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Is there a place for arts workers in schools after the cut backs?
Sweeping changes in education and arts funding are having a big effect on freelance arts practitioners. I don’t want to get all negative, but having been to a few meetings recently, it seems the changes run deeper than I had imagined. People … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Creative Partnerships, Curriculum, Education, funding
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On being wrong
This is a wondeful TED talks video from Kathryn Schulz, author of “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error”. In it she talks about how hard we work to avoid being wrong and the problems this causes. I was going … Continue reading
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Tagged Creative thinking, Creators, Curriculum, Independent, Invention, learning, mistakes, TEDTalks
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Creators not consumers
“Creators not consumers” was the mantra when I first worked with Play.Train in the early 1990’s. What drove us was the wish to encourage young people to recognise and value their own abilities to create, make, do, sing, think and … Continue reading
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