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The Increasing Importance of Creativity as Work Skill
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2016-06-01T11:20:11.000Z
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<p>In a 2016 report The Future of Jobs: Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the core skills needed for work in 2020, as identified by professionals from leading global companies, were presented and compared to those identified five years ago. Creativity has moved from number 10 (as predicted for 2015) to the third most important skill to have, following complex problem solving and critical thinking. ‘Creativity’ was in the context of this research…</p>
<p>In a 2016 report The Future of Jobs: Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the core skills needed for work in 2020, as identified by professionals from leading global companies, were presented and compared to those identified five years ago. Creativity has moved from number 10 (as predicted for 2015) to the third most important skill to have, following complex problem solving and critical thinking. ‘Creativity’ was in the context of this research defined as ‘the ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem’ (World Economic Forum, 2016, p. 52).</p>
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<p>Top 5 skills needed for work in 2020:</p>
<p>Complex problem solving</p>
<p>Critical thinking</p>
<p>Creativity</p>
<p>People management</p>
<p>Coordinating with others</p>
<p>(Gray, 2016)</p>
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<p>How can we make sure that children and young people get a chance to develop these vital skills in education settings?</p>
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<p>References</p>
<p>Gray, A. (19 January 2016). The 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-10-skills-you-need-to-thrive-in-the-fourth-industrial-revolution">https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-10-skills-you-need-to-thrive-in-the-fourth-industrial-revolution</a></p>
<p>World Economic Forum. (January 2016). The Future of Jobs: Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Retrieved from <a href="http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs.pdf" target="_blank">http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs.pdf</a></p>
International Arts Education Week 23–29 May 2016
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2016-03-30T14:41:03.000Z
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<p>Did you know that the fourth week of May, which this year is 23–29 May 2016, is the International Arts Education Week as designated by UNESCO?</p>
<p>More information also on the previous years can be found on <a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/creativity/arts-education" target="_blank">UNESCO's Arts Education page</a>, the dedicated page of the <a href="http://waae.edcp.educ.ubc.ca/?page_id=350" target="_blank">World Alliance for Arts Education</a> or the Virtual Gallery…</p>
<p>Did you know that the fourth week of May, which this year is 23–29 May 2016, is the International Arts Education Week as designated by UNESCO?</p>
<p>More information also on the previous years can be found on <a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/creativity/arts-education" target="_blank">UNESCO's Arts Education page</a>, the dedicated page of the <a href="http://waae.edcp.educ.ubc.ca/?page_id=350" target="_blank">World Alliance for Arts Education</a> or the Virtual Gallery of its member <a href="https://educationthroughart.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/international-week-of-arts-education-2015/" target="_blank">International Society fro Education through Art (InSEA)</a>.</p>
<p>For 2016 call for art works for a virtual exhibition accompanying the event, organised by InSEA and the International Art Education Association (InAEA), follow <a href="http://www.inaea.org/post/2016/01/13/Call-for-artworks-Celebrating-the-2016-UNESCO-International-Arts-Education-Week.aspx" target="_blank">this link</a>.</p>
International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) Regional Conference Vienna 2016
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2016-03-30T13:51:56.000Z
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<p><strong>The InSEA Regional Conference Vienna 2016</strong></p>
<p><br></br><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dates:</span> 22–24 September 2016</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Venue:</span> the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Theme:</span> Art and Design Education in Times of Change ("Against the background of current societal challenges the conference is looking for answers in the…</p>
<p><strong>The InSEA Regional Conference Vienna 2016</strong></p>
<p><br/><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dates:</span> 22–24 September 2016</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Venue:</span> the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Theme:</span> Art and Design Education in Times of Change ("Against the background of current societal challenges the conference is looking for answers in the interaction of media, arts and education.")</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Organisers:</span> D'Art – Austrian Center for Didactics of Art, Textile & Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna in cooperation with University of Art and Design Linz</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Programme</span> includes:</p>
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<li>Keynote speakers</li>
<li>Lectures and workshop sessions</li>
<li>Reception at the Angewandte Innovation Lab </li>
<li>Conference dinner/party</li>
<li>Museum excursions</li>
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<p>(detailed programme to be confirmed in June 2016)</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Call for proposals:</span></p>
<p>Workshops or lectures on the following research streams:</p>
<ol>
<li>Early childhood education</li>
<li>Primary school education</li>
<li>Secondary school education</li>
<li>Adult education, lifelong learning</li>
<li>Museum education</li>
<li>Leisure education</li>
<li>Arts-based research</li>
<li>Community arts practice</li>
<li>Open</li>
</ol>
<p>(deadline for abstract submission: 23 May 2016)</p>
<p>More info on the call for proposals in the <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/forum/topics/call-for-workshop-lecture-proposals-art-and-design-education" target="_self">related post on ICEnet</a>.</p>
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<p>Source and more info on the <a href="http://www.didactic-art.org/index.php?id=insea" target="_blank">main organiser's dedicated page</a>.</p>
Publication: Cool: Applied Visual Arts in the North
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2015-09-30T13:58:26.000Z
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<p>Insights into applied visual arts in community-based and socially engaged art, including in education.</p>
<p>Publication of the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Lapland, Finland. Edited by Timo Jokela, Glen Coutts, Maria Huhmarniemi & Elina Härkönen.</p>
<p>The publication is available <a href="http://lauda.ulapland.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/62112/COOL_Applied%20Visual%20Arts%20in%20the%20North_verkkoon.pdf?sequence=4" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Publisher's…</p>
<p>Insights into applied visual arts in community-based and socially engaged art, including in education.</p>
<p>Publication of the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Lapland, Finland. Edited by Timo Jokela, Glen Coutts, Maria Huhmarniemi & Elina Härkönen.</p>
<p>The publication is available <a href="http://lauda.ulapland.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/62112/COOL_Applied%20Visual%20Arts%20in%20the%20North_verkkoon.pdf?sequence=4" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Publisher's summary:</p>
<blockquote><p>This book presents a series of essays and reports on the topic of Applied Visual Arts. Broadly<br/> speaking, this territory of contemporary arts focuses on community-based and socially<br/> engaged art. Authors include academics, artists, curators and postgraduate students who<br/> share a commitment to advancing the cause of context sensitive art, research and education.<br/> The anthology will be of interest to a wide audience including, for example, artists,<br/> social scientists, community activists and educators. Organised in five sections (see below)<br/> the book offers readers a wide range of perspectives into Applied Visual Arts, cool indeed.</p>
<p>SECTIONS<br/> Contexts<br/> Tradition To Contemporary<br/> Applied Visual Arts In Public Places<br/> Community Engagement<br/> Applied Visual Arts In Education (Jokela et al. (Eds.), 2013, p. 174)</p>
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ICEnet Newsflash July/August 2015
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2015-07-30T12:23:25.000Z
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<p>Hello all ICEnet Members!</p>
<p>Summer is here, but even more importantly, we have great news and we want to share them with you. After two years of hard work, a group of partner organisations within ICEnet finished their work on a project Training Requirements and Key Skills for Artists and creative practitioners to work in participatory settings (TRaKSforA). We are therefore very proud to present its main outcome…</p>
<p><b>Self-Assessment Competency Framework for…</b></p>
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<p>Hello all ICEnet Members!</p>
<p>Summer is here, but even more importantly, we have great news and we want to share them with you. After two years of hard work, a group of partner organisations within ICEnet finished their work on a project Training Requirements and Key Skills for Artists and creative practitioners to work in participatory settings (TRaKSforA). We are therefore very proud to present its main outcome…</p>
<p><b>Self-Assessment Competency Framework for Creative Practitioners who work in educational settings to develop the creativity of children (SACF)</b></p>
<p>Whether you are an experienced creative practitioners or an artist thinking of starting working in this way, or even their collaborator or training provider, we hope that this document will become a great resource for you. The document is designed as an interactive pdf which can be used either in electronic or in printed form, and next to the chance to look at a set of desirable competencies and related behaviours and assess these, you will also find advice and practical tips for developing each of the behaviours. Sounds intriguing? Check it out <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/page/traksfora-leonardo">here</a>, use it, talk about it and share it! The page also includes background information on the project and the partnership.</p>
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<p>The framework is complemented by another outcome of the project:</p>
<p><b>Case studies exploring the competencies of artists and creative practitioners who work in participatory settings to develop the creativity of children and young people</b></p>
<p>This is a collection of individual case studies illustrating the competencies identified and highlighting them in practice across Europe. You can view and download it on <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/page/traksfora-leonardo">the same page</a>.</p>
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<p>We know how hard it is to keep track of what is happening on all the different platforms and websites. If you are saying to yourself “I wish I could see all the updates easily on Facebook” – well, you are lucky! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/ICEnet/133263170204321">ICEnet is on Facebook</a> too. ‘Like’ the page to keep track of new content on the platform, and you are more than welcome to share your own projects and links too.</p>
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<p align="center"><span>Source: facebook.com</span></p>
<p><b>Is there something you would like to share with others?</b></p>
<p>Would you like to share your or your organisation’s recent work that could inspire others – be it text, image, audio or video? Do you know about an interesting event or opportunity? Have you found useful online resources? Have you recently been thinking about a problem that other creative practitioners and professionals could help you with? The platform is all yours.</p>
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<p>Best Wishes</p>
<p><b><i>Your ICEnet Team</i></b></p>
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<p><i>You can ask questions and share your feedback or suggestions with us on <a href="mailto:ICEnet@cceengland.org">ICEnet@cceengland.org</a>.</i></p>
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Roundtables Utrecht and TRaKSforA Partnership Meeting Amsterdam
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2015-07-21T17:22:12.000Z
Radka Jágriková
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<p>The final meeting of partners and practitioners involved in the project <span>project “Training Requirements and Key Skills for Artists and other creative practitioners to work in participatory settings“ (<a href="http://icenet.ning.com/page/traksfora-leonardo" target="_self">TRaKSforA</a>) took place in the Netherlands on 3–5 June 2015.</span></p>
<p><span>First in the series of official activities and events was a roundtable event organised by HKU University of the Arts Utrecht in…</span></p>
<p>The final meeting of partners and practitioners involved in the project <span>project “Training Requirements and Key Skills for Artists and other creative practitioners to work in participatory settings“ (<a href="http://icenet.ning.com/page/traksfora-leonardo" target="_self">TRaKSforA</a>) took place in the Netherlands on 3–5 June 2015.</span></p>
<p><span>First in the series of official activities and events was a roundtable event organised by HKU University of the Arts Utrecht in collaboration with Utrecht Creative Capacity Development Path and partners in TRaKSforA/ICEnet on Wednesday 3 June. Six research tables focused on distinctive issues related to creative education and creative partnerships, with one table looking specifically at the latest draft of the Self-Assessment Competency Framework for Creative Practitioners that partner organisations in TRaKSforA had been working on. The discussions brought a lot of interesting insights and contributed to the final framework, which can be downloaded from <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/page/traksfora-leonardo" target="_self">here</a>. </span></p>
<p>A photo-report and more information (in Dutch only) can be found on the <a href="http://www.hku.nl/OnderzoekEnKennis/Onderzoeksnieuws/Nieuwsbericht/TerugblikOnderzoekstafelsCreatiefVermogen.htm" target="_blank">HKU website</a>.</p>
<p>Other activities of the participants from 9 European countries included a conference, a series of participatory workshops, partnership meetings, informal discussions and a practice visit to the Hermitage Amsterdam museum. A selection of photos from the museum activities can be seen below.</p>
<p><img width="500" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002455948?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="500"/></p>
<p><img width="500" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002456210?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="500" class="align-right"/></p>
<p><img width="500" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002456287?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="500"/></p>
<p>Photo: Jan Staes, City of Antwerp</p>
Workshop on Creative Practitioners' Participatory Practice – Casgliad 2015 Wales Conference
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2015-07-20T12:46:41.000Z
Radka Jágriková
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<p>On 11 April 2015, <strong>Di Fisher-Naylor</strong>, Director of Programme Development at <strong>Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE)</strong>, led a workshop at <strong>Casgliad 2015</strong>, the first <strong>Youth Arts Network Cymru Conference</strong> held in Aberystwyth, Wales. After an introduction into the work, international programmes and values of CCE, she presented the International Creative Education Network (ICEnet), of which CCE is a founding partner. Several of the…</p>
<p>On 11 April 2015, <strong>Di Fisher-Naylor</strong>, Director of Programme Development at <strong>Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE)</strong>, led a workshop at <strong>Casgliad 2015</strong>, the first <strong>Youth Arts Network Cymru Conference</strong> held in Aberystwyth, Wales. After an introduction into the work, international programmes and values of CCE, she presented the International Creative Education Network (ICEnet), of which CCE is a founding partner. Several of the partners had been working together to develop the <strong>Self-Assessment Competency Framework for Creative Practitioners who work in educational settings to develop the creativity of children</strong>; this was part of the project Training Requirements and Key Skills for Artists and other creative practitioners to work in participatory settings (TRaKSforA), which was co-funded with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union. The SACF had been informed by the work of practitioners and cultural professionals across twelve European countries, and many of them shared their feedback on the draft versions of the SACF and wider issues through interviews, roundtables and workshops, among others. Prior to another set of roundtables and a soft-launch in Utrecht a few weeks later, it was hoped that a conversation with practitioners at the conference will further strengthen the framework’s content. Furthermore, the participants were to consider how the framework might be useful in the context of arts and creative learning in Wales.</p>
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<p>Di held a discussion with a small group of Welsh practitioners to learn about their perspective, their own practice and needs and the Welsh context. Through a series of brainstorming and reflection exercises she also gathered their ideas on tips for successful participatory practice and useful resources for early-stage youth arts practitioners to consult, for developing these competencies respectively: Artistic and creative practice; Organisation; Working with others; Face to face delivery and facilitation; and Reflection and evaluation.</p>
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<p>The participants’ contribution and their examples of successful approaches to practice development and sources of inspiration and advice helped shape the final stage of the SACF development. The hard work over the two years’ duration of the project and the quality of contribution from both partners and practitioners across Europe resulted in a framework that is hoped to be of value to be of great value to artists and creative practitioners at all stages of their careers, as well as to teachers and other people collaborating with them, training providers or policy makers, and consequently children, whose creative skills’ development is at the heart of the work.</p>
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<p>More information on the project and the SACF and other outcomes can be found <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/page/traksfora-leonardo" target="_self">here</a>.</p>
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<p>Photo: Jain Boon, National Youth Theatre Wales</p>
Mini Practitioner Forum and TRaKSforA Partnership Meeting Pécs
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2015-07-20T12:13:24.000Z
Radka Jágriková
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<p><span>Leonardo partnership project “Training Requirements and Key Skills for Artists and other creative practitioners to work in participatory settings“ (<a href="http://icenet.ning.com/page/traksfora-leonardo/" target="_self">TRaKSforA</a>) is a collaboration of partners from seven countries – UK, Czech Republic, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Croatia – along with other organisation supporting the project work. The main goal of the partnership was</span> to develop a…</p>
<p><span>Leonardo partnership project “Training Requirements and Key Skills for Artists and other creative practitioners to work in participatory settings“ (<a href="http://icenet.ning.com/page/traksfora-leonardo/" target="_self">TRaKSforA</a>) is a collaboration of partners from seven countries – UK, Czech Republic, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Croatia – along with other organisation supporting the project work. The main goal of the partnership was</span> to develop a Self-Assessment Competency Framework (SACF) for use by artists and other creative professionals working in participatory settings (such as schools, hospitals, community and youth centres, cultural organisations and others). This has now been successfully finished and is available <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/page/traksfora-leonardo" target="_self">here</a>.</p>
<p><span>The SACF has been informed by the work of practitioners and cultural professionals across twelve European countries, and the project activities included regular partner meetings along with practice visits, roundtables and others, making sure that creative practitioners are involved actively too. Along with interviews and roundtables, a small-scale practitioner forum was organised. This was held in Pécs, Hungary, on 11–14 November 2014, and saw twenty creative practitioners from five different countries to work collaboratively in local schools, delivering activities with pupils.</span></p>
<p>Please find a selection of photos from the practitioners' work in school, the forum and the accompanying activities below.</p>
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<p>Photo: T-Tudok, Hungary</p>
Ideas for reflection exercises
tag:icenet.ning.com,2015-05-13:6508239:BlogPost:10218
2015-05-13T08:56:47.000Z
Radka Jágriková
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<p>Whether you work with children or adults, community or a group of peers, reflection is always an important part of the success of the whole experience. There are many ways to reflect in the moment, depending on the group, the space and resources, the energy levels, the time available, etc.</p>
<p>Below you will find a few examples of the many reflection exercises used by Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) and its associates. However, there are many more possibilities. Do you know good…</p>
<p>Whether you work with children or adults, community or a group of peers, reflection is always an important part of the success of the whole experience. There are many ways to reflect in the moment, depending on the group, the space and resources, the energy levels, the time available, etc.</p>
<p>Below you will find a few examples of the many reflection exercises used by Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) and its associates. However, there are many more possibilities. Do you know good reflection exercises that you’ve used successfully or would like to try? Share these with us!</p>
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<p><strong>SCALE GAME</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">What happens?</span></p>
<ul>
<li>The facilitator uses a space to represent a scale that measures opinion or feeling about a subject.</li>
<li>Individuals are asked to place themselves on the ‘scale’ according to whether they agree or disagree with a statement. The facilitator starts with some fun statements first and then goes more deeply (such as starting with a statement “I like football” and then going deeper with “I feel confident speaking in front of large groups of people” or "I enjoy learning by doing.").</li>
<li>The facilitator asks some people why they are standing where they are.</li>
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<p><strong>I NOTICED</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Useful for:</span> Reflection, feedback, refinement after an exercise or assignment; can be used with groups of any size.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">What happens?</span></p>
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<li>The facilitator writes ‘I Noticed’, ‘I Liked’ and ‘Could you try…’ each on a separate sheet of paper.</li>
<li>Participants offer feedback by standing in front of one of the pages and beginning with that phrase.</li>
<li>People/groups receiving feedback are not allowed to respond, but instead must just absorb and consider what is said.</li>
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<p><strong>STICKY VALUES</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Useful for:</span> Closing a longer activity, leaving the group on a very positive note. A wrap-up exercise designed to praise and reflect moving forward.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">What happens?</span></p>
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<li>Using a sticky note (post-it), participants write something positive about someone in the room and place it on someone.</li>
<li>Everyone should have at least one note!</li>
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Publication: Policy Handbook on Promotion of Creative Partnerships
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2014-09-24T10:18:04.000Z
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<p>The publication, produced earlier in 2014 by the Open Method of Coordination expert working group of the European Council, looks at the types of successful practices and partnerships between cultural institutions/artists and other sectors, including education, that help transfer creative skills into other sectors. The handbook provides specific structured examples from various European countries, their analysis, models and positive impacts, includes tips on setting up creative partnerships,…</p>
<p>The publication, produced earlier in 2014 by the Open Method of Coordination expert working group of the European Council, looks at the types of successful practices and partnerships between cultural institutions/artists and other sectors, including education, that help transfer creative skills into other sectors. The handbook provides specific structured examples from various European countries, their analysis, models and positive impacts, includes tips on setting up creative partnerships, and gives suggestions on how these high-impact, low-cost solutions can be operated and used to address important issues that countries are facing.</p>
<p>The full report can be found <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/culture/library/reports/creative-partnerships_en.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> and the executive summary <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/culture/library/reports/creative-partnershipssum_en.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
Publication: Enabling Crossovers: Good Practices in the Creative Industries in Asia and Europe
tag:icenet.ning.com,2014-07-21:6508239:BlogPost:9004
2014-07-21T14:13:42.000Z
Radka Jágriková
http://icenet.ning.com/profile/RadkaJagrikova
<p><em><strong>Enabling Crossovers: Good Practices in the Creative Industries in Asia and Europe</strong></em> is a new publication by the Asia-Europe Foundation. It presents 36 good practices within four areas: creative skills, creative entrepreneurs, creative cities: sustainability, and creative cities: quality of life.</p>
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<p>In an essay by Ada Wong ‘Creative Skills for a Creative Economy’, she argues that: “Creative skills are not only for creative practitioners. Everyone…</p>
<p><em><strong>Enabling Crossovers: Good Practices in the Creative Industries in Asia and Europe</strong></em> is a new publication by the Asia-Europe Foundation. It presents 36 good practices within four areas: creative skills, creative entrepreneurs, creative cities: sustainability, and creative cities: quality of life.</p>
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<p>In an essay by Ada Wong ‘Creative Skills for a Creative Economy’, she argues that: “Creative skills are not only for creative practitioners. Everyone needs skills in thinking and creativity to succeed in the creative and sustainable economy of the twenty-first century. Creative skills should be a young person’s core competence and basic literacy.” However, in her opinion the concept of ‘creative skills’ is often seen as artistic proficiency within education systems and does not include critical thinking and problem-solving ability. She also proposes recommendations in areas related to creative skills.</p>
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<p>The Creative Skills features a variety of projects, programmes and organisations across Europe and Asia. Among these, two ICEnet partners are presented: <a href="http://www.creativitycultureeducation.org/" target="_blank">Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE)</a>, UK, and the <a href="http://www.creativitycultureeducation.org/ukpakistan-aice" target="_blank">Artists in Creative Education – Pakistan/UK project</a> co-organised by them, as well as the <a href="http://kulturradet.no/english/the-cultural-rucksack" target="_blank">Cultural Rucksack, Norway</a>.</p>
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<p>You can read the publication <a href="http://www.asef.org/images/ASEF_Publication_EnablingCrossovers.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
What We've Been Up To: Vitamine C, Belgium
tag:icenet.ning.com,2014-07-01:6508239:BlogPost:8103
2014-07-01T16:00:44.000Z
Radka Jágriková
http://icenet.ning.com/profile/RadkaJagrikova
<p>Our series of blog posts presenting recent work of ICEnet partner organisations continues – this time talking about <b>Vitamine C</b> from Flanders, Belgium.</p>
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<p>Vitamine C is a bottom-up platform for all, both in policy and in practice, who are passionate about connecting young people with the arts. It is a cross-cutting network that brings together cultural and arts centres, theatre and dance companies, museums, libraries, etc. – in short, people and children…</p>
<p>Our series of blog posts presenting recent work of ICEnet partner organisations continues – this time talking about <b>Vitamine C</b> from Flanders, Belgium.</p>
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<p>Vitamine C is a bottom-up platform for all, both in policy and in practice, who are passionate about connecting young people with the arts. It is a cross-cutting network that brings together cultural and arts centres, theatre and dance companies, museums, libraries, etc. – in short, people and children working with children and youth around arts. Vitamine C has a very strong international focus. In the first stage we want to enrich the Flemish practice and policy with an international dimension, and vice versa. In the second stage our goal is to strengthen international ties and contacts and to expand the network and in doing so, to establish a European and international Vitamine C network.</p>
<p>Apart from the network and platform Bruismee (<a href="http://bruismee.be" target="_self">http://bruismee.be</a>), Vitamine C organises events which aim to connect and inform their members: art teachers, art practitioners, art educators in a broader sense. During the past 9 months, Vitamine C co-organized three bigger events in Belgium: a three-day event in Antwerp, one eventful day in Brussels’ Bozar and a recent event evening ARTopia, in collaboration with Lasso in Beurschowburg, in Brussels. </p>
<p>From 23<sup>rd</sup> to 25<sup>th</sup> October Vitamine C co-organized a range of events in Antwerp. First one was on the evening of 23<sup>rd</sup> October. Located in a beautiful baroque church, AMUZ, the evening started with an inspiring keynote speech by Chris Torch, the founder of the renowned Swedish Intercult and a member of several European networks, including Culture Action Europe. The keynote was followed by networking for the participants, in a less formal setting. Participants could choose between joining in professional speed-dating or discussion tables. In the groups of 10 gathered around discussion tables, guests had the chance to engage in conversation with one of few international guests, professionals in art education, and learn about their work and their local cultural/educational politics.</p>
<p><img width="450" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002456128?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="450" class="align-center"/></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-1">Chris Torch giving a keynote speech</span></p>
<p>Next two days in Antwerp were reserved for meetings of ICEnet/TRaKSforA partners. Apart from the meetings themselves, this included study visits to inspiring organisations in Flanders, such as a practice visit to deFilharmonie , visiting De Tuin from HetPaleis or workshops and roundtables.</p>
<p>Second big event Vitamine C co-organized was the Eee-Changez! meeting of Flemish and Wallonian practitioners, on 4<sup>th</sup> December 201, in Bozar, Brussels. The aim of the meeting was for Flemish-speaking and French-speaking Belgians to learn about each other’s work, make connections and bring them closer in common interests. During the meeting, all members had the opportunity to introduce themselves and their work in short, as well as to network and learn something new through group discussions. The aim of Eee-Changez! is making a tour to visit good practices at both sides of the language border. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-1">Eee-Changez: presentation of participating organisations</span></p>
<p>The same day an inspiring lecture by Professor Louis Hetland was held. The lecture ‘The Benefits and Future of Visual Arts Education’ was held by one of the leading experts worldwide in the field today. Intended to motivate art educators and other professionals who in any way have impact on developing creativity in children and youth, Professor Hetland’s academic lecture was based on the topics of arts, culture and education in general. After the lecture, the audience had the opportunity to participate in a workshop, organized by Vitamine C, on the topic of Professor Hetland’s lecture. Divided into nine groups, the participants were able to discuss the issues brought up during the lecture from a practice-based perspective. (More about the event: <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lecture-on-visual-arts-education-held-in-brussels">http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lecture-on-visual-arts-education-held-in-brussels</a>)</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-1">Prof. Hetland referring to Banksy. ©Lisanne Valgaerts</span></p>
<p>Third big event worth mentioning was co-organized together with Lasso (link to Lasso: <a href="http://www.lasso.be/en/about">http://www.lasso.be/en/about</a>). The evening event ARTopia was held on 14<sup>th</sup> May in Beurschouwburg, in the heart of Brussels. Airan Berg, international “multi-practicum” professional in arts, education and culture, and Tuur Florizoone, Flemish musician, held “a musical speech” about artists as engines of social change. Questions they tried to answer were: Can artists act as engines for social change? And how can they intervene in the lives of young people? This event was intended for everyone who is passionate to bring arts and culture closer to children and young people, in a contemporary and new approach. After Airan and Tuur’s inspiring speech, several artists presented themselves to the audience and held round-table discussions. (More about the event: <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/airan-berg-and-artopia-in-brussels">http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/airan-berg-and-artopia-in-brussels</a>) (Video: Airan Berg on PechaKucha, Maastricht <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y0dRNbG2PE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y0dRNbG2PE</a>)</p>
<p>With this event and two Vitamine C core-group meetings, Vitamine C will bring this season to an end in order to take a break and get ready for another busy year ahead. </p>
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TRaKSforA partnership meeting Lillehammer
tag:icenet.ning.com,2014-06-28:6508239:BlogPost:7719
2014-06-28T17:00:00.000Z
Radka Jágriková
http://icenet.ning.com/profile/RadkaJagrikova
<p><span>Leonardo partnership project “Training Requirements and Key Skills for Artists and other creative practitioners to work in participatory settings“ (<a href="http://icenet.ning.com/page/traksfora-leonardo/" target="_self">TRaKSforA</a>) is a collaboration of partners from eight countries – UK, Czech Republic, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and Croatia – along with other organisation supporting the project work. The main goal is</span> to develop a Self-Assessment…</p>
<p><span>Leonardo partnership project “Training Requirements and Key Skills for Artists and other creative practitioners to work in participatory settings“ (<a href="http://icenet.ning.com/page/traksfora-leonardo/" target="_self">TRaKSforA</a>) is a collaboration of partners from eight countries – UK, Czech Republic, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and Croatia – along with other organisation supporting the project work. The main goal is</span> to develop a Self-Assessment Competency Framework (SACF) for use by artists and other creative professionals working in participatory settings (such as schools, hospitals, community centres, youth centres, cultural houses, etc.). </p>
<p>The latest meeting took place in Lillehammer, Norway, and was hosted by <span>Oppland fylkeskommune (Oppland County Council). Please find a selection of photos from the meeting and the accompanying activities below.</span></p>
<p><span>More information on the meeting (in Norwegian) and related videos (in English) can be found <a href="http://epi.oppland.org/Aktuelt/Ansattportalen/Hovedsaker/Den-gode-kunstneren-i-klasserommet/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><span class="font-size-2">*All photos were taken by Vivian Haverstadlokken of Oppland fylkeskommune. </span></p>
What We've Been Up To: Association for Creativity in Education, Czech Republic
tag:icenet.ning.com,2014-05-22:6508239:BlogPost:7706
2014-05-22T15:00:21.000Z
Radka Jágriková
http://icenet.ning.com/profile/RadkaJagrikova
<p>First in a series of blog posts presenting recent work of ICEnet partner organisations – focusing on <strong>Association for Creativity in Education</strong> ('<strong>Společnost pro kreativitu ve vzdělávání</strong>') from Czech Republic.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3"><b> It Matters to Us</b></span></span></p>
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<p>The Czech-and-Slovakian project It Matters to Us (in Czech ‘Týká se nás to!’) focuses on young people…</p>
<p>First in a series of blog posts presenting recent work of ICEnet partner organisations – focusing on <strong>Association for Creativity in Education</strong> ('<strong>Společnost pro kreativitu ve vzdělávání</strong>') from Czech Republic.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3"><b> It Matters to Us</b></span></span></p>
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<p>The Czech-and-Slovakian project It Matters to Us (in Czech ‘Týká se nás to!’) focuses on young people who are interested in art in public space and civic participation. It offers a great opportunity to actively engage in changing the environment they live in using two different tools to do so.</p>
<p>Firstly, the participants get to work with professional artists (from the field of hip hop, graffiti, street art or slam poetry), on an issue they choose, during several workshops. Secondly, the young people approach local representatives to discuss the issue with them, in order to learn what could be done about it from a political perspective.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crea-edu.cz/en" target="_blank">Association for Creativity in Education</a> is in charge of a Hip Hop group which has chosen two topics to work with. One part of the group is focusing on passivity of the society versus not being afraid to be active and engaged. The other part, coming from a small town called Jáchymov, wanted to challenge a problem of low to zero offer of part-time jobs for young people within the area they live. In cooperation with two rappers, Bonus and Idea, the participants created their own music and lyrics and recorded some tracks and demos reflecting the issues.</p>
<p>You can find two of the tracks on Youtube (in Czech only; translation should be added soon):</p>
<p>“Naše město (Our Town)”: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rBcbY9yws">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rBcbY9yws</a></p>
<p>“Šance sa chop (Take the Chance)”: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2C3egkQNP4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2C3egkQNP4</a></p>
<p><br/> After the tracks got recorded, there was an event organized in Jáchymov’s primary school for the pupils. We introduced the project, including a performance of the tracks and a lecture on engaged art, and a local representative was invited to discuss the issue of part-time jobs for young people. In the afternoon, workshops on hip hop and graffiti took place.</p>
<p>You may look at some pictures from the event:</p>
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<p>At the moment, the local representatives in Prague are being approached to open a discussion on using art as a tool for positive community development. We are also getting ready for the project’s great finale in June – a tour presenting the outcomes of all participants in Košice, Banská Bystrica (both in Slovakia) and Prague (Czech Republic).</p>
<p>This project was supported by the EU programme Youth in Action (Mládež v akci) and it is implemented in cooperation with Studio Citadela and cultural centres Záhrada and Tabačka.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="font-size-3"><b>We Create Together</b></span></span></p>
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<p>The project We Create Together (in Czech ‘Tvoříme Spolu’) connects art and creativity with integration. For a third year, we put together a small group of children from different ethnic minorities and the majority so that they can share a great adventure of creating a story together. This semester the story is evolving around the topic of creating a fantasy world. The group travels over there in order to meet locals (whoever they may be) and to engage with the community in a positive way. While doing so, the children cooperate with two different artists from the fields of visual art and drama, and an educational worker from The Counselling Centre for Integration.</p>
<p>The main goals of We Create Together are integrating children from ethnic minorities within a peer group that includes children from the majority, learning to respect and value differences of others, supporting the understanding and using of Czech language, and developing creativity and social competences of all the children. The project is supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. <br/> <br/> You can have a look at the pictures from our 3<sup>rd</sup> meeting where the group chose to visit the Ice-cream Land. They used a magical web to travel. Unfortunately, they got a bit lost on the way and had to communicate with several creatures (such as ghosts, snails or snakes) asking for the right directions. Going to the Ice-cream Land also took them through the ocean and the mountains, but in the end, they finally reached the destination. We shall see what happens next!</p>
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ICEnet Newsflash
tag:icenet.ning.com,2014-03-18:6508239:BlogPost:6981
2014-03-18T17:40:50.000Z
Radka Jágriková
http://icenet.ning.com/profile/RadkaJagrikova
<p><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002455838?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"></img></p>
<p>Hello all ICEnet Members!</p>
<p>Welcome to another ICEnet newsflash. In case your busy lives prevented you from visiting the online platform regularly, do not worry – we will update you on what you might have missed.</p>
<p><b>What’s happening on the platform?</b></p>
<p>Several blog posts presented interesting initiatives and practices all around the world – in…</p>
<p><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002455838?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></p>
<p>Hello all ICEnet Members!</p>
<p>Welcome to another ICEnet newsflash. In case your busy lives prevented you from visiting the online platform regularly, do not worry – we will update you on what you might have missed.</p>
<p><b>What’s happening on the platform?</b></p>
<p>Several blog posts presented interesting initiatives and practices all around the world – in <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/artists-working-with-special-needs-students-in-singapore">Singapore</a>, <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-successful-pedagogical-project-in-kulturfabrik-luxemburg">Luxembourg</a>, <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/video-innovative-approaches-to-science-education-in-japan">Japan</a>, <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/empowering-the-future">four European cities</a>, <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-role-of-participatory-arts-in-social-change-in-timor-leste-do">Timor-Leste</a>, <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/reforming-education-in-pakistan">Pakistan</a> or <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bermuda-s-cultural-resource-guide">Bermuda</a>, among others. These range from working with SEN students, to making Science more attractive, to ‘powerlabs’ allowing young people to participate actively in society. Other blog posts include for instance a <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/education-to-employment-report">report on what skills young people need to be ready for employment</a> or a <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lecture-on-visual-arts-education-held-in-brussels">detailed report on a Brussels lecture</a> on the benefits and future of visual arts education.</p>
<p align="center"><img width="400" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002459435?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="400"/></p>
<p>Upcoming events presented on the platform are currently a <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/events/free-conference-engaging-reluctant-learners-using-culture-heritag">conference on using heritage and culture to engage difficult-to-reach children</a> in England in March, as well as a <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/events/second-international-teaching-artist-conference">Teaching Artist conference</a> and a <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/events/34th-insea-world-congress-diversity-through-art">Diversity through Art congress</a>, both in Australia in July.</p>
<p>And don’t forget that <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/ICEnet/133263170204321">ICEnet is on Facebook</a> too. ‘Like’ the page and stay updated on new content on the platform or share your own projects and links.</p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: left;"><b>Are you looking for a partner for your project?</b></p>
<p>If you have a relevant – existing or potential – project that would benefit from more partners, feel free to spread the news on the ICEnet platform. We have a discussion forum category dedicated to <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/forum/categories/looking-for-partners/listForCategory">Looking for partners</a>, and all are very welcome to use it. We might promote it on our Facebook page too.</p>
<p><b>Is there something you’d like to share with others?</b></p>
<p>Would you like to share your or your organisation’s recent work that could inspire others – be it text, photos or videos? Do you know about an interesting event or opportunity? Have you found useful online resources? Have you recently been thinking about a problem that other creative practitioners and professionals could help you with? The platform is all yours.</p>
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<p>With best wishes</p>
<p><b><i>Your ICEnet Team</i></b></p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002459907?profile=original" target="_self">ICEnet-Newsflash-no2.pdf</a></p>
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<p><i>You can ask questions and share your feedback or suggestions with us on <a href="mailto:ICEnet@cceengland.org"><i>ICEnet@cceengland.org</i></a>.</i></p>
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Education to Employment Report
tag:icenet.ning.com,2014-03-17:6508239:BlogPost:7073
2014-03-17T18:09:04.000Z
Radka Jágriková
http://icenet.ning.com/profile/RadkaJagrikova
<p>As part of their research into education, The McKinsey Center for Government research youth employability and skills needed. They have published a report <a href="http://mckinseyonsociety.com/education-to-employment/europe-report/" target="_blank">Education to Employment: Getting Europe’s Youth into Work</a>, in which they also look at what skills young people lack from the point of view of the employers and what skills they consider important.</p>
<p>As presented in the table below, skills…</p>
<p>As part of their research into education, The McKinsey Center for Government research youth employability and skills needed. They have published a report <a href="http://mckinseyonsociety.com/education-to-employment/europe-report/" target="_blank">Education to Employment: Getting Europe’s Youth into Work</a>, in which they also look at what skills young people lack from the point of view of the employers and what skills they consider important.</p>
<p>As presented in the table below, skills which are in high demand yet often insufficient amongst European youth include creativity, problem solving and analysis, teamwork and other soft skills.</p>
<p><img width="540" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002456807?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="540"/></p>
<p>(You can find the <a href="http://mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Education/A4E2e_DOWNLOAD_BOOK_FINAL.pdf">full report here</a> and the <a href="http://mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Education/A4E2e_DOWNLOAD_ExecSumm_FINAL.pdf">executive summary here</a>.)</p>
<p>A complementary global report, <a href="http://mckinseyonsociety.com/education-to-employment/report/">Education to Employment: Designing a System that Works</a>, has been published too (you can find the <a href="http://mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Education/Education-to-Employment_FINAL.pdf">full report here</a> and the <a href="http://mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Education/Education-to-Employment-exec-summary_FINAL.pdf">executive summary here</a>).</p>
Video: Innovative Approaches to Science Education in Japan
tag:icenet.ning.com,2014-01-10:6508239:BlogPost:7115
2014-01-10T11:02:13.000Z
Radka Jágriková
http://icenet.ning.com/profile/RadkaJagrikova
<p>A report on how young people are encouraged to study Science in Japan through creative approaches to Science education.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2013/sep/26/science-teaching-japan-video">http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2013/sep/26/science-teaching-japan-video</a></p>
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<p>Source: Newton/theguardian.com, <span>Length: 27min 24sec</span></p>
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<p>A report on how young people are encouraged to study Science in Japan through creative approaches to Science education.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2013/sep/26/science-teaching-japan-video">http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2013/sep/26/science-teaching-japan-video</a></p>
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<p>Source: Newton/theguardian.com, <span>Length: 27min 24sec</span></p>
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The Role of Participatory Arts in Social Change in Timor-Leste (doctoral thesis)
tag:icenet.ning.com,2013-11-28:6508239:BlogPost:7102
2013-11-28T14:45:34.000Z
Radka Jágriková
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<p>The thesis looks at how social change can be effected through participation in the arts and examines this in the context of Timor-Leste in South East Asia. It includes, among others, case studies of existing initiatives in Timor-Leste, overview of models and approaches (such as social action, arts as therapy, and community cultural development) and a review of the literature on initiatives in which participatory arts are applied as a tool for social change.</p>
<p>The author of the thesis is…</p>
<p>The thesis looks at how social change can be effected through participation in the arts and examines this in the context of Timor-Leste in South East Asia. It includes, among others, case studies of existing initiatives in Timor-Leste, overview of models and approaches (such as social action, arts as therapy, and community cultural development) and a review of the literature on initiatives in which participatory arts are applied as a tool for social change.</p>
<p>The author of the thesis is Dr Kim Dunphy, Director of Australian NGO Many Hands International, dedicated to culture-based community development; Research Program Manager of the Cultural Development Network in Victoria, Australia; and Vice-President of the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australia.</p>
<p>The thesis can be viewed <a href="http://manyhands.org.au/uploads/files/Kim_Dunphy_PhD_thesis_final_submitted_29.10.13.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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Artists working with special needs students in Singapore
tag:icenet.ning.com,2013-11-19:6508239:BlogPost:6924
2013-11-19T12:41:00.000Z
Radka Jágriková
http://icenet.ning.com/profile/RadkaJagrikova
<p>New initiative by the National Arts Council Singapore promotes the use of arts to enhance learning of students with special education needs. It allows teaching artists and school teachers to develop and deliver together arts-based lessons as part of the core curriculum. Next to matching the teaching artists with the school to jointly develop programmes based on the school’s educational needs, teachers are provided artist-led training to make the impact sustainable. The NAC Artist-SPED School…</p>
<p>New initiative by the National Arts Council Singapore promotes the use of arts to enhance learning of students with special education needs. It allows teaching artists and school teachers to develop and deliver together arts-based lessons as part of the core curriculum. Next to matching the teaching artists with the school to jointly develop programmes based on the school’s educational needs, teachers are provided artist-led training to make the impact sustainable. The NAC Artist-SPED School Partnership Programme has been piloted in 5 schools so far.</p>
<p>You can learn more in the full news release byt the National Arts Council Singapore <a href="https://www.nac.gov.sg/media-centre/news-releases/news-detail?id=11f5117f-91c5-4628-9438-eba58d74042f" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>
Reforming education in Pakistan
tag:icenet.ning.com,2013-11-13:6508239:BlogPost:6829
2013-11-13T11:00:00.000Z
Radka Jágriková
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<p><strong>Artists in Creative Education – Pakistan and UK</strong> is an international project by Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE), UK; IKON, UK; <span>Vasl Artists Collective, Pakistan; and the British Council Pakistan. The project initially saw 3 UK artists and 3 Pakistani artists on exchange visits, receiving professional development training to enable them to employ their artistic skills effectively in educational settings and being placed in schools in Birmingham and Karachi. As…</span></p>
<p><strong>Artists in Creative Education – Pakistan and UK</strong> is an international project by Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE), UK; IKON, UK; <span>Vasl Artists Collective, Pakistan; and the British Council Pakistan. The project initially saw 3 UK artists and 3 Pakistani artists on exchange visits, receiving professional development training to enable them to employ their artistic skills effectively in educational settings and being placed in schools in Birmingham and Karachi. As part of the project, a big public event took place on 26 September 2013 in Karachi, featuring a panel discussion with the artists and staff members involved, as well as a presentation by <strong>Paul Collard</strong>, Chief Executive of CCE. Paul talked about the power of creativity, arts and culture. H<span>e explained that learning of drama, design, music, writing or filmmaking could enhance teaching of non-arts subjects and also contribute to a peaceful and collaborative environment. The<span> artists involved in the project have been trained to help change the role of teachers, their organisation of time and space, as well as approach to tasks.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>To read more, please follow the link to the original news item in the Express Tribune, Pakistan: <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/610424/reforming-education-application-of-creative-practices-in-curriculum-essential-for-learning/" target="_blank">http://tribune.com.pk/story/610424/reforming-education-application-of-creative-practices-in-curriculum-essential-for-learning/</a></span></span></span></p>
Scotland's Creative Learning Plan
tag:icenet.ning.com,2013-11-01:6508239:BlogPost:6916
2013-11-01T11:28:00.000Z
Radka Jágriková
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<p>A plan <span>to improve the quality and quantity of creative learning opportunities and initiatives throughout Scotland has recently been published. Each of the partners – <span>Creative Scotland, Education Scotland, Scottish Government, College Development Network, and Association of Directors of Education in Scotland, Skills Development Network, General Teaching Council for Scotland and the Scottish Qualification Authority – will implement a series of specific actions. The…</span></span></p>
<p>A plan <span>to improve the quality and quantity of creative learning opportunities and initiatives throughout Scotland has recently been published. Each of the partners – <span>Creative Scotland, Education Scotland, Scottish Government, College Development Network, and Association of Directors of Education in Scotland, Skills Development Network, General Teaching Council for Scotland and the Scottish Qualification Authority – will implement a series of specific actions. The document <span>presents an ambitious vision for creativity in education over the next 10 years.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>Ruth Wishart, Chair of the Creative Learning Plan Strategic Group, said: “As the Creative Learning Plan illustrates, creative learning and teaching can make the classroom a more exciting place across every part of the curriculum. And excitement and curiosity, allied to a free reign for the imagination, are absolutely key to letting every student, and every teacher, reach their full potential.”</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>Source: <a href="http://www.ifacca.org/national_agency_news/2013/09/25/scotlands-creative-learning-plan/" target="_blank">http://www.ifacca.org/national_agency_news/2013/09/25/scotlands-creative-learning-plan/</a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>Full Scotland's Creative Learning plan document can be found here: <a href="http://www.creativescotland.com/explore/education/scotlands-creative-learning-plan" target="_blank">http://www.creativescotland.com/explore/education/scotlands-creative-learning-plan</a></span></span></span></span></p>
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Cultural Learning for Families - final report
tag:icenet.ning.com,2013-10-14:6508239:BlogPost:6818
2013-10-14T16:18:19.000Z
Radka Jágriková
http://icenet.ning.com/profile/RadkaJagrikova
<p>Grundtvig learning partnership of partners from Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Spain, co-ordinated by EDUCULT (Austria), researched existing approaches to family learning in cultural and creative education settings.</p>
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<p>The report offers an overview of the learning partnership; presents quality criteria for cultural learning for families based on observations and discussions; presents brief case studies of visited institutions; and includes a self-assessment…</p>
<p>Grundtvig learning partnership of partners from Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Spain, co-ordinated by EDUCULT (Austria), researched existing approaches to family learning in cultural and creative education settings.</p>
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<p>The report offers an overview of the learning partnership; presents quality criteria for cultural learning for families based on observations and discussions; presents brief case studies of visited institutions; and includes a self-assessment template.</p>
<p>The final report can be found <a href="http://educult.at/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Grundtvig_FamilyLearning_report_final1.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://educult.at/en/forschung/cultural-learning-for-families/" target="_blank">EDUCULT website</a>.</p>
ICEnet on Facebook
tag:icenet.ning.com,2013-08-30:6508239:BlogPost:6336
2013-08-30T16:29:54.000Z
Radka Jágriková
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<p>ICEnet has got its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/ICEnet/133263170204321" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> now as well! We will be reminding you of interesting content on the platform, sharing new items, asking questions, giving answers – and making sure you have another way to discuss and learn more about everything related to creative education. Like, comment, share, post, link; lurk secretly or flood it with your presence; and enjoy!</p>
<p>ICEnet has got its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/ICEnet/133263170204321" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> now as well! We will be reminding you of interesting content on the platform, sharing new items, asking questions, giving answers – and making sure you have another way to discuss and learn more about everything related to creative education. Like, comment, share, post, link; lurk secretly or flood it with your presence; and enjoy!</p>
ICEnet Featured Member – Nikky Smedley, UK – interview
tag:icenet.ning.com,2013-08-09:6508239:BlogPost:5575
2013-08-09T14:06:07.000Z
Radka Jágriková
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Nikky Smedley on Creative Education – interview</strong></span></p>
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<p><b>Nikky, you have a lot of experience of working for and with children. What does this mean to you? And what would you say is the main difference for you between working with children and working with adults?</b></p>
<p>[Nikky] That’s an interesting one. A lot of my work has a great deal of humour at its core, and anyone who…</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Nikky Smedley on Creative Education – interview</strong></span></p>
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<p><b>Nikky, you have a lot of experience of working for and with children. What does this mean to you? And what would you say is the main difference for you between working with children and working with adults?</b></p>
<p>[Nikky] That’s an interesting one. A lot of my work has a great deal of humour at its core, and anyone who knows children knows that they like a lot of repetition – adults like to think they are more sophisticated than that. However, in England at least, some of our most popular TV comedy shows get a lot of their laughs through weekly repetition of ‘catch phrases’, so maybe there’s not so much difference in what adults and children find amusing and/or interesting.</p>
<p>With my Storytelling, I’m always careful to put in references that the adults can relate to, and I generally find that they enjoy my performances as much as the children.</p>
<p>In short, it’s my passionate belief that whilst tempering language in order for children to engage, challenge on all levels is important, and, as with adults, no young person likes to feel patronised or talked down to – I try to treat children in the way I would like to be treated myself.</p>
<p>In a special needs setting, as with any other, my mantra is to go to the person, rather than to the disability or mental health issue. Remaining sensitive to who the individual is that you’re dealing with carries across any situation, and even when performing, particularly on TV or film, it pays to think of how a singular individual is receiving and interpreting what you are offering them. </p>
<p>In education, I’m a great advocate of student voice – and not in a tokenistic way – I think, again from an English perspective, we don’t give children enough credit for knowing what they want to learn, how they want to learn it, and who they want to grow into.</p>
<p>It’s important to develop adult ears alongside child voice, there’s nothing more demoralising than being asked for your opinion and then having it ignored. I cover some of these issues in various blogs on the <a href="http://changingcultures.org/" target="_blank"><strong>changing cultures</strong> website</a>.</p>
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<p><b>Do you have a particularly memorable experience of working with children or young people that you would like to share?</b></p>
<p>[Nikky] To illustrate some of the above – and the moment when I realised it doesn’t always take a bit of paper to let you know you’re a teacher – my favourite classroom moment was in a tiny rural primary school with a group of combined year 3/year 4.</p>
<p>I’d been brought in to develop literacy, particularly in terms of imaginative content and creative vocabulary; the class were ‘doing’ Egypt. In order to engender an enthusiasm for language, I’d introduced the children to the concept of etymology, starting with helping a girl remember the difference between “exhibition” and “exPEDition”, by flamboyantly pointing to my foot – or “ped” in latin – and (asking them to do the same) explaining that’s also where we get the word “pedestrian”; similarly with “hand”/“man(us)” and “manicure”, “manual”, etc.</p>
<p>It helped that the following week, they studied body parts in French, so saw the connection with a simple addition of the letter “i” [pied = foot, main = hand]. I had become used to being kept on my toes with the question, “Where does that word come from, Miss?” and carried my etymological dictionary with me, just in case.</p>
<p>So – we came to the Sphinx and I looked it up in advance, finding out (isn’t it great how teaching forces us to learn?) that the word comes from the Greek root “sphig” meaning ‘squeeze’. I explained this when the inevitable question came, but confessed I had no idea why. One of the boys put up his hand and asked, “Miss, could it be because the Sphinx is three creatures ‘squeezed’ together?”</p>
<p>Brilliant. I am constantly humbled by what children are capable of when you give them the opportunity to figure things out for themselves.</p>
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<p><b>This story illustrates nicely Inquisitiveness, one of the Five Habits of Mind (Inquisitive, Persistent, Imaginative, Collaborative, Disciplined) as referred to within Creative Partnerships programme and work of Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE). How do you believe your work in creative education, be it via Creative Partnerships, ‘changing cultures’ or independent work, has helped develop these qualities and other creative skills in children?</b></p>
<p>[Nikky] Prior to working within the Creative Partnerships programme, my experience in schools had been either as a straightforward dance/movement teacher, or as a creative ‘artist in residence’ for one-off projects. Whilst I believe there can be value in those projects, the real eye-opener for me was how much deeper and more impactful the learning could be, once a creative practitioner really gets involved with the school and education in general. It was a steep learning curve at first, but premises such as the Five Habits of Mind were really helpful in getting my head round the broader issues of creative teaching and learning.</p>
<p> I believe that children are naturally inquisitive and imaginative, and the role of creativity in education is to validate each child’s version of these skills, and to give a forum, and, more importantly, permission, for children to use them freely. When it comes to discipline, collaboration and persistence, I think the key is to inspire children to find and employ these facets for themselves. If you can introduce a creative activity (in the broadest sense) where it becomes vital to the children themselves to motivate themselves, work together and stay with it until the job is done, then they are much more likely to accept and use these qualities than if you merely tell them they have to. I have found the best way to do this is for them to completely own the process from start to finish - their initial ideas, taken seriously and implemented; supported through development; and praised on completion, however that completion may look.</p>
<p>Observational skills are key here - looking for the points at which you can verify and encourage, offer assistance if needed and pick out the achievements, no matter how seemingly small, as and when they happen.</p>
<p><b>changing cultures</b> recently worked with a massive (over 14 sites) hospital school to create and stage their first whole school production. Although from the outside, the brief looked like, ‘putting on a play’- because the young people’s ideas formed every part of the content - script, costume, set, film, music, lights, stage management etc. - they truly felt it to be theirs, and astounded themselves, staff and parents with what they were able to achieve - both in the quality of the end product, and the positive shifts in behaviours manifest through the process.</p>
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<p><b>What advice would you give to other creative practitioners, either just beginning in the sphere of creative education or looking for some inspiration?</b></p>
<p>[Nikky] Following on from my previous responses (and <a href="http://www.tedxwarwick.com/2013/speaker.php?id=16">my TED talk</a>), it should be no surprise that my check list is as follows:</p>
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<li>You don’t have to have all the answers.</li>
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<li>Treat your young people with the same respect you would like to have afforded to yourself.</li>
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<li>Be a real human being. Children always report back that their favourite lessons are those conducted by educators who aren’t afraid to reveal something of their true selves.</li>
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<li>Play. Education is an important business, but children learn so much more (and so do you) where there is happiness and enjoyment. It’s okay to laugh!</li>
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<li>Make friends with as many of the grown-ups who work in or are associated with the school as you can – no matter what the perceived hierarchy.</li>
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<li>Use film, photography and other recorded media. Even if this is not at the core of your practice, children’s confidence grows when they can see themselves achieving.</li>
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<li>Learn about the school, the challenges it faces, and keep up to date with the current changes in education – teachers will respect you more if you know what pressures they are experiencing.</li>
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<li>Be explicit about the rigour behind your creative practice – it’s not always apparent to staff why you are doing what you’re doing.</li>
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<li>Be prepared, but don’t over-plan – be ready to be flexible if the children want to take things in an unexpected direction.</li>
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<li>Develop your observational skills – visual, aural and physical, and feed what you observe back into your planning. Listen very carefully to what’s going on, and respect it.</li>
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<li>Make a mess, safely, and show that no one gets hurt if you take a well-judged risk; it’s fun!</li>
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<li>Learn to express what you do in words and, where possible, give staff a piece of writing suggesting how they might build on what you have done.</li>
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<li>There’s nothing more inspiring than young people; let them know that you give them permission to offer up anything to you, and it will be valued.</li>
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<li>Remember what we do is a privilege – it helps on dark, wet early mornings on the way to somewhere you’re not sure you’re welcomed by all!</li>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002456922?profile=original" target="_self">ICEnet-Featured-Member-Nikky-Smedley-interview.pdf</a></p>
ICEnet Featured Member – Nikky Smedley, UK
tag:icenet.ning.com,2013-08-09:6508239:BlogPost:5816
2013-08-09T13:44:14.000Z
Radka Jágriková
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<p>Dear ICEnet members</p>
<p>ICEnet is a community full of fascinating and inspiring people, stories, experiences, successes and aspirations. As it would be a pity for them to stay unnoticed, we have decided to feature every now and then ICEnet members whose work might give you something to think about.</p>
<p>So, without further ado, let us introduce to you…</p>
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<p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>Nikky Smedley</b></span></p>
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<p><b>Who is…</b></p>
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<p>Dear ICEnet members</p>
<p>ICEnet is a community full of fascinating and inspiring people, stories, experiences, successes and aspirations. As it would be a pity for them to stay unnoticed, we have decided to feature every now and then ICEnet members whose work might give you something to think about.</p>
<p>So, without further ado, let us introduce to you…</p>
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<p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>Nikky Smedley</b></span></p>
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<p><b>Who is Nikky?</b></p>
<p>Dancer, storyteller, puppeteer, actress, creative agent, choreographer, educationalist, director, Pilates instructor – this and a lot more describes Nikky Smedley from England, with her experience in and passion for theatre, communication and education.</p>
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<p><b>What is her experience in creative education?</b></p>
<p>Nikky’s role as a creative educationalist developed through several years of working as a <u>Creative Agent</u>, delivering the (former) flagship UK government Creative Partnerships programme for the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Area (Cre8us) – in infant, primary, secondary and special school settings. She brokered relationships with artists and consultants to work in partnership with the whole school community, acting as a 'critical friend' helping schools explore creativity and pupil ownership. Within Creative Partnerships, she also used movement, storytelling, puppeteering, creative play, visual arts and media as part of her role as a <u>Creative Practitioner</u> in schools. Six years of working within Creative Partnerships led to further work as an <u>Independent Consultant</u>, continuing co-operation with school senior management teams on recruitment procedures, evaluation and planning frameworks, curriculum development, and creative teaching and learning techniques. More independent work followed, such as mentoring, creative consultancy, sitting on advisory panels and conference speaking. </p>
<p>Though the Creative Partnerships programme is not running in the UK any more, Nikky has continued with creative education work as part of <a href="http://changingcultures.org/"><b>changing cultures</b></a>, a collective of five professionals who help clients in education, the arts and cultural sector and creative industries. She works across the board, helping clients to see things from a different perspective; open up their thinking; find ways to achieve more; inspire progress; and evaluate past to inform the future.</p>
<p><b>changing cultures</b> still adhere to the central Creative Partnerships ethos, with a belief in the value of genuine student voice and the use of creative thinking and doing to engage children in school, and life. Whether through the performing arts; individual teacher support; environmental development; or consultation with senior leadership; what Nikky brings from her time with Creative Partnerships is a complete commitment to enabling young people to inspire and direct their own learning experiences, under skilled adult guidance. She strives to engender in children a lifelong enthusiasm for learning and personal development, and knows the crucial role that confidence in their own ability to think creatively and support for their own ideas and ways of doing things can play in this.</p>
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<p><b>What else has she done and achieved?</b></p>
<p>She toured the UK, Europe and the Middle East as Artistic Director of her own physical theatre company for sixteen years. She was afterwards cast as <a href="http://www.teletubbies.co.uk/en/eh-oh-laalaa.asp">Laa Laa</a>, the famous yellow Teletubby. A further decade in children’s broadcast television followed and saw her producing, directing, choreographing, performing, writing, devising, marketing and merchandising. Her artistic work led to two Digital Dance Awards, a Bonnie Bird New Choreography Award and a BAFTA nomination.</p>
<p>Work in education has not been confined to the UK – she has taught in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Austria too – as well as creating, directing and hosting live events for children in the USA.</p>
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<p>Nikky is currently Director of Communications at <a href="http://changingcultures.org/"><b>changing cultures</b></a> (working closely with another ICEnet member, <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profile/NicolaRichardson">Nicola Richardson</a>), as well as being The Storyteller (or Professor Smedley of Storytelling!) in schools and at cultural events and venues, and is also a Senior Business Coach and Pilates and Postural Instructor.</p>
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<p>For more information about Nikky and her work, visit:</p>
<p><a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profile/NikkySmedley">http://icenet.ning.com/profile/NikkySmedley</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thestoryteller.me.uk/">http://www.thestoryteller.me.uk/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://changingcultures.org/directors/nikky-smedley/">http://changingcultures.org/directors/nikky-smedley/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nikkysmedley.me.uk/">http://www.nikkysmedley.me.uk/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/nikky-smedley/37/611/627">http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/nikky-smedley/37/611/627</a></p>
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<p><b>We talked to Nikky about her experience of working with children within creative education and about useful tips to know</b></p>
<p>Here are some extracts:</p>
<p><i>“No young person likes to feel patronised or talked down to – I try to treat children in the way I would like to be treated myself.”</i></p>
<p><i>“I am constantly humbled by what children are capable of when you give them the opportunity to figure things out for themselves.”</i></p>
<p><i>“Be a real human being. Children always report back that their favourite lessons are those conducted by educators who aren’t afraid to reveal something of their true selves.”</i></p>
<p>To read the full interview, please follow this <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/icenet-featured-member-nikky-smedley-uk-interview" target="_blank">link</a> or open the <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002456922?profile=original" target="_blank">pdf version</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002456836?profile=original" target="_self">ICEnet-Featured-Member-Nikky-Smedley.pdf</a></p>
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ICEnet Newsflash no.1
tag:icenet.ning.com,2013-07-30:6508239:BlogPost:5259
2013-07-30T16:20:26.000Z
Radka Jágriková
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<p>Dear ICEnet members</p>
<p>Welcome to the first official <b>ICEnet newsflash</b>! With nearly a hundred members now, our community is growing nicely. There are creative professionals who attended the International Creative Practitioners Forum in Vilnius in May (which marked the official launch of ICEnet online platform); those involved in Creative Partnerships Norway; artists involved in the exchange Artists in Creative Education – Pakistan and UK; and…</p>
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<p>Dear ICEnet members</p>
<p>Welcome to the first official <b>ICEnet newsflash</b>! With nearly a hundred members now, our community is growing nicely. There are creative professionals who attended the International Creative Practitioners Forum in Vilnius in May (which marked the official launch of ICEnet online platform); those involved in Creative Partnerships Norway; artists involved in the exchange Artists in Creative Education – Pakistan and UK; and others.</p>
<p><b>What’s new on the platform?</b></p>
<p>Many videos taken at the International Creative Practitioners Forum in Vilnius have been uploaded now. Next to practitioners and organisers’ representatives talking about the importance of communities such as ICEnet, do not miss out on the keynote speeches from <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=Paul+Collard">Paul Collard</a> and <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=Milda+Lauzikaite">Milda Lauzikaite</a>. Milda, for instance, talks about the community of people involved in Creative Partnerships Lithuania and how they learn from each other and improve their practice. She hopes that could be true for the ICEnet community as well.</p>
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<p>Next to many photos from the Forum, you can have a look at some other groups and projects in action too, such as the <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/photo/albums/artists-in-creative-education-pakistan-and-uk">artists exchange between Pakistan and UK</a> or training for Creative Agents within <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/photo/albums/creative-partnerships-norway-oppland">Creative Partnerships Norway – Oppland</a>. See that professional development for creative practitioners can also be fun – be it wearing <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/photo/aice-pakistan-and-uk-birmingham-may-2013-6?context=album&albumId=6508239%3AAlbum%3A4389">paper hats</a> or making a <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/photo/oppland-june-2013-11?context=album&albumId=6508239%3AAlbum%3A4373">creative response to a space</a>…</p>
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<p>Check new <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blog/list">blog posts</a> too, to learn about a new toolkit with guidance and resources for increasing “family-friendliness” of arts and leisure organisations and networks, <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/flybox">Flybox</a> (by <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profile/EefjeRaets">Eefje Raets</a>) or to read about recent international <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/profiles/blogs/recent-work-of-creativity-culture-and-education-uk-paul-collard-s">work of Creativity, Culture and Education, UK</a>, from its Chief Executive Paul Collard.</p>
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<p>More newsflashes, including some reflecting specifically on the Forum in Vilnius or featuring specific ICEnet members, will come your way soon. Also, new <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/page/links">Links</a> and <a href="http://icenet.ning.com/page/publications">Publications</a> are being added, so don’t forget to check again! </p>
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<p> <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3002460087?profile=original" target="_self">ICEnet-Newsflash-no1.pdf</a></p>
<p><i>Do you have any feedback or suggestions on how to make ICEnet and its newsflashes even better? Please let us know at <a href="mailto:ICEnet@cceengland.org">ICEnet@cceengland.org</a>.</i></p>
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Recent work of Creativity, Culture and Education, UK: Paul Collard’s blog
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2013-07-04T10:40:09.000Z
Radka Jágriková
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<p>Paul Collard's first blog is now on the Creativity, Culture and Education website – to read the blog click <a href="http://www.creativitycultureeducation.org/paul-collards-blog-june-2013" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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<p>Paul Collard's first blog is now on the Creativity, Culture and Education website – to read the blog click <a href="http://www.creativitycultureeducation.org/paul-collards-blog-june-2013" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
After a month – Forum Vilnius 2013
tag:icenet.ning.com,2013-06-24:6508239:BlogPost:4503
2013-06-24T11:24:45.000Z
Radka Jágriková
http://icenet.ning.com/profile/RadkaJagrikova
<p>It’s been a month now since the International Creative Practitioners Forum participants returned from Vilnius to their homes all over Europe. What was the month like? At what occasion did you get a chance to use something particular that you’d learnt at the Forum? Did something make you recall particular people/events/discussions from the Forum? Have you stayed in touch with people you had met there? Any interesting collaborations emerging?</p>
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<p>Let us know how your life and work…</p>
<p>It’s been a month now since the International Creative Practitioners Forum participants returned from Vilnius to their homes all over Europe. What was the month like? At what occasion did you get a chance to use something particular that you’d learnt at the Forum? Did something make you recall particular people/events/discussions from the Forum? Have you stayed in touch with people you had met there? Any interesting collaborations emerging?</p>
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<p>Let us know how your life and work are going post-Forum! :)</p>
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We need to make artists in every profession
tag:icenet.ning.com,2013-06-12:6508239:BlogPost:4158
2013-06-12T11:36:37.000Z
Radka Jágriková
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<p>I recently discovered an intriguing quote:</p>
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<p><strong>"We need to make Artists in every profession."</strong></p>
<p><em>Jody Giles, CIO of Under Armour, Inc</em>.</p>
<p>Source: Education Closet, <em><a href="http://educationcloset.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/creativity-infographic.pdf" target="_blank">How Creativity Changes the Game</a></em></p>
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<p>I like how this fits my belief that creative thinking, originality, playfulness, openness to unconventional ideas and…</p>
<p>I recently discovered an intriguing quote:</p>
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<p><strong>"We need to make Artists in every profession."</strong></p>
<p><em>Jody Giles, CIO of Under Armour, Inc</em>.</p>
<p>Source: Education Closet, <em><a href="http://educationcloset.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/creativity-infographic.pdf" target="_blank">How Creativity Changes the Game</a></em></p>
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<p>I like how this fits my belief that creative thinking, originality, playfulness, openness to unconventional ideas and artistry are of a great value in all spheres of work and life; how artists are able to share and teach more than just their technical skills; and how working in classrooms doesn't mean just helping to create skillful painters, actors or writers, but also successful thinkers, politicians, doctors or police officers.</p>
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<p>What do you think about this quote? What thoughts does it inspire?</p>
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International Creative Practitioners Forum – reflection board
tag:icenet.ning.com,2013-06-03:6508239:BlogPost:4307
2013-06-03T14:00:02.000Z
Radka Jágriková
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<p>Some of you taking part in the event in Vilnius on 22–24 May 2013 might have missed our nice colourful reflection board situated in the Open Space of the venue, which provided some key ideas and reflections on the Forum and mainly its workshops. Facilitators of each workshop provided the two creative minds (and four creative hands) working relentlessly until the very end of the Forum with their feedback on questions emerged, emotions triggered or discussed, major ideas/issues, structure of…</p>
<p>Some of you taking part in the event in Vilnius on 22–24 May 2013 might have missed our nice colourful reflection board situated in the Open Space of the venue, which provided some key ideas and reflections on the Forum and mainly its workshops. Facilitators of each workshop provided the two creative minds (and four creative hands) working relentlessly until the very end of the Forum with their feedback on questions emerged, emotions triggered or discussed, major ideas/issues, structure of the workshop or participants' reflections at the end of the workshop. These were all processed and put together in an intriguing, structured yet visually pleasing and unique way.</p>
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<p>(You can access the picture in full (readable) size <a href="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8411/8830343934_e2899e7262_o.png" target="_blank">here</a>.)</p>
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<p>Look up the workshops you attended. Can you think of other interesting issues not mentioned?</p>