Assessment undertaken in schools should be valuable and worthwhile for students. In recent years, the pressures placed upon schools to improve performance have ...
In the 60 years since CP Snow’s Rede Lecture of 1959, there has been a considerable narrowing in the cultural divide between science and the humanities, and onl...
On 26 May 2019, a range of news sources reported on a 'crisis in music education' (Alberge, 2019), telling of how A-level and GCSE music entries are falling sha...
The basis of teaching in a practical classroom, such as art and design or design technology, is the much repeated and reliable teacher-led demonstration. These ...
As the focus of Ofsted moves to a broad and balanced curriculum and ensuring that cultural capital is developed alongside knowledge, the inclusion of the perfor...
We know that participation in structured arts activities can improve learning, attainment, employability, health and social engagement (Cultural Learning Allian...
The aim of this project was to see how drama could be used to contextualise understanding across a range of subjects. Dorothy Heathcote MBE created ‘Mantle of t...
We began teaching our subjects to pass on our knowledge and passion, but with our busy daily working and personal lives we sometimes forget to ‘feed’ the very f...
Photographic education is in limbo, and the future of its impact is hanging in the balance without change (Rubinstein, 2009). The relatively new subject (in com...
We have recently seen the beginning of a decline in entry at GCSE and A-level for arts subjects (see Thinktank report: A Step Backward, 2019). It can be temptin...
Please note, the author of this article is Director of Engagement at Lyfta, the subscription-based resource for schools described in this case study.
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With increasing pressures to achieve academic success through rigorous examination processes, I will look at the balance that students can achieve through engag...
This research project was designed to understand the lived experience of nine general practitioners teaching art; three from primary schools in the UK and six f...
DIALLS (DIalogue and Argumentation for cultural Literacy Learning in Schools) is a three-year research project involving nine countries in and around Europe. In...
A picture not only paints a thousand words and tells a story but also crosses language and communication barriers. It encourages inference; it involves both art...
Rosenshine’s principles of instruction (2012) offer 10 research-based strategies with suggestions for classroom practice. Here, I discuss how principles one and...
The Plymouth Oracy Project was designed to develop theoretical and pedagogical understanding of dialogic talk for learning amongst school staff, with a particul...
‘Cultural literacy’ seems to be a ubiquitous and controversial term in education at the moment. In relation to our curriculum and its aims, the ‘cultural’ part ...
Schools are important in helping children to successfully engage with culture and cultural institutions, and the Henley Review of Cultural Education in English ...
The government’s Green Paper ‘Transforming children and young people’s mental health provisions’ (Department of Health and Department of Education, 2017) sets o...
