The session will centre on a fundamental area CAN has been keenly on focused in the past year: arts education in public school systems. There is evidence of a decline in arts education in public school curricula across the globe. The increasing exclusion and marginalisation of the arts in public school classrooms has far-reaching impacts on whole child development and on communities. It’s an issue that requires attention and action – and the motivation for our event.
This session will explore the root causes and contributing challenges to developing arts education in public education, as well as potential solutions. We will also shine a spotlight on examples of school systems that are successfully entrenching arts education in public education in Jordan and in the Netherlands.
Dr. Heddy Lahmann will present the results of a desk review conducted end of last year , that marks the early steps in our journey around this topic.
