Brian Caldwell, Tanya Vaughan

Transforming Education through the Arts (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This timely book takes up the challenge of maintaining programs in the arts in the face of unrelenting pressure from two directions; the increasing focus on literacy and numeracy in schools, teamed with the cut-backs in public funding that often affect the arts most severely. Drawing on the wealth of evidence already available on the impact of the

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136519406
• Artikelnr.: 38273901

Autorenporträt

Brian Caldwell is Managing Director and Principal Consultant at Educational Transformations, Australia, and Professorial Fellow and former Dean of Education at the University of Melbourne. Tanya Vaughan is a scientist and Senior Consulting Researcher at Educational Transformations, Australia, where she is Chief Investigator for the landmark Australian studies on student engagement in the arts.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Challenge of Transforming Schools 2. Pitfalls in Educational Reform
3. Arguments for Engagement in the Arts 4. Methodologies for Breakthrough
Studies 5. Impact on Student Achievement 6. Impact on Student Wellbeing 7.
Studies of Schools Where Arts Interventions have Succeeded 8. Turning
around Schools through Engagement in the Arts 9. A Policy Agenda