Arts Teaching Could Become More Important than Maths
Andreas Schleicher is the researcher who leads the Programme for International Student Assessment at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost thinkers about the future of education around the world. The... Read More →
Culture and Connection: How young people shape their creative futures
Creative Scotland and Young Scot have published a new report, Culture and Connection, which examines how young people across Scotland can shape their creative futures. The report is based on findings from the National Youth Arts Advisory Group (NYAAG) which first met in June 2017, and... Read More →
Do you have students with musical dyslexia?
Many students struggle with reading—and of course, that’s true of some students in Sistema-inspired programs, too. Few teachers realize that seventy to eighty percent of students who struggle with reading do so because they are challenged by dyslexia. There is... Read More →
When Democracy is at Risk: Reflections upon the Role of Arts Institutions
Those who have engaged with NEOJIBA in Salvador, Brazil, over the years, will probably know Beth Ponte, who served as its Institutional Director during a period of rapid growth. Beth left the program to pursue an advanced degree in Europe... Read More →
A New Study Reports on Adolescent Health
A new study from The Lancet is the first in recent years to report on adolescent health looking broadly across 195 countries. It finds an increase in obesity and anemia since 1990, along with reductions in smoking. Find and read... Read More →
Check out these two new research studies!
ArtsEdSearch is the largest collection of arts education research in the United States, and probably in the world. It is organized to help you be particularly efficient at finding research that directly addresses your topics of focus. Two new studies have... Read More →
Exploring the Effects of Music on the Brain and Body
A new 12-minute film from Wired’s Tech Effects explores the effect of music on the brain and body. It has several particularly interesting features for Sistema-involved people, offering brain science insights into the differences between the experiences of playing music, improvising music,... Read More →
In-Depth Research Study of Portugal’s Orquestra Geração
Editor’s note: The Research Centre in Psychology of Music and Music Education (CIPEM) hosted an in-depth study of the Orquestra Geração program in Portugal, entitled Growing While Playing in Orquestra Geração: Contributions towards understanding the relationship between music and social... Read More →
Students and Trauma
Many young people experience trauma; it affects them even when they hide it and their teachers don’t know of it. This is especially likely for students who participate in Sistema programs, because so many of our students live in communities... Read More →
Strong Research Affirmation of Sistema Approaches in Scotland
The Glasgow Centre for Population Health has just published the most recent findings in their long-term independent evaluation of the impacts of Sistema Scotland and its Big Noise programs. The report, entitled People Change Lives: Consolidating five years of evaluation learning from Sistema Scotland’s... Read More →