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  • Vienna working group

    Grassrouting the Roadmap This outline for the preparation of a research project proposal departs from the global perspective of the ‘UNESCO Roadmap for Arts Education’. The Roadmap aims to better the conditions of education worldwide through cultural education. In the Roadmap, the participation in cultural education is stipulated as an universal human right as well…

  • Toronto working group – Youth in Solidarity Across Boundaries

    Youth in Solidarity Across Boundaries is a participatory action research project with Indigenous youth and youth from specific minority/immigrant communities in Toronto, in collaboration with the Toronto District School Board. Following the model developed with Proyecto Latin@ , the proposed project will bring together youth from different communities to engage in both research as well…

  • Toronto working group Proyecto Latin@

    Toronto working group Proyecto Latin@

    Proyecto Latin@ is a joint venture between the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)/University of Toronto that attempts to understand and, in understanding, re-envision the educational experiences of Latina/o youth in Toronto’s public schools. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ In response to statistics indicating higher dropout rates among Latina/o populations within…

  • Puerto Rico working group

    Video presented at Toronto meeting by Mayra Rivera Rivera: “What happens when academic research exposes some of the researcher’s deep personal experiences of pain? Here is an account of two graduate students who decided to engage this intimate dimension as an essential part of their Masters research project in Cultural Agency and Administration – one…

  • Nyanza working group

    Artists Home, the project that Christian Nyampeta is currently developing in collaboration with philosophers working in Rwanda and further afield, will be a community house in Nyanza, Rwanda. It will be home to an artistic programme modelled on the “home”: a home for research, theory and practice engaged with the conceptualisation, theorisation and materialisation of…

  • Manila working group

    Another Roadmap’s Manila Research group proposal is a collaborative attempt to address transnational questions involving the implicit privileging of individuation in art practice and art education vis-à-vis the need to anchor art education in grassroots/locally nuanced communal learning contexts. In shifting from undertaking case studies of art education histories, Back to Square 1 is exploring…

  • London working group

    We are a group of educators, lecturers, and cultural workers based in London. The focus of the London group for 2013 includes: research into the exportation of creative industries education from the UK and hegemonic roots of colonial education educating ourselves about methodologies for researching art education (in particular Participatory Action Research) establishing a research…

  • Ljubljana working group

    The Ljubljana working group has been formed in October 2011 in order to join their experiences and professional knowledge to critically assess the influences of the ideology to the elementary school curriculum, especially regarding the arts education as well as to collect the case studies of emancipatory educational practices from the territory of ex-Yugoslavia. The…

  • Kampala Working Group

    Kampala Working Group

    Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa is the founder member of the Kampala Working Group. She studied Literature at Cambridge University and Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. She is currently Director of Research at the Nagenda International Academy of Art & Design (NIAAD) in Namulanda, Uganda and Research Fellow in Fine Art at…