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What Place for Arts in Education?

Franz-Josef Stummann | 16.09.2004 09:07 | Culture | Education | World

3rd Conference of European Regional Ministers of EducatioDun Laoghaire(Ireland)-23-24 September 2004 European regional ministers are concerned about the one-sided oreintation of education on economic performance and commercial goals

Press announcement
16 September 2004

AER's Third Conference of European Regional Ministers of Education and Culture
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown / Ireland

“WHAT PLACE FOR ARTS IN EDUCATION?”
Towards a new pedagogical pattern based on creativity & participation

European Regional Ministers of Education and Culture
are concerned about the increasing economic use of education.



The Assembly of European Regions (AER), the representative organisation of the European Regions, is organising its third Conference of Ministers for Education and Culture in Dún Loaghaire-Rathdown / Ireland on 23 and 24 September.

The Conference will stress the importance of all art forms in our educational process, and make concrete proposals on how to achieve a new balance between economic considerations and human fulfilment. Discussions at the Conference will address the following issues: the aspects of creativity in teaching, the opening of schools to the community, the promotion of intercultural and intergenerational exchanges, the role of regional cultural institutions. The Conference is conceived as an "Open house" where acknowledged experts and practitioners who, on a daily basis, make the arts accessible for all the different groups in society discuss with regional Ministers.

Building on the AER Budapest Declaration (2003), the Conference will focus on a new educational paradigm that re-affirms the role of arts in education beyond pure utilitarian considerations. Regions are very much concerned that present educational concepts and mainstream political thinking seem to predominantly follow a very functional approach to arts education, highlighting criteria such as economic utilisation, professional qualifications and employability.

The third Conference of European regional Ministers is also part of the AER’s general initiative to establish an "International Legal Instrument for the Protection of Cultural Diversity", now actively pursued in the UNESCO. It also embodies our firm opposition to further liberalization of educational and cultural services under the General Agreement of Trade and Services (GATS) and the promotion of liberalisation through a primarily market-orientated Constitutional Treaty. The Conference in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown has the ambition of being able to turn the tide in favour of a re-appraisal of arts and culture in educational policies.


AER Contacts

Should you wish to participate in the Conference, please contact Francine Huhardeaux, Press and Communication Assistant, Tel: +33 (0)3 88 22 74 49 - @: f.huhardeaux.fr

Dr. Franz Josef Stummann, Deputy Secretary General and Executive Secretary of Committee 'Culture, Education and Training, Youth' or Doris Materne, Assistant
Tel: +33 (0)3 88 22 74 47/43 - Fax: +33 (0)3 88 75 67 19 - @:  f.stummann@a-e-r.org or @:  d.materne@a-e-r.org

Web: www.a-e-r.org

Franz-Josef Stummann
- e-mail: f.stummann@a-e-r.org
- Homepage: http://www.a-e-r.org

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What place for education in 'education'

16.09.2004 14:04

Hoops to jump through.
Exam books market blooms.
League tables. More sick competiton to fuck the kids over.
Citizenship classes (n.b unlike Ireland, In UK we aren't citizens?) from the aporties ofd arms trade, police states, and war. What a sick joke,.
history classes from the colonialists.
Discipline and punsih the kids.
Push them into capitalist business class.
No hope fopr genuine arts. The arts / galleries sector with its long standing ties to the media,advertising/marketing, sectors is sewn up/bent, anyway.
many schools have long been run by politicians with an agenda to build up their power base.
fascist school coppers and 'councillors'.....
recaliam learning.
reclaim imagination.
we don't want your middle class hypocritical values.
learnign should be fun - not indoctrination nor punishment.

reclaim the schools


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