Symposium creativity and innovation through education and culture

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Symposium creativity and innovation through
education and culture

• 2009
• In the context of the European year of creativity
  and innovation

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• Partners
• Goal
• Target group
• Content
• central question
• Possible focus
• Research basis
• Desired Result

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1. Partners

• Joint Dutch-Flemish initiative
• Call for collaboration/participation of all other
  network members
• Interest of the EU commission given the year 2009

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2. Goal

• international symposium (EU)
• in the context of the year 2009 on creativity and
  innovation through
• impact on politics and broader society
• the importance of arts and cultural education
• Recommendations

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3. Target Group

• Small group (150?) of invited
• decision makers
• political level (ministers, commissioners)
• policy makers
• important researchers
• valuable partners from the educational and
  cultural field (e.g. good practices)
• network members

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4. Content

• Central question what is the role of cultural
  education in the 21st century
• In the context of developments in society in the
  field of
• education
• (new) media
• social cohesion
• arts

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Possible further focus

• On the role, dimension and quality of
• the teacher and teacher training
• the curriculum
• artists and cultural organisations
• the pupil (taking in account the changing context
  in (the development and education) of children)
• quality implies evaluation of education and
  policy

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Research as a basis

• Eurydice-results
• glossary-findings
• results of policy assessment (Bamford)
• specific preparatory research (e.g. case-studies
  by a team of experts in several countries)

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• 5. Desired Result
• R E C O M M E N D A T I O N S
• Limited amount
• Focused
• Concrete
• Accepted / embedded