-based civic dialogue and community development theatre project based in Lima and Allen County Ohio, USA. Research/Report

Art In Other Places: Artists at Work in America’s Community and Social Institutions:
The book takes its name from the Arts in Other Places conference, organised by Artsreach in Los Angeles in 1986. The event, that was attended by other 100 practitioners, was to be of seminal importance in marking the emergence and the recognition of arts-based community development and those artists working in the field in the US. Book Summary

Being an Artist:
An inspiring talk by the artist Adrian Sinclair about his experience of working in the Methleys, a housing estate in Leeds. Speech

Belfast's Mount Vernon:
This case study explores the transformation of a Protestant community in Belfast known for its violent paramilitary past. Case Study

Can Do Citizens:
A review of Matthew Pike’s book, which draws upon practical experience, political philosophy, economics and policy analysis, to question what it will take to produce real and lasting change in communities. Book Summary

Communities Count; A Step-by-Step Guide to Community Sustainability Indicators:
A New Economics Foundation practical step by step guide for anyone interested in becoming involved in the process of community development through sustainability indicators. Book Summary

Communities: changing through learning:
This report came out of a working group established by the Scottish Office to provide advice on a long-term vision of community education for the region. It considers a national strategy for community based adult education, youth work and educational support for community development. Report Summary

Community, Culture and Globalisation:
These essays and stories illustrate the vital role that arts and culture can play in bringing about understanding and fostering social development and community development, particularly in the face of today’s challenges of the globalization process. Book Summary

Creative Community; The Art of Cultural Development:
Commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, this book traces the history of the community cultural development movement in the United States, and analyses the theory behind it by looking at programme models, themes and ideas. Book Summary

Creative Neighbourhoods: The role of the arts in building sustainable communities:
Written by Aston Housing Consultancy and jointly funded by the Housing Corporation and Arts Council England, this practical guide looks at the relationship between the housing and arts sectors and provides advice for housing managers, local authorities and resident groups looking to plan arts projects. Book Summary

Culture Builds Community Evaluation: (PDF: 668 KB)Between 1997 and 2002, the Social Impact of the Arts Project at the University of Pennsylvania served as the evaluator for Culture Builds Community, a community arts initiative of the William Penn Foundation. This summary report provides an overview of the initiative, SIAP’s findings concerning its success at achieving its goals, and the lessons it provides for other efforts to stimulate the community cultural sector. Report

Culture Counts in Communities: A Framework for Measurement:
An outline of the guiding principles and conceptual framework developed by the Urban Institute, USA, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation. Book Summary

Developing the Role of the Arts in UK Social Policy: (PDF: 335 KB)In this discussion paper, Gould aims to provide greater clarity and background information on current strategic directions in government linked to arts and social inclusion. It is primarily targeted at stimulating discussion in Arts Council England and within the community of artists and arts organisations working in social policy arenas. Please note that this report is not to be reproduced without permission of the publisher. Report

Elders Share the Arts (ESTA):
ESTA is an arts organisation dedicated to bridging generational divides and generating a sense of community through the arts. It works to transform life stories into dramatic, literary, and visual presentations that explore social issues and neighborhood history, and seek answers to community issues and conflicts. Case Study - USA

Emerging Paradigms in Organizational Approaches to Community Building: (PDF: 43 KB)This report commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation (USA) as part of its Active Public Space: The Role of Arts and Culture in Community Development Initiative, argues that for the past decade, activists, thinkers, and philanthropists in America’s community development and cultural fields have struggled to find ways to achieve broader social and civic objectives through their work whilst researchers have been trying to find ways to assess the impacts that organizations in these respective fields have on their communities. The author goes on to give examples of a new generation of organizations that defy previously defined organizational categories and have made a significant contribution to this work and to their respective communities. Report

Facilitating a Creative Life:
Jennifer Williams discusses the changing face of the artist’s role in society, and reviews methods of facilitating opportunities for artists. Held during Artists’ Residencies and Housing Conference, Helsinki, 1994. Speech

Joining In; An Investigation into Participatory Music:
This is a fascinating study of music in all of its forms and places in the UK. It links the research of recent years that music is good for us with the importance of seeing a broad picture of music making that is encouraged by easy access and a lack of elitism. It recommends a number of specific action points with regard to facilitating music making today. Book Review

Making Space for Creativity: (PDF: 73 KB)This speech by CCC's Director explores some of the partnerships the arts have formed which have been shown to be most effective in terms of building sustainable communities: communities in which people feel valued and have a sense of security, identity, belonging and purpose. Speech

Mapping the Field: Arts-Based Community Development:
The author discusses a number of projects concerned with arts-based community development in an attempt to map a new professional field. Article

Out of the Hopeless Box:
This report examines the Creative Neighbourhoods programme, which supported six partnership projects in London, UK, aimed at young people at risk of offending and, in some areas, to combat racism. Report

Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium:
This book investigates ways of creating fundamental social change in the face of the overwhelming challenges facing humankind at the start of the new millennium. The author presents new criteria for success, which will enable people to become more engaged at the personal, group, and community levels. Book Summary

Santropol Roulant:

Montreal-based Santropol Roulant is a volunteer organisation which brings people and groups together across cultures and generations through its meals-on-wheels service and intergenerational programmes. Case Study - Canada

Small is Beautiful:
This classic text of humanist economics is celebrated in a 25th anniversary edition, which brings Schumaker’s ideas into focus with commentaries by contemporary thinkers who analyse the impact of his philosophy on current political and economic thought. Book Summary

The CAN Report: State of the Field of Community Cultural Development:
This paper, based on a convening of 27 longtime US practitioners of community-based arts to reflect on the current state of their field, reviews changes in the field of community arts and make recommendations for its advancement.Report Summary

The Community Resilience Manual:
The Centre for Community Enterprise (CED), Canada, has developed this manual as a conceptual framework and process through which resource-dependent communities can work to strengthen local resilience. Report

Towards Asset-Based Community Cultural Development: (PDF: 121 KB)During 2002-2003, Tom Borrup, the author of this essay set off on a journey to learn more about the professions and organisations that focus on building the physical and economic dimensions of communities and to find where they intersect with the areas with which he was more familiar – the cultural, social and civic dimensions of communities. Looking for creative ways that these worlds might better connect. In this essay he reflects on some of the common ground and on a few of the more challenging areas of division found. Article

Towards a Local Culture Index: Measuring the Cultural Vitality of Communities:
This is a Comedia report tackling the precarious position the arts are in in finding suitable measures that truly reflect the value that arts contribute to the quality of life in our communities. Book Summary


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Crossing Sector Boundaries

Art in Other Places: Artists at Work in America's Community and Social Institutions:
Bill Cleveland traces the history of twenty-five arts programmes in a wide range of alternative settings including, prisons, hospitals, nursing homes for the elderly, mental institutions and youth detention systems. Book Summary

Artists and People:
Artists and People examines the formal attempt by art administrators to set up schemes for artists to work in community contexts. Book Summary

Arts and Non Arts Partnerships: (PDF: 200 KB)This report examines partnerships between the arts and non-arts sectors – such as education, health, youth development, community development. It draws on partnerships supported by the Wallace Foundation to offer lessons in: assessing the benefits of partnerships; choosing successful partnerships; identifying potential challenges; and developing strategies to maximise success. Report

Beyond Collaboration:
This speech by Jennifer Williams discusses developments in support for the arts in other countries, and the benefits to be gained from collaborative partnerships with other fields. Speech

Creating Synergistic Value: the Critical Linkages Between Learning, Creativity and Innovation: (PDF: 319 KB)This article from Leadership Compass Magazine considers learning, innovation and creativity as marketable resources, and discusses the key elements involved in managing and implementing these resources in such a way that they produce tangible outcome and exponential benefit. Essay

From Hierarchies to Networks:
Bert Mulder discusses the rapid changes taking place in our society and argues for the need to develop new organising principles with which to cope with these changes. Speech

In the Public Interest: Making Art that Makes a Difference in the USA:
This working paper forms part of the series ‘The Social Impact of Arts Programmes’, Comedia’s 4th major study of cultural policy, following research into libraries, parks and the creative city. Book Summary

Interview with Jan-Bert van der Berg, Artlink, Scotland:
Here van der Berg discusses Artlink and its recent art in hospitals project, Fusion. The interview raises some interesting questions about the nature of collaborative practice, and discusses some of the problems connected with the arts’ role with holistic healthcare. Interview

Merkur Bank:
Based in Denmark, Merkur Bank is a financial institution dedicated to making an impact on the development of society in a more sustainable way with regard to the environment and human development. It values cultural development as a highly important investment and the basis for future economic development. Case Study - EU

Partnership Matters: Current Issues in Cross-Sector Collaboration: (PDF: 279 KB)This paper published by the Copenhagen Centre examines current thinking and practice in cross-sector partnerships. It draws on original learning material from the Cross Sector Partnership Initiative, offering several propositions to guide further research and inform on-going efforts to collaborate across the sectors for development. Report

Small is Beautiful:
This classic text of humanist economics is celebrated in a 25th anniversary edition, which brings Schumaker’s ideas into focus with commentaries by contemporary thinkers who analyse the impact of his philosophy on current political and economic thought. Book Summary

The CAN Report: State of the Field of Community Cultural Development:
This paper, based on a convening of 27 longtime US practitioners of community-based arts to reflect on the current state of their field, reviews changes in the field of community arts and make recommendations for its advancement. Report Summary

The Core Arts Program, Mississippi, USA:
A description of this programme from Mississipi, USA, is a good example of effective collaborative partnerships that aim to combat social exclusion. Case Study - US

The Importance of Partnerships:
This article argues that, in the area of regeneration, it has become clear that there is a need for joined up thinking and improved cross-sectoral action to achieve a long lasting social impact. Article

The Public:
Formerly Jubilee Arts, this arts organisation has been a leader and pioneer in the field of community arts development in England for over 20 years and enjoys an international reputation for the quality of artistic product created directly with local communities and artists. Case Study - UK


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Cultural Policy

Arts in Their View: A Study of youth participation in the arts:
Using interviews from 700 people aged between 14- 24, this book investigates young people’s attitudes and experiences of the arts. It summarizes the results of empirical research from five areas across the UK, demonstrating trends and offering pointers for policy makers and youth arts facilitators on art provision both within and outside the school curriculum. Report Summary

Brisbane: Creative City: (PDF: 1222 KB)This is a draft policy statement outlining the next stage in Brisbane’s steps towards integrating creativity and cultural values across the Council’s programmes. This policy document reveals the Council’s strong understanding of the role culture and creativity play in the success of contemporary cities. Report

Building on PAT 10:
This progress report, drawing on the findings of the Department of Culture Media and Sport’s Policy Action Team (PAT) 10, captures the extent to which culture and leisure has become part of the neighbourhood renewal process in England. Report Summary

Capturing Cultural Value: (PDF: 274 KB)John Holden examines how we may best capture the value of culture, proposing a wholesale reshaping of the way in which public funding of culture is undertaken. Focusing of the assumptions underlying institutional structures and funding methodologies, he highlights the need for a language capable of reflecting, recognising and capturing the full range of values expressed through culture. Report

Creating opportunities:
Published by the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS), this is a detailed guide for local authorities in England developing Local Cultural Strategies. It sets out the government guidance to be followed and general management advice to be considered when developing a strategy. Report Summary

Cultural Cooperation in Europe: What Role for Foundations?: (PDF: 2175 KB)Published by the Network for European Foundations, this study aims to identify core policy trends and features adopted by foundations in the field of international cultural cooperation. It identifies the main challenges for cultural cooperation and preliminary recommendations to the current debate on its future framework, as well as providing advice for foundations on possible policies, strategies, actions and tools. Report

Cultural Policy: A Short Guide:
A handbook for all those across Europe involved in the cultural policy-making process, in particular students of cultural management, political parties, umbrella organisations, administrators or cultural institutions and artists. Book Summary

From Words to Action; Do Meetings Matter for Cultural Policy?: (PDF: 1569 KB)This monograph discusses whether and how meetings and policy forums have an impact on the cultural sector, and makes suggestions for how to use meetings more effectively to advance policy for the arts and culture. Article

In from the Margins – A Contribution to the Debate on Culture and Development in Europe:
This is a report produced by policy makers, researchers and cultural managers for the Council of Europe as a contribution to the debate on interdepartmental structures, which the World Commission on Culture and Development initiated in 1996. Book Summary

Making it Home: Europe and the Politics of Culture:
This book is an historically insightful and poetically written argument for investing in European culture and arts. It addresses the need to create a Europe which feels like home for all its citizens, without reducing its diverse historical and cultural characteristics. Book Summary

Our Creative Diversity - A report of the World Commission for Culture and Development:
In this report the Commission explores the complex interactions between culture and development, and puts forward proposals to help the international community deal with them better. Book Summary

Research in the Arts and Cultural Industries: (PDF: 83 KB)This report is based on a two-and-a-half-day workshop, held from the 24th to the 26th of June 2001 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The topic of the workshop was Research in the Arts and Cultural Industries in the US and in Europe, with the aim of comparing the state of arts and cultural research on both sides of the Atlantic. Research/Report

Some Considerations for Third Sector Funders Interested in International Activity:
This paper discusses developments in international cultural exchange and their implications for cultural policy and funding possibilities. Article

The Fourth Pillar Of Sustainability: Culture’s Essential Role in Public Planning:
In the Fourth Pillar of Sustainability, Jon Hawkes argues that culture represents many of the intangible aspects of our values, customs and patterns of life that are often ignored in government thinking and action. Book Summary

The Politics of Culture; Policy Perspectives for Individuals, Institutions and Communities:
Extensive anthology of essays and articles written from the different perspectives of policymakers, artists and scholars. It addresses culture’s role in modern society, and analyses contemporary issues in cultural policy in the US and worldwide. Book Summary

The Role of Networks: (PDF: 40 KB)This 1995 speech by Jennifer Williams given with the occasion of the First World Culturelink Conference 'Dynamics of Communication and Cultural Change' stresses the need for the development of an international, cross-disciplinary network for the field of arts and education. It argues that once formed and functioning, such a network could provide rich opportunities for partnerships with other fields such as with organisations which work with youth and the elderly, organisations interested in work preparedness in the modern society, and organisations working on cross-cultural understanding and co-operation. Speech

Towards Cultural Citizenship: Tools for Cultural Policy and Development:
Written in collaboration with world wide researchers and specialists, this publication is a Swedish contribution to the Stockholm Action Plan, a UNESCO initiative aimed at presenting principles and policy objectives for strengthening the knowledge base for culture and human development. Book Summary


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Leadership

Activists Speak Out:
In Activists Speak Out, a group of 15 American activists from all backgrounds, walks of life and points of view, speak out about how and why they struggle for change. Their causes and strategies vary– in the areas of civil rights, gay and lesbian rights, the environment, women's issues, health, youth, education, labour, freedom of expression, and the arts. Book Summary

Common Sense and Common Ground: Survival Skills for Artists Working in Communities and Social Institutions:
Bill Cleveland addresses methods and routes for artists working in the community to adopt. The aim of the essay is to contribute to the learning process involved in this growing professional field. Article

Future Search:
This book, which draws on the Future Search method of large group planning, is a guide for people seeking sustainable action on common ground in organisation and communities. Book Summary

Leadership Development: Educating Self Aware Leaders: (PDF: 142 KB)This article from Leadership Compass Magazine discusses leadership development for all organisational levels, and the need for designing creative processes and innovative leaderships strategies.Article

Making Connections: A Challenge to Leadership: (PDF: 129 KB)This keynote speech by Peter Renshaw, given at the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane discusses the current challenges for professional music training institutions. Speech

The New State of Leadership Practice for an Emerging Era: (PDF: 127 KB)This article from Leadership Compass Magazine discusses the need for a new type of leadership that is equipped to deal with the “the shift from hierarchical organisations to a networked, highly interconnected reality”. Article

The Professions- Grounds for Hope in Scotland: (PDF: 139 KB)This speech by Professor Bart McGettrick reflects the social contexts and social effects of the professions in Scotland. Speech

The Spirit of Leadership; Liberating the Leader in Each of Us:
Open Space founder, Harrison Owen calls for a new kind of leader, one who flows with rather than fights against change. In doing so, he also presents the radical notion that spirit is the most important ingredient of any organisation. Book Summary


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The Role of New Technologies

Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation and Creativity:
This is an executive summary of this book which argues that that creativity plays a crucial role in culture and in our social and educational worlds, and that presents the findings of a project that set out to study the links between information technology and creativity. Book Summary

Culture, Technology and Creativity in the Late Twentieth Century:
This is the second volume in a series on the way the media and technology have transformed our understanding of art. This collection of essays by a variety of authors explores the interrelation between technology and creativity in the late Twentieth Century. Book Summary

Flowers Are Red:
This is a transcribed speech by Maggie Pollard from the 1999 Common Threads conference in Glasgow. It discusses the creative use of ICT at Richmond Park school. Speech

Grammars of Creation:
In Grammars of Creation, George Steiner seeks to articulate our experience of the present condition, by exploring the complex relations between ‘creation’ and ‘invention’ in literature and science, music and mathematics. The author explains how radically the electronic media are changing the ways in which we communicate and generate meaning. Book Summary

New Media and Urban Spaces:
Cristina Losito's article discusses the way in which new technologies are having a dramatic and pervasive effect on the structuring of society. Article

Northern Visions:
Northern Visions is a media arts centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which offers training and resources in digital video, television and new media. Case Study – UK

The City in the Information Society: a Development Perspective:
This article argues for a bringing together of technological, social and political domains into a coherent whole that allows all spheres and sectors to harness the potential of ICT, in order to better the quality of living in a society. Article

Young People, Creativity and New Technologies: The Challenge of Digital Arts:
A series of case studies that document the use of ‘digital arts’ and Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) across the school and community arts curriculum as well as in the lives of young people. Book Summary


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Urban and Rural Development

Brisbane: Creative City Policy: (PDF: 1222 KB)This is a draft policy statement outlining the next stage in Brisbane’s steps towards integrating creativity and cultural values across the Council’s programmes. This policy document reveals the Council’s strong understanding of the role culture and creativity play in the success of contemporary cities. Report

Building on PAT 10:
This progress report, drawing on the findings of the Department of Culture Media and Sport’s Policy Action Team (PAT) 10, captures the extent to which culture and leisure has become part of the neighbourhood renewal process in England. Report Summary

Community Programs in the Arts (COMPAS):
This widely used resource for artist residencies and community-building through the art engages approximately 400,000 people in the arts in Minnesota towns each year. The organisation's Minnesota Rural Arts Initiative programme set out to build the community and redefine leadership development. Case Study - USA

Creating opportunities:
Published by the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS), this is a detailed guide for local authorities in England developing Local Cultural Strategies. It sets out the government guidance to be followed and general management advice to be considered when developing a strategy. Report Summary

Creative Cities, Urban Development and the Information Society:
Creative Cities is a collection of essays, together with key presentations given at the Creative City conference, held in Helsinki in 1996. The book analyses strategies and effects of cultural innovations and cultural industries on urban development, within the context of the information society. Book Summary

Creative Neighbourhoods: The role of the arts in building sustainable communities:
Written by Aston Housing Consultancy and jointly funded by the Housing Corporation and Arts Council England, this practical guide looks at the relationship between the housing and arts sectors and provides advice for housing managers, local authorities and resident groups looking to plan arts projects. Book Summary

Creative Spaces: a Toolkit for Participatory Urban Design:
This booklet was launched by the Architecture Foundation, in conjunction with the publication of the Urban White Paper (2000), with the aim to set out an agenda for creativity in participatory urban design. Creative Spaces aims to present inclusive, holistic and creative approaches to involving communities in urban design. Book Summary

Culture at the Heart of Regeneration: (PDF: 783 KB)Published by the UK's Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), this consultation document aims to build on the evidence and strengthen the use of culture in regeneration projects. The report looks at the regenerative effects of large cultural buildings as well as smaller community initiatives, assesses the economic and social benefits of cultural regeneration, and poses a series of questions designed to engage a wide range of stakeholders. See below for a PDF of the Summary of Responses to this report. Report

Culture at the Heart of Regeneration: Summary of Responses: (PDF: 164 KB)Summary paper of over 100 responses to the DCMS report Culture at the Heart of Regeneration, which examined the use of culture in regeneration projects. Report

Fewer than Six: A Study of Creativity and Regeneration in Yorkshire and the Humber:
Commissioned by Yorkshire Arts for a non-arts audience, this report has been promoted by both Arts Council England and the Scottish Executive as a key text on culture in regeneration. The study explores the context and delivery of cultural projects within Yorkshire and the Humber between October 2001 and March 2002. Report

Imagination and Regeneration:
This study reviews how the debate on culture and cities has developed world-wide over the last decade. It seeks to help readers identify and understand the cultural potential of their cities, then to exploit and maximize their cultural resources in order to manage and implement a cultural strategy. Report

Making Space for Creativity: the Changing Responsibilities of Arts Organisations and Artists in Contemporary Communities:
This speech by Jennifer Williams, given at the Creative City conference in Helsinki (1996) explores some of the partnerships the arts have formed which have been shown to be most effective in terms of building sustainable communities. Speech

Pomegranate Centre:
Washington-based Pomegranate Center is a non-profit community design and development organisation integrating social, artistic and environmental perspectives into the creation of meaningful community spaces and inclusive community-based planning. Case Study - USA

St. Jude's Future Environment Project: Making Fish:
Developed at St. Jude's Primary School in Glasgow, this child-based project about a real built environment problem engaged pupils to work with artists and designers to develop ideas about improving their school environment. Case Study - UK

The Arts in Urban Renaissance:
This publication from Arts Council England, South East provides a snapshot of the vital role the arts play in revitalising urban communities. It draws on debates from the ‘Urban Renaissance - Action in the South East’ conference in January 2000, which focused on the major urban renewal and regeneration projects planned for the region. Report

The Contribution of Culture to Regeneration in the UK: (PDF: 607 KB)This paper was commissioned by the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) to inform the preparation of a policy document on the contribution of cultural activity to regeneration. It reviews evidence-based literature on the impact of culture on social, economic and environmental regeneration in the UK, presents examples of best practice in the design and delivery of projects and in the measurement of impacts, and gives recommendations based on these findings. Report

The Creative City: a Toolkit for Urban Innovators:
Charles Landry highlights the need for a creative approach to urban development, one which is based on the exploitation of local cultural resources and the centrality of imagination. Book Summary

Turning Point:
This article by Phil Wood, Comedia, is a personal account of how a local authority arts officer got involved in urban regeneration. Article


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CITIZENSHIP & DIVERSITY

CCC's Work

Artists Without Frontiers; International Artistic Exchanges: Today's Trends and Challenges:
Speech given by Jennifer Williams at UNESCO's Artists Across Frontiers roundtable on June 28 and 29, 1993. The speech focuses on the trends and challenges then faced by international artistic exchanges. Speech

Common Threads: An Agenda for Active Citizenship:
Overview of this international symposium, organised by the Centre for Creative Communities, which took place in February 2003 in London. Report

Creating Healthy Communities:
The author discusses the growing acknowledgement that health involves more than the absence of disease and that there is a place for the arts in the prevention and treatment of illness. Article

Culture, Creativity and Citizenship in Scotland: (PDF: 393 KB)This report discusses the links between culture, creativity and citizenship, illustrating the challenges faced by Scotland today with a number of engaging case studies. Report

New Strategies for the UK Women's Sector:
This is a description of our latest project, commissioned by the List Family Foundation Ltd. that is exploring the social, political and economic contexts in which UK women's organisations operate. The consultation aims to lay the groundwork for a sector-wide strategic development facility. Project


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Citizenship and Civil Society

A Call To Action: The Civworld Citizens’ Campaign:
The CivWorld Citizens’ Campaign for Democracy, a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, is a call to action—an appeal for interdisciplinary work across the boundaries of theory and practice that issue in meaningful civic action for a more democratic planet. Article

Activists Speak Out:
In Activists Speak Out, a group of 15 American activists from all backgrounds, walks of life and points of view, speak out about how and why they struggle for change. Their causes and strategies vary – in the areas of civil rights, gay and lesbian rights, the environment, women's issues, health, youth, education, labour, freedom of expression, and the arts. Book Summary

Arts under Pressure: Promoting Cultural Diversity in the Age of Globalization:
This book analyses how the processes of globalisation have endangered basic cultural rights and creative diversity, and argues for the protection of cultural diversity and the rethinking of intellectual property rights. Book Summary

Better Together: Restoring the American Community:
In Better Together, the authors describe some of the diverse locations and ways in which civic renewal is taking place today. The book tells the stories of people who, in response to civic crisis and local problems, are building and strengthening communities to solve specific problems. Book Summary

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community:
Drawing on vast data that reveals Americans’ changing behaviourBowling Alone investigates how social structures have disintegrated in the country. It highlights the harm that these broken bonds have wreaked on the country’s physical and civic health, and the importance that these bonds have in creating a society that is happy, well educated and safe. Book Summary

Common Threads: The Drawing Together:
This is the concluding paper from the international symposium Common Threads: An Agenda for Active Citizenship and analyses the thoughts and ideas on promoting active citizenship broached by the conference. Article

Connexity: Responsibility, Freedom, Business and Power in the New Century:
Connexity addresses the fundamental conflict that exists between the freedoms enjoyed by many, mainly in the Western world, and the growing economic interdependence of so many more worldwide. The book seeks to determine whether the achievements of freedom and the growth of interdependence are compatible. Book Summary

Cosmopolitan Britain or the Politics of Fear?:
This essay discusses the problems faced by a politics that links citizenship and culture and questions how we can collectively deal with perceived threats and cultural difference. Article

Culture and Citizenship:
This collection of essays analyses the relationship between culture and citizenship and their significance in the context of contemporary society. Book Summary

Culture and Civil Society: New Relationships with the Third Sector:
The intention of this paper is to formulate better the nature of the relationship between culture and civil society. It looks at the implications of this relationship and highlights examples of interesting practice. Book Summary

Culture, Citizenship and Identity in the Global Age:
This article discusses how, as the importance of national borders decreases, culture becomes the crucial factor in shaping identities, affiliation and conflict in contemporary societies. Article

Democracy is a Discussion I & II:
These two handbooks, edited by Sondra Myers, are the products of a Connecticut College project based on the premise that civil civic discussion is at the heart of the democratic process. Book Summary

Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity:
Disclosing New Worlds argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the everyday practices of their culture - that is, when they are making history. The authors identify entrepreneurship, democratic action, and the cultivation of solidarity as three major arenas in which people make history. Book Summary

Habits of the Heart and The Good Society:
These books, published in 1985 and 1991 respectively, have helped a generation of people interested in community building appreciate on the one hand the relationship of individualism and commitment (Habits of the Heart) and how our institutions - political, economic, educational and religious bodies - are what we make them (The Good Society). Book Summary

Organised Citizens for Power: (PDF: 89 KB)This article discusses the organisation Young Citizens, and analyses political power within and for young people in the modern world. Article

Restoring Civil Society:
In this chapter taken from the Cato Handbook for Congress, Palmer offers suggestions to the members of the US congress as to how civil society may be restored in the U.S. Report

Something for Everyone: (PDF: 374 KB)In this paper, Jenny Watson, British Institute for Human Rights, analyses the impact of the Human Rights Act and proposes further steps which might be necessary if human rights culture is to take root in England and Wales. Research/Report

The Democracy Reader:
This reader is a compendium volume that combines a collection of civic stories with a revised and updated version of the Democracy is a Discussion handbooks. Book Summary

The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society:
In The New Golden Rule, Etzioni, the founder of the communitarian movement, invites us to examine how a communitarian society should operate in practice and what social values we must bring to our social interactions if we are to achieve stronger and more enduring communities. Book Summary


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Culture and Identity

Allen County Theatre Project: (PDF: 167 KB)This report summarizes the history and development of this successful Allen County Common Threads Project, an arts-based civic dialogue and community development theatre project based in Lima and Allen County Ohio, USA. Research/Report

Artists Without Frontiers; International Artistic Exchanges: Today's Trends and Challenges:
Speech given by Jennifer Williams at UNESCO's Artists Across Frontiers roundtable on June 28 and 29, 1993. The speech focuses on the trends and challenges then faced by international artistic exchanges. Speech

Arts Access Aotearoa:
Arts Access Aotearoa is a charitable trust whose objectives are to ensure that people and communities of New Zealand have unhindered access to the arts, and opportunities to create, perform and develop their own arts. Case Study

Arts in Their View: A Study of youth participation in the arts:
Using interviews from 700 people aged between 14- 24, this book investigates young people’s attitudes and experiences of the arts. It summarizes the results of empirical research from five areas across the UK, demonstrating trends and offering pointers for policy makers and youth arts facilitators on art provision both within and outside the school curriculum. Report Summary

Better Together: Restoring the American Community:
In Better Together, the authors describe some of the diverse locations and ways in which civic renewal is taking place today. The book tells the stories of people who, in response to civic crisis and local problems, are building and strengthening communities to solve specific problems. Book Summary

Charnwood Arts:
This independent community arts and media organisation based in Charnwood in the East Midlands of the UK encourage cultural development through combined arts work and a wide range of approaches from long term community arts projects, performances, outdoor events and publications to websites, CD-ROM and video productions, school and community residencies, exhibitions and ongoing groups. Case Study - UK

Globalisation, Music & Identity: (PDF: 132 KB)This paper explores some of the ways in which musicians might respond to the issues identified by Simon Mundy (2000) in his background guide Music and Globalisation. Article

Globalizing Audiences: Kiasma Museum:
This paper discusses the way globalization is transforming art and describes two school-year-long projects that took place at the museum, involving immigrant children and their parents. Article

More, Better, Different: (PDF: 409 KB)This report addresses the challenge of facilitating intercultural understanding and cultural diversity within the countries of the Council of Europe, looking in particular at the roles of cultural provision for young people. Report

Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture:
The essays in this book illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums and communities, examining the often controversial interactions between museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation and the communities they profess to represent and serve. Book Summary

Reclaiming the Centre:
Engaging speech by Bill Cleveland that argues for the need to re-establish the arts and their creative processes as basic elements of all aspects of our communities. Speech

Shaming the Devil: (PDF: 122 KB)One of 13 essays in Critical Perspectives: Writings on Art and Civic Dialogue, published by American for the Arts in September 2005. It explores art, civic dialogue, and reflective critical writing by focusing on three compelling and very different projects supported by Animating Democracy, a programme that fosters civic engagement through arts and culture.
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The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena:
An anthology of articles featured in the magazine High Performance, from 1978-1998. The collection brings forth the voices of artists who formed the backbone of debates about issues facing the public artist today. Book Summary

The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era:
This book presents an alternative approach to ‘multiculturalism’, developing an understanding of cultures as continually creating, re-creating and renegotiating the imagined boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’. Book summary

The Journey:
A charming and beautiful book brought to life by Macia Hutchinson, a lawyer and writer from Huddersfield. Each chapter, through photos and text tells the story of someone who emigrated from the West Indies to the UK. Book Summary

The Public Culture: An Argument with the Future:
In The Public Culture, Horne examines how a society constructs its culture through its political and moral rhetoric and media. This second edition analyses specifically how societies, no longer able to rely on the eroding concept of the nation, will be structured in the future. Book Summary

The Twinned Choirs Project:
A large-scale community based choral project organised by Cross-Border Music Projects and funded by Co-operation Ireland which aimed to develop relationship through music in a cross-border context. Case Study - UK/EU


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Health and Well-Being

Arts for Health:
This non-profit organisation aims to work with and unite artists, designers and health professionals in improving the quality of life for those involved in providing and receiving health and community care. Case Study - UK

Arts, Health and Community:
This book is a study of five community-based arts in health projects in the UK funded through grants from the King’s Fund, the Nuffield Trust, and Northern Rock Foundation carried out between 1999 and 2001. Book Summary

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital:
This is a case study of Chelsea and Wesminster Hospital's innovative art programme, which boasts an impressive contemporary art collection and used to be a regular host to performance arts, including music, dance, theatre, storytelling, mime and puppetry. Case Study - UK

Common Knowledge: (PDF: 88 KB)A description of Common Knowledge, the major programme of experimental work which began in 2000 and used arts based approaches to examine health in Newcastle. Case Study

Core Arts:
This arts charity exists to promote, freely and without prejudice, the artistic and creative abilities of people who experience severe and enduring mental health problems. Case Study - UK

Creating Healthy Communities:
The author discusses the growing acknowledgement that health involves more than the absence of disease and that there is a place for the arts in the prevention and treatment of illness. Article

Creative Connections: Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing through Community Arts Participation:
This document details learnings from the Community Arts Participation (CAP) Scheme funded by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation in Australia. The programme marked a move away from investment in the arts through sponsorships with a health message toward a more integrated and involved partnership with arts and community organisations. Report Summary

Do You Do Queen? - Music In Hospitals:
Mike White describes the effects of an innovative music programme in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a North East hospital. Article

Entelechy:
Entelechy is an arts company dedicated to the arts to enable adults with learning disabilities to work with others from their communities in new and valued ways. Working in partnership and collaboration with their members and other organisations, they aim to produce high quality theatre, dance, music, and video productions through investment in, rather than exclusion of, those with the greatest needs. Case Study - UK

Imagining a Perfect World: (PDF: 57 KB)This is a report on Imagine London, an ambitious five-year programme that provided a unique opportunity for young people across the capital to build and articulate their own visions of a healthy city. Report

Lime:
This arts organisation acts as a channel between the arts world and the health world by developing, coordinating and implementing a wide range of arts projects in healthcare settings. Emphasis is placed on collaborative artistic practice involving health service staff and those they serve. Case Study – UK

The Arts in Healthcare: Learning from Experience:
This King’s Fund publication looks at some very different arts in healthcare projects, from design in hospitals to the use of the visual and performing arts. Book Summary

Walsall Community Arts:
Walsall Community Arts uses an innovative approach to linking the arts with health education without compromising quality production. The Men's Health 2000 project revealed the flexibility and versatility of the arts, and the manner in which trusting partnerships can gradually be formed with great results for the community and for health awareness. Case Study - UK

Well-Being: The Arts and Community Involvement: (PDF: 127 KB)Jennifer Williams discusses how the arts help to achieve the goal of promoting human well-being. Speech


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Social Inclusion and Exclusion

Acting Out Company:
A description of Acting Out Company, founded in 1996 by Saul Hewish, who has extensive experience of working in prisons, young offenders institutions, residential units, special hospitals and a variety of local authority settings throughout the UK and the US. Case Study - UK

Anne Peaker Centre for Arts in Criminal Justice:
Formerly The Unit for the Arts and Offenders, this is the national umbrella organisation that supports the development of the arts within criminal justice settings. Case Study - UK

Artibarri Project, Barcelona, Spain:
A description of this Catalan network of projects, professionals and associations that advocate the importance of creativity, culture and education within processes of social inclusion and community development that concern at-risk youth. Case Study - EU

Arts and Social Exclusion:
This report, which was commissioned by Arts Council England to support its two-year social inclusion research programme, examines the impact of arts in addressing social exclusion. The study covers a range of practice, stretching from community-led projects where the initiative for arts activity comes from local communities, to established arts organisations who are relatively new to this area of work. Report

Arts in Prisons:
This publication has been compiled by the Unit for Arts and Offenders (now the Anne Peaker Centre for Arts in Criminal Justice) to highlight examples of purposeful arts programmes in prisons, and to encourage those concerned with the provision and development of such programmes. Report Summary

Cardboard Citizens:
A description of Cardboard Citizens, the only homeless people professional theatre company in the UK. Case Study - UK

Changing Lives: the social impact of the arts:
This report is one of a series produced by the Scottish Arts Council looking at the role of the arts in Scotland today. Through ten case studies, it examines in detail the social impacts of the arts on individuals and on communities. Report Summary

Cooperations:
COOPERATIONS, based in Luxembourg, is a non-profit enterprise acting in culture, education and social inclusion. Its programmes promote the interaction between art, social participation and rural development. Case Study - EU

Creative Solutions and Social Inclusion: Culture and the Community:
This publication from Arts Access Aotearoa, New Zealand, looks at partnerships between the social service and arts sectors, which strive to encourage social inclusion through the arts. Book Summary

Developing the Role of the Arts in UK Social Policy: (PDF: 335 KB)In this discussion paper, Gould aims to provide greater clarity and background information on current strategic directions in government linked to arts and social inclusion. It is primarily targeted at stimulating discussion in Arts Council England and within the community of artists and arts organisations working in social policy arenas. Please note that this report is not to be reproduced without permission of the publisher. Report

From Ice to Fire – Arts in Health for Social Inclusion:
The Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine (CAHHM) was invited to speak at a Downing Street seminar in May 2003 on arts and social inclusion. Mike White and Mary Robson present here some of the issues they raised at that seminar. Article

Nourishing The Heart: A Guide to Intergenerational Arts Projects in the Schools:
Nourishing The Heart is about encouraging interchange between the ages in a schools environment. It is a resource book for teachers, based around innovative intergenerational workshops. Book Summary

Sharing Practice: A Guide to Self Evaluation:
This report is the outcome of a two-year Social Inclusion Programme launched in 2000 by Arts Council England, and is a guide for artists, arts organisations and funders working in the context of social exclusion to develop their own practice. Report

Social Exclusion – Can human rights make a difference?:
Candy Whittome, British Institute of Human Rights, argues that human rights are an essential and basic aspect of combatting social exclusion and promoting active citizenship. Speech

Theatre of the Oppressed:
Augusto Boal developed a series of imaginative theatre exercises which promote awareness of one’s social situation and its limitations. Combining analysis and practice, this book is indispensable to those interested in dramatic theory and performance technique. Book Summary

Use or Ornament: The Social Impact of Participation in the Arts:
This influential publication analyses the social benefits of arts-based projects, from amateur to professional to community work, clearly revealing the important role that the arts can play by drawing on case studies in the UK, Ireland, Finland and New York. Book Summary


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CREATIVITY & LEARNING

CCC's Work

Arts and Education: A Taxonomy of Possibilities:
A discussion on the field of arts and education, and an analysis of the benefits of teaching art in schools. Speech

At the Intersection of the Arts, Education and Contemporary Society:
This paper traces some of the Centre for Creative Communities initiatives, and asks how we can best encourage people to acquire a hunger for, and have the opportunity for, learning throughout their lives. Article

But Can It Help?:
This speech addresses the growing interest on the part of artists and others about ways in which artists can work in collaboration with non-artists towards shared goals, and it looks at effects on the practice of artists working in projects that have educational goals. Speech

Common Threads Programme:
Commissioned by the Consortium of Institutions for Development and Research in Education in Europe (CIDREE), this multi-faceted project was designed to understand the growing interdependence of various sectors of society as we endeavour to find ways to combat social apathy, promote participation and creativity and encourage a sense of well being in society. Report

Common Threads: Participation for a Better World: (PDF: 1178 KB)This report represents the direct outcome of Common Threads: Participation for a Better World, a three day event comprising of an exhibition and conference held in September 1999, as part of Glasgow 1999: UK City of Architecture and Design. The goal is to study and develop the theory that achievement in education can be improved when schools play a more active and direct role in community development. Report

Creative Tensions: (PDF: 59 KB)This report looks at some of the reasons, both spoken and unspoken, why arts institutions have made education a key part of their overall programmes. It examines, in some detail, the attitudes of various sections of the institutions toward their education programmes. Research/Report

Finding The Common Threads:
(Part of the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum series Perspectives on Values in Education, 1997). This paper looks at the benefits of a creative education and discusses both the presence of the arts in schools as part of the content and structure of teaching, and the growing interest in education by artists and arts organisations. Article

Rethinking Training:
Cristina Losito discusses how building learning communities is a central goal of the 21st century, and argues that creativity and innovation should be regarded as primary tools in the effort to achieve this task. Article

Tales of the City - The experience of REAL learning:
CCC and the International Futures Forum, were commissioned by Scottish Enterprise Glasgow to conduct a qualitative analysis of the REAL Partnership, a Glasgow-based learning programme. Designed to increase access to learning opportunities appropriate for the 21st century, REAL sees itself operating in a world of rapid change and complexity requiring new capacities and skills. Over 125,000 people from Glasgow have taken part and there is wide acclaim for its effective styles of learning.Report

Training and Development in Arts and Education:
The author analyses the problem of the training and development of those working in the field of arts and education. Article


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Cultural Institutions and Education

Acts of Achievement: the Role of Performing Arts Centers in Education:
In 2000 the Dana Foundation extended its support of education to improve teaching of the performing arts in public schools. This publication looks at the resulting education programmes that were offered by performing arts centres throughout the U.S., and showcases performing arts institutions, large and small, that partnered with their local schools. Book Summary

Close Collaborations:
This report provides specific ways of approaching art within the framework of the national curriculum in the UK, which place the use of resources such as artists, exhibitions, galleries and museums as an integral component of any school art curriculum. Report Summary

Crossing The Line: Extending Young People’s Access to Cultural Venues:
This book published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation analyses ways to widen young people’s cultural inclusion and extending young people’s access to cultural venues. Book Summary

Culture and Creativity: The Next Ten Years:
The aim of this UK Green Paper is to set out a framework for creativity for the next ten years, particularly in the areas of media and culture. The paper, which places creativity at the centre of the country’s identity, economy and future, recognizes the vital role that culture and creativity play in children’s development, in providing opportunities for employment and in overcoming social exclusion. Book Summary

Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display:
Throwing open to debate the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts and implicit assumptions that govern how cultural differences and art objects are displayed. Book Summary

Making Their Marks/Visual Paths to Literacy:
Visual Path is a major three year art and literacy initiative involving around a thousand children from deprived areas of the inner city of London. Read a short summary of Colin Grigg’s books, or follow his speech describing the initiative and the conceptual framework in which the project evolved. Book Summary and Speech

Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture:
The essays in this book illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums and communities, examining the often controversial interactions between museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation and the communities they profess to represent and serve. Book Summary

Safe Havens; Portraits of Educational Effectiveness in Community Arts Centres that focus on Education in Economically Disadvantaged Communities:
In its two-year study, Project CoArts examined numerous examples of community centres of learning. They describe a vision of a field of arts education that is filled with potential as it is threatened with failure. Book Summary

The Great Museum: The Re-presentation of History:
The Great Museum is a look at European history as reflected in its monuments. The book takes up the great historic subjects - the church, the nation, the rise of capitalism, the labour movement, fascism - and shows how through its museums and monuments each state presents its own view of the past. Book Summary

Visual Paths: Teaching Literacies in the Gallery:
Visual Paths is a major three year art and literacy initiative involving around a thousand children from deprived areas of the inner city of London. Read a short summary of Colin Grigg’s books, or follow his speech describing the initiative and the conceptual framework in which the project evolved. Book Summary and Speech


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Learning in the Arts

A Must Or A-Muse: Arts and Culture in Education: Policy and Practice in Europe - Conference Reader and Conference Results:
This is the report of the conference 'A Must or A-Muse,' which took place in The Netherlands in September 2001. The report is concerned with the four themes of the conference: education policy and in-school cultural education in Europe; cultural policy and in-school cultural education in Europe; the practice of in-school cultural education in Europe, and research into the evaluation of cultural education policy and practice. Report

ART(S) AT SCHOOLS: 5 years of cultural projects in Flemish schools:
This is a collection of interviews, essays, case studies and photographs about people who are managing to integrate arts and culture into education. Book Summary

Arts and Education: A Taxonomy of Possibilities:
A discussion on the field of arts and education, and an analysis of the benefits of teaching art in schools. Speech

Behind Wise Eyes:
This report outlines the West Dorset Arts in Education Project, UK, a major multi-disciplinary programme that ran from February to June 1989. Initiated by South West Arts, the programme was established as a model that could be promoted regionally and nationally. Report Summary

Beyond Enrichment:
Essays by and interviews with over 40 leaders in arts education explore the importance of linking schools with a community’s arts and cultural resource. Book Summary

CANON- Cultural Unit of the Education Department, Flanders, Belgium:
An overview of CANON, an organisation which aims to give art and culture a full and active role in all levels of education, from nursery schools to higher education. Case Study - EU

Evaluating Creativity: Making and Learning by Young People:
This book raises questions about how creative work can be evaluated and about the function of evaluation in general. It further addresses the role creative work plays in schools. Book Summary

MELINA Project-Education and Culture:
An overview of the MELINA project, whose aim was to evaluate the cultural dimension in education and to instil everyday school life with the indissoluble power of art and culture. Article

She Danced and We Danced; Artists, Creativity and Education:
This publication is about the role of artists and other creative professionals in education. It is based on the principle that education is no more confined exclusively to schools, but has to be seen in context with other forms of community’s education system. Book Summary

The Arts in Schools: Principles, Practices and Provisions:
Ken Robinson is concerned in this book with the essential place of art in education and the importance of arts as a crucial element in a balanced curriculum. Book Summary


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Learning through the Arts

Arts Education in Secondary Schools:
This report presents the results of a three-year study of the effects and effectiveness of arts education in secondary schools in England and Wales. It set out to investigate the range of outcomes attributable to arts education, in particular the argument that engagement in the arts can boost general academic performance. Report Summary

Building Better Relationships with Schools:
This publication, based on research carried out by Eastern Touring Agency, examines how arts professionals may increase communication with schools and work with them more effectively and creatively. Report Summary

But Can It Help?:
The speech addresses the growing interest on the part of artists and others about ways in which artists can work in collaboration with non-artists towards shared goals, and it looks at effects on the practice of artists working in projects that have educational goals. Speech

Champions of Change; The Impact of the Arts on Learning:
This book argues that learners can attain higher levels of achievement through their engagement with the arts. One of the critical research findings is that learning in and learning through the arts can help ‘level the playing field’ for youngsters from disadvantaged backgrounds. Book Summary

Changing Schools through the Arts: How to Build on the Power of an Idea:
This book examines how to establish strategies for getting the arts in schools. These strategies combine a growing understanding of how best to effect educational improvement in schools and an awareness of arts experiences in childhood and youth education. Book Summary

Close Collaborations:
This report provides specific ways of approaching art within the framework of the national curriculum in the UK, which place the use of resources such as artists, exhibitions, galleries and museums as an integral component of any school art curriculum. Report Summary

Educating Through Art: The Steiner School Approach:
This book investigates why Waldorf Schools attach such importance to art in education and why Rudolf Steiner himself brought artistic training into all fields of further education. Book Summary

Including the Arts -the Route to Basic and Key Skills In Prisons:
By drawing on examples of arts in prisons, this book shows how participation in the arts can enhance achievement, instil a passion for learning and increase self-confidence. Book Summary

Learning: The Treasure Within:
This report deals with the fundamental role that education has to play in personal and social development. Report Summary

Participating In Music: Joining In:
This speech addresses the challenges around the concepts of participation and the community, and analyses the role, nature and uses of music in our society. Speech

Renaissance in the Classroom: Arts Integration and Meaningful Learning:
This is a practical guide to planning, implementing and assessing processes in arts integration, which draws on ideas and practices developed by CAPE (Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education). Book Summary


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Training and Structures

A Resource for Theatre and Participatory Development (ARTPAD):
A venture of the Centre for Applied Theatre Research (CATR) at the Department of Drama, University of Manchester, UK, this Theatre and Development project based in Brazil was established to promote research, teaching, practice and publications in the field of Applied Theatre. Case Study - UK

Artists in Education: Intercultural research report:
This report was commissioned by Arts Education Service, England, to inform the development of a new intercultural training project for artists and teachers working in Essex. Report Summary

Bigger Pictures, Broader Horizons:
This report from the UK presents the findings of a qualitative study aimed at finding out adults’ perceptions of informal learning and exploring the potential role of non-traditional providers and venues in offering learning opportunities in the arts and cultural sectors. Report Summary

Branching Out:
This report outlines Branching Out, a project of England's Royal National Theatre. This job-shadowing training and exchange scheme provided practical and relevant support for teachers, trainers, and artists developing work in Drama in Education in the UK and in Central and Eastern Europe. Report Summary

Building on Children’s Strengths: The Experience of Project Spectrum:
This curriculum resource was developed by researchers who contributed to Project Spectrum, a 10-year research project dedicated to developing an alternative approach to curriculum and assessment. Its aim is to enable teachers in the early primary years to apply multiple intelligences theory in their own classrooms. Book Summary

Changing Schools: Education in a knowledge society:
This report is the result of a workshop hosted by the Scottish Council Foundation in 2000, which brought participants from different sectors together to debate the state of the education system within and beyond Scotland. Report Summary

Citizenship and Initial Teacher Education: (PDF: 173 KB)This final report is drawn up to indicate the main issues facing institutions concerned with citizenship in Initial Teacher Education in the UK, and to offer advice to Teacher Education institutions on the approaches to citizenship in Initial Teacher Education. Article

Close Collaborations:
This report provides specific ways of approaching art within the framework of the national curriculum in the UK, which place the use of resources such as artists, exhibitions, galleries and museums as an integral component of any school art curriculum. Report Summary

Connecting Conversations: The Changing Voice of the Artist: (PDF: 138 KB)This essay by Peter Renshaw argues that in a cultural world of growing diversity, the ability to reach out, to respect and accept different points of view is critical to any personal or institutional conversation. All staff, students and young people in education need to be valued and feel that their voices are heard within an ethos of shared responsibility and mutual interdependence. Article

Creating a Land with Music:
Funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and managed by Youth Music, this report considers the work, education and training of professional musicians in the 21st century. Report Summary

Learning Through Landscapes (LTL):
Believing that outdoor learning and play is vital to every child's development, this school grounds charity campaigns for better creative and educational outdoor opportunities for all children and young people in education and childcare. Case Study - UK

Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative:
In this book, Ken Robinson argues that in a world of pervasive economic and technological changes, people are increasingly required to be innovative, creative and flexible. Robinson explores the need for creative abilities, and analyses the conditions under which creativity can thrive or be stifled. Book Summary

Professional Values and Student Learning: (PDF: 121 KB)Here McGettrick argues that Initial Teacher Education is not an aspect of education which is independent of other aspects and dimensions of education. It exists to form teachers who are capable of teaching what the public has a right to expect of the profession, and who are able to offer a constructive critique of the education system of which they are part. Article

Rethinking Training:
The author discusses how building learning communities is a central goal of the 21st century, and argues that creativity and innovation should be regarded as primary tools in the effort to achieve this task. Article

Schools that Learn:
Schools that Learn, drawing on the philosophy of the learning organisation laid out in The Fifth Discipline, focuses specifically on schools and education, offering practical tools, anecdotes and advice that can help strengthen and rebuild school communities. Book Summary

The Courage to Teach: The Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life:
This exploration of teaching life takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with their vocation and their students by asking – how can the teacher’s selfhood become a legitimate topic in education and in our public dialogues for educational reform? Book Summary

The Dance of Change:
The Dance of Change suggests innovative ways by which companies and organisation can move beyond the first step of change to accelerate success and avoid the obstacles that stall momentum. Written for managers and executives at every level, the book reveals how business leaders can work together to anticipate challenges that profound change will ultimately force the organisation to face. Book Summary

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook:
Drawing on the philosophy of the Fifth Discipline, which introduced the theory of learning organisation to the practice of management, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook offers pragmatic notes, reflection and exercises that can be used effectively to create and sustain successful organisations. Book Summary

The STAR Project: (PDF: 84 KB)An overview of this project, supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, concerning arts provision in teacher training and professional development. Case Study - UK

To Open Minds:
In this unique attempt to address the dilemma in contemporary education, Gardner weaves the lessons garnered from three vantage points - his own traditional education as an American child, his years of research on creativity at Harvard, and his extensive visits to modern Chinese classroom - into a programme for creativity that draws on both the traditional and progressive modes. Book Summary

Training and Development in Arts and Education:
The author analyses the problem of the training and development of those working in the field of arts and education. Article

What Learning Needs: The Challenge for a Creative Nation:
Demos report which looks at practical ways to develop the creative potential of students, teachers and the whole education system. Book Summary


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Values and LifeWide Learning

All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education:
This influential report is a response to the 1997 Government White Paper Excellence in Schools, which recognizes the need to foster motivation and esteem in schools. Report

At the Intersection of the Arts, Education and Contemporary Society:
This paper traces some of the Centre for Creative Communities initiatives, and asks how we can best encourage people to acquire a hunger for, and have the opportunity for, learning throughout their lives. Article

Collect & Share:
The Collect & Share programme is a consortium of European museum, gallery, and adult learning networks, agencies and institutions, which have come together to promote good practice in learning and education for adults (age 16 or over) in or with museums and galleries. Case Study - EU

Communities: Changing through learning:
This report came out of a working group established by the Scottish Office to provide advice on a long-term vision of community education for the region. It considers a national strategy for community based adult education, youth work and educational support for community development. Report Summary

Educating for the Future:
This speech is concerned with the position of the arts in the school curriculum and the challenges of a new generation of learners. It addresses the question of where the arts are going in society today. Speech

Emotional Intelligence:
Emotional Intelligence argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow, and that our emotions play a much greater role in thought, decision making and individual success than is commonly acknowledged. Drawing on brain and behavioural research, the author reveals certain factors that add up to a different way of succeeding in life - termed as ‘emotional intelligence’. Book Summary

Finding the Common Threads:
(Part of the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum series Perspectives on Values in Education, 1997). This paper looks at the benefits of a creative education and discusses both the presence of the arts in schools as part of the content and structure of teaching, and the growing interest in education by artists and arts organisations. Article

Learning Beyond the Classroom; Education for a Changing World:
Tom Bentley argues that if education is to meet the emerging challenges of the twenty-first century, we must recognise that learning takes place far beyond the formal educational sector. Book Summary

Learning to Succeed, A Radical Look at Education Today and a Strategy for the Future:
Results of an independent inquiry into long-term development of education and training throughout the UK. Book Summary

Lifelong Learning for Active Citizenship:
Speech by Christos Doukas, Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Greece. Common Threads: An Agenda for Active Citizenship conference - Organised by CCC in February 2003. Speech

Project Zero:
Project Zero, a research group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, investigates the development of creative learning processes in children, adults, and organisations. Case Study – USA

Values and Educating the Whole Person:
This paper was the second in a series of occasional papers on values and education published by the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum. In it, Professor McGettrick argues for the place of teaching values as part of the education of the whole person. Article


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