Posts Tagged ‘creative education’
A2:Connect & Plwg – copywriting, enewsletter and social media
Writing Services was commissioned as the Digital Content Producer for A2:Connect, editing and posting content for the website and the monthly enewsletter.
Read MoreWhy stories will help your small charity, music or arts organisation (and a bit of science)
I was inspired to write this blog post by a great article from Michelle Wright of Cause4 and Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy, about how we should do more advocating through stories. We see a lot of ‘Save our music service’, ‘Save our theatre etc’ stories of risk/deficit in the arts and charities. That’s understandable, and…
Read MoreHow to get more traffic to your website and improve your Google ranking
If you’re a music organisation, arts organisation or small charity, you may be communicating well with specific audiences. But how do you grow your audience and get greater engagement and sales, participation and support on a small budget? One important and often overlooked tactic is to make sure every page on your site is ‘optimised’…
Read MoreWhat can music & creative education advocates learn from sports about behaviour change?
This week, I was at a meeting about the strategy for young people’s health and wellbeing in Gloucestershire*. A presentation from Active Gloucestershire really started me thinking. What could we in the cultural and creative learning sector – and particularly music – learn from sports charities about behaviour change? The presentation was about Gloucestershire’s pilot…
Read MoreKen Robinson’s latest TED talk
In his latest TED talk, the creativity and education expert Sir Ken Robinson once again argues that human beings are diverse, curious, and creative – and our education systems should reflect that, not work against it. He refers to the US’s ‘No Child Left Behind’ policy but as you’ll see, could just as well be…
Read MoreBenefits of arts education – evidence from the U.S
If you’re needing to make the case for music or the arts in your school or organisation,Reinvesting in Arts Education – winning America’s future through creative schools, has proven useful recently for a few colleagues, so I thought I’d summarise some of the key findings here. It’s worth a fuller read, particularly the sections on…
Read MoreLearning revolutionaries – Learning Without Frontiers
I went to a conference put on by these people about a year ago and it both encapsulated all I believe about learning, and challenged my assumptions about how I think about learning. It was completely inspiring and fried my brain. I wish I’d blogged about it at the time but they’ve just released a…
Read MoreCreative practitioners and communities: raising standards in Wales
What do the words ‘community artist’, ‘artist working in the community’ or ‘artist working in a participatory setting’ mean to you? It’s easier to focus on what they have in common: using their skills/artform to help other people to get actively in involved in the arts. But beyond that, there’s a myriad of different ways…
Read MoreHow to find out what young people really want from music education
With the national music education plan out hopefully early next week, local authority music services and others hoping to become part of the new music education ‘hubs’ will have to find ways to demonstrate what young people in their area want and need. It’s a tricky one, particularly for music services who have been used…
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YOUNG PEOPLE AND MUSIC EDUCATION Music Education in Wales – a warning for England? (Music Education UK, June 2011) A land with less music? (Sounding Board, May 2011) – the music education review in Wales Musical Futures (Sounding Board) – the government’s Wider Opportunities scheme Making the connections(Sounding Board) – Youth workers, community musicians and…
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