Finding Joy and Connection through Music
Engagement, a key component in successful learning, can be elusive in distance-learning contexts. This recent article, part of an EdSurge research series, cites several studies in offering methods designed to increase or maintain the three primary components of engagement—behavioral, cognitive,... Read More →
IFACCA: Supporting Culture in the Digital Age
The International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) has released its Public Report “Supporting Culture in the Digital Age”—the product of research undertaken from October 2019 to March 2020. Though the report does not include recent developments in... Read More →
How Can Educators Tap into Research to Increase Engagement during Remote Learning?
Engagement, a key component in successful learning, can be elusive in distance-learning contexts. This recent article, part of an EdSurge research series, cites several studies in offering methods designed to increase or maintain the three primary components of engagement—behavioral, cognitive,... Read More →
Sound Therapy
You have seen the many eager offers of free concerts, free masterclasses, free ways to enjoy music in this disrupted time. During periods of stress, this makes more sense than you may realize—a new study from the British Academy of... Read More →
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 →