Eurydice study on arts education

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Eurydice study on arts education

• 1. What is it?
• 2. What are the members asked for?
• 3. What should we decide upon?

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1. What is it?

• a Proposal for a Research Project
• to be conducted by the Eurydice Network
• GOAL comparative analysis of the educational
  policies of the different European countries on
  arts education
• Principle agreement
• by Eurydice inclusion in the Eurydice Working
  Programme
• by members of the www.culture-school.net network,
  during the Paris meeting

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2. What are the member countries asked for?

• no budget
• but
• content
• (through national Eurydice Units policy and
  research)

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3. What should we decide upon?

• SCOPE
• B. GENERAL RESEARCH OUTLINE and principle
• concept and policy
• the curriculum
• research

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As a reminder .

• Eurydice sources are
• official administrative information
• (laws, decrets, reform texts, official
  programmes, etc.)
• harmonised data (Eurostat)

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Scope of the study

•  Arts education 
• in compulsory education (ISCED 1 2)

which  operational  definition? (see  The WOW
factor  A. Bamford, 2006)
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What to compare?

• Definition used in each country
• National policies (main orientations)
• National curriculum for pupils/students (aims,
  organisation, competencies, etc.)
• Teacher education
• Evaluation of pupils, teachers schools
• (in compulsory education)

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a research review

• What do we know from research ?
• a  mapping  of
• topics addressed by research
• and their results

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• Arts Education aims to pass on cultural heritage
  to young people to enable them to create their
  own artistic language and to contribute to their
  global development emotional and cognitive. Arts
  education therefor effects the child on both an
  academic and personal level
• A. Bamford