Art 25500 Identity and Culture in Art Education

In cooperation with the World Alliance for Arts Didactics (WAAE)

Peter Atsu Adaletey is an art educator in Ghana. The promotion of the arts in instruction has always been his priority and, from a health standpoint, an emergency response. His longstanding devotion to this mission since 1998 nonetheless came to a halt during the COVID-19 pandemic, as his activities and initiatives depended solely on people's in-person participation. Despite this challenge, he has rapidly moved into online tools and continued educational activities in diverse means of approaching creativity. He says that working in times of the pandemic has opened his perspectives to new possibilities.

https://atsuadaletey.medium.com/

Bahia Shehab is a professor of pattern in Egypt. Despite the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, she quickly shifted her grade to an online form and continued working with her students. 1 central insight she had while instruction online is that educators now need to accept more empathy and exist more accommodating and kinder in the classroom. Some other is that students are learning faster from each other online, since everybody is now looking at a shared screen of each other's sketches. There is, however, the challenge that not every educatee tin appoint in the online grade at the same level. She thinks the role of educator is to suit and customize educational modules to each educatee and to make learning experiences as accessible equally possible to different types of students and learners.

https://world wide web.bahiashehab.com/teaching1

Jane Nicholas is a music teacher in a primary school in the city of Perth, Australia. Whilst music educational activity was strongly impacted by the absence of presential teaching, the community restrictions brought by the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the need for music pedagogy to human action every bit social and cultural glue, to shine personal and community distress, thereby providing hope and management for a amend day. Her virtual classroom platform helped to connect with her students as well as family and friends locally, nationally and internationally. Having participated in a virtual event for early childhood educators, she was notably able to exchange with other educators on how to empower children through immersive Australian ancient perspectives in music pedagogy. The circumstances of the pandemic have reinforced her need to exist creative, flexible, and proactive about life away from work and shared with others.

http://www.willandraps.wa.edu.au/music.html

Sandra Maksimovic is a drama instructor in Serbia. She has witnessed how the pandemic crisis has emphasized the importance of art education to nurture empathy through engagement with and participation in artistic activities. The pandemic has as well been an opportunity to research the issue of mental and emotional health and the rights of learners, as well equally explore new forms of communication and educational activity. Over the past twelvemonth, the group CureForCulture (KULTUROCIKLIN in Serbian), created in 2017, put on a play "CureForCulture 2m" with her present and past students, which is almost how children accept been coping with the COVID-xix pandemic on the ground of their personal experiences, video materials and research about new ways of working. Another of her projects has been to invite audiences to directly participate in searching for new spaces of dialogue in diverse formats.

https://kulturociklin.com/

Inés Sanguinetti is the co-founder and president of Crear Vale la Pena, a non-governmental organization based in Argentina that develops a social integration programme for young people combining educational activity with the arts. Developed to exist carried out in a shared space, their educational and creative activities were heavily influenced past the pandemic. The organization, withal, rose to the challenge and succeeded in bringing their live activities into the virtual space, by adapting the working methods. Throughout the twelvemonth, she and her squad were pleasantly surprised to discover that working virtually did not restrict but instead broadened their work, action and exchanges. Driven by their conviction in social transformation through arts, she and her squad prioritized the introduction of emotion in the online workshops just like in the classroom, in the community and in the therapeutic field.

https://www.crearvalelapena.org.ar/

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Source: https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/artseducationweek

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