International SIMM-posium on Researching the Social Impact of Music-Making
The 5th annual SIMM-posium, scheduled for December 18–19, 2020 in Brussels, will bring together researchers and practitioners involved in critical research on the social impacts of music-making (SIMM). This annual international meeting builds a professional network of researchers who work to... Read More →
Online Courses from Major Arts-Learning Institution
Harvard’s Project Zero is one of the most pioneering organizations in arts learning research in the world. They have developed major contributions to the field that are now widely embraced as best practices. Some of these key bodies of work... Read More →
Scholarly study of Sistema-inspired programs in Portugal, Brazil, and Mozambique
A new scholarly paper by Luiz Botelho-Gomes, for his graduate degree program at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., focuses on El Sistema youth orchestras as vehicles for positive social change, and includes case studies of Sistema programs in... Read More →
Two new studies on children and young people’s leisure cultures and lives in Nordic countries and England
In Nordic Countries How are cultural lives of children and young people in the Nordic countries impacted when youngsters are able to make decisions for themselves? What are the driving forces of children and young people in creation processes, and... Read More →
Arts Learning Promotes Socio-emotional Competencies
In the United States, the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, in partnership with the Chicago Public Schools Advocacy group Ingenuity, has gathered a distinguished panel of researchers to address these two questions: 1. What kind of theory of action describes the... Read More →
Expanding the Ways We Evaluate Excellence
For twenty years, the initiative Animating Democracy, from Americans for the Arts, has been the most prominent national organization supporting arts for social and civic change in the United States. A few years ago they produced a significant report called Aesthetic... Read More →
EDITORIAL: “But Does It Work?”: What Studies Show About the Effectiveness of El Sistema Programs
Did you know that in Glasgow, Scotland, an independent research initiative found that students in Glasgow’s “Big Noise” program attend school more often than their peers who are not in the program? Or that in Colombia, according to federal officials,... Read More →
Mindsets Matter the Most
A new international research study from McKinsey & Company entitled How to Improve Student Educational Outcomes: New insights from data Analytics brings two key findings: • Student mindsets, such as motivation and self-belief, have greater impact on student performance... Read More →
A Tool for Stressed-Out Adolescents
Sistema teachers deal with adolescents who experience stress. Here is a finding from psychologists that give us a clue for how to help them more. It’s called Negative Emotional Differentiation (NED)—which sounds like a bad thing for adolescents to have,... Read More →
Call for Papers on Collective Artistic Practice
The journal Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia announces a call for papers for a special thematic issue focusing on “Collective artistic practices and their socio-political potentials.” The editors are looking for accounts of artistic practices with a participatory dimension, in which... Read More →