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The latest ten articles from our journals on this subject.

Culturally responsive pedagogies in the visual and performing arts: Exemplars, missed opportunities and challenges

Rawiri Hindle, Catherine Savage, Luanna H. Meyer, Christine E. Sleeter, Anne Hynds and Wally Penetito

Curriculum Matters 7: 2011

In New Zealand the majority of students attend schools that reflect the dominant mainstream context, yet these schools include indigenous Māori and learners from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. By building on contemporary cultural knowledge and students’ own experiences, the arts have the potential to enhance educational outcomes for a diverse student population. This research examines the effects of an intensive programme of teacher professional development in culturally responsive pedagogies on classroom activities and learning experiences in the arts.

Primary visual art teaching: Supporting teacher confidence

Ian Bowell

set 2010: no. 2

Some teachers lack confidence in teaching art. With teacher advisory service support for visual art teaching reduced this year, schools need to find new ways to help teachers gain confidence. This article explores the benefits of a collaborative inquiry approach within schools.

Visual arts education in New Zealand: Curriculum, promise and challenge

David Bell

Curriculum Matters 6 : 2010

Visual arts education has long enjoyed a place in the New Zealand curriculum. Institutional endorsement of the value of visual arts learning for all children has maintained its status as a core subject in schools, a secondary schools examination subject and as specialist courses in colleges of education and schools of arts. The visual arts retain their presence today, and few question their centrality to a healthy curriculum.

Re-Placing the Arts in Education

Wendy Geoghegan

set 1995: no. 1

Arts education is more than entertainment or an after-school pursuit. Lessons to be learnt from a "dramatic" learning experience, based on role play and research into native American tribes.

Books and CDs about Arts

Enhancing Learning in the Arts: A Professional Development Resource

$64.40

What is happening in arts teaching and learning in our classrooms? Recent NEMP reports tell us that Year 4 students are not performing well but that there is an increase in scores at Year 8.

This new professional development resource builds on research into teacher practice in Years 0–6 classrooms in New Zealand primary schools. It offers new insights into teaching the arts, challenging teachers to confirm, interrogate, and disrupt established rituals of practice.

Date published: 2 June 2008