We consider the basic human want for meaning and self expression is finest satisfied by the examine and observe of the humanities. With former Harvard Educational Evaluation board member Laura Edwards he co-edited a particular HER arts-education situation, Increasing Our Imaginative and prescient for the Arts in Training (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Education Publishing Group, 2013), that featured work by AIE grads Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández, Ed.M.’02; Marit Dewhurst, Ed.M.’03; Lauren M. Jobson-Ahmed, Nicholas Monzi, and Sara Straubel, all Ed.M.’13; AIE college director Steve Seidel; and AIE program administrator Scott Ruescher.
By addressing the four priority areas highlighted in this agenda, the Partnership will probably be shifting towards the objective that, by the yr 2020, every young particular person in America, at every grade level, can have equitable entry to high quality arts learning opportunities, both during the college day and out-of-college time.
Within the AIE Program, you will join a diverse cohort of visible artists, musicians, museum educators, nonprofit arts advocates, actors, academics, and writers who consider that the arts not only have intrinsic societal worth, but also multiple roles in youth schooling and wholesome improvement.
It’s an important conversation to have in our complex society, and one which most likely wouldn’t have occurred with out a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant that made the screening —as well as different arts-training initiatives the Pageant does with Columbia’s Ragtag Cinema and local public faculties — potential.
Partnering with Vans Customized Culture, People for the Arts has designed the Arts Schooling Navigator, a sequence of e-books overlaying quite a lot of matters with the aim of serving to educators, students, and advocates alike navigate the complicated field of arts training.