Looking at the impact that arts education could have on the development of various skills sets was the original idea behind the OECD’s book Art for Art’s Sake? The book consists of a rigorous ‘meta-analysis’ or review of the existing research literature on arts education. Thousands of articles in scientific journals were categorized and analysed and a vast number of fascinating research results could be listed.
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Creativity and imagination
Creativity and imagination is related to resilience and well-being. Creativity can have a positive impact on both self-esteem and overall achievement.
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3 September, 2015
We know that access to the Arts Is important for Young People, but why?
In this next series of blogs we have asked individuals from a broad spectrum of organisations to discuss a piece of research or writing that they feel highlights the importance of Young People’s engagement with the Arts.
Our first contributor, Dirk Van Damme, from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) discusses their 2013 publication Art for Arts Sake?
A skills perspective on arts (education)
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25 August, 2015Following on from last week’s blog, this second reflection developed by youth workers and artists in Cork as part of the Creativity and Change programme is on the role of creativity in contributing to the competences, values, attitudes and characteristics we want to nurture in ourselves and others to grow as global citizens.
The reflections were not just theory. Thirty people immersed themselves in creativity, reflection and connection to each other. The following reflections emerge from this shared experience.
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30 July, 2015
In this blog, Jessica Carson shares some of the questions she uses to reflect on her work, what motivates and inspires her, and how to decide into which projects to invest her passion:
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In this blog, Conor Heffernan tells us about being inside the Sing and Shine Project (a health, wellbeing project developed by Aspiro which took place in Carlow).
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6 June, 2015In this blog, as the ‘Sing and Shine’ programme draws to a close, we talk to Mary Amond O’Brien about the positive impact that this project has had on the young people participating.
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8 May, 2015
Mary Amond O’Brien is a busy woman. In addition to her choir work as Artistic Director with Aspiro and Music Director with Cór na n’Óg, she is currently running the ‘Sing and Shine’ outreach project in Carlow.
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15 April, 2015Why do I work with children through the arts?
I work with children and young people through the arts for two reasons: first, it’s an area and methodology in which I’m deeply interested in and relatively skilled; second, many of the benefits that children experience from engaging in a creative process overlap with the outcomes we hope to generate through our direct work with them.
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23 March, 2015Why deliver Arts Programmes for young people? For this series of blogs, we decided to ask some experienced youth workers, who are at the coal face of youth work, to discuss both their rationale and motivation for trying to engage the young people in the Arts.
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30 March, 2015In this blog, Youth Worker Emma O’Brien, discusses her motivation for delivering arts programmes with young people, also explaining in the process, the importance of defining roles when engaging an artist to work with young people in a youth work context.