CULTURE
Arts in Education
Within the framework of "Education For All" and "Quality Education" goals, as well as in support of strategies to safeguard cultural diversity, UNESCO is endeavouring to mainstream the arts, creativity and culture in educational systems throughout the world.
With this aim in mind, the Office of the UNESCO Regional Adviser for Culture in Asia and the Pacific is promoting research in the field of Arts Education and exchange of information and case studies among teachers, artists, experts and other practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region. This office has convened a series of regional meetings on Arts Education, culminating in the World Conference on Arts Education, held in 2006. In addition, this office is encouraging interested academic institutions to establish Asia-Pacific Arts Education Observatories, to systematically compile and disseminate information on Arts Education in the region.
This website provides detailed information about our Arts Education activities and outcomes, as well as links to Arts Education organizations and a variety of useful publications and resources.
News
UNESCO-NIE Care Launch
The launch of the UNESCO-NIE Centre for Arts Research in Education (CARE), held on 9 March 2010, saw a gathering of 120 teachers, researchers and arts practitioners at the Nanyang Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore. Doing away with the traditional ribbon-cutting exercise, Professor Lee Sing Kong, Director of NIE, announced the official launch of the centre and expressed his support for the arts research in education initiative that CARE spearheads. Assistant Professor Lum Chee Hoo, CARE Coordinator, presented the work that CARE does. Ms Joy Millan, CARE researcher, introduced the CARE website, which seeks to be a premiere arts education resource site.
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The 2nd World Conference on Arts Education, 25-28 May 2010, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Following the ongoing preparation through numerous initiatives across the world, this conference in Seoul aims to promote and to reinforce the value of quality arts education for all, in developing a capacity for creativity in the 21st century for youth and all generation.
The significance and value of arts education has already been underlined and expressed in the "Road Map for Arts Education", resulting from the First World Conference on Arts Education held in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2006. It is now the time to focus on encouraging the implementation of the "Road Map". Furthermore, this new global encounter in Seoul of art education actors will target to highlight the socio-cultural dimensions of arts education and reinforce research and knowledge of practices, ensuing from new conceptual and methodological tools.
The aim is that the Conference results in raising further awareness of the role, which arts education can play in all countries, in favour of communities and people of all conditions, in the spirit of peace and in respect of cultural diversity. In consequence, we expect to strengthen the will to make arts education even more creative and effective in the world of today and tomorrow.
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UNESCO Network of Arts Education Observatories – Regional Preparatory Meeting to the Second World Conference on Arts Education, 18-19 January 2010
In preparation to the Second World Conference on Arts Education which will be jointly organized in Seoul by the Republic of Korea and UNESCO in May 2010, and as part of a global consultation on Arts Education leading up to this event, the UNESCO Bangkok Culture Unit convenes a two-day consultation gathering UNESCO Arts Education Observatories representatives, regional experts and members of the World Conference organizing committee to reflect on the contribution of the Asia Pacific region to the Seoul Conference .
