Teresa Torres de Eça: Artists in education – A landscape of connections and tensions
This reflection is about arts-based projects in or with communities, mapping a landscape throughout the questions of the Symposium. My notes about different models of programmes supporting artists in educational contexts are based on my observations in the World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE) and International Society for Art Education ( InSEA). For the first section about programmes, I will present examples selected by members of the World Alliance for Arts Education: Big hART in Australia, Creatives in Schools in New Zealand, Arte en primera infancia in the city of Bogotá ( IDARTES), Expresarte in Peru (Ministry of Education), KACES in Korea (Korea Arts & Culture Education Service) and the Artist-In-School Scheme of the National Arts Council of Singapore. For the second section about effects and impact of the programmes, I will try to systematise expectations, objectives and desirable results in light of the UNESCO global agenda for education. I will conclude with some suggestions for strategies and participatory methodologies of working in the context of arts-based programmes for or with educational communities.