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How can CICLO contribute to strengthen Arts Education in
Denmark
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• 2006: Anne Bamford report on the standard of Arts education in Danish School system (The ildsjæl in the classroom)
• Can we do better? How can we do better?• Follow up: 2010 UNESCO in Denmark
organized a national conference on Arts Education
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UNESCO’s 2nd International Conference on Arts Education in Seoul, S. Korea in 2010.• GOAL 1: Ensure that arts education is accessible as a
fundamental and sustainable component of a high quality renewal of education
• GOAL 2: Assure that arts education activities and programs are of a high quality in conception and delivery
• GOAL 3: Apply arts education principles and practices to contribute to resolving the social and cultural challenges facing today’s world
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• The Seoul agenda• Annual UNESCO Arts Education Week • Last week of May• First time 2012
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The Danish Translation of the Seoul Agenda
Improving Access • Widen students, teachers and schools access
to arts education. • Organize a group of stakeholders representing
both schools and organizations experienced in performing together with the schools
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The Danish Translation of the Seoul Agenda
Improving Quality • Strengthen the quality of art education in
methods, performance and communication. • Work together with professionals.
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The Danish Translation of the Seoul Agenda
Address social and cultural global challenges • Reflect how circular patterns in music, sound,
nature and human life and the idea of sustainability interact and communicate
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The Danish Translation of the Seoul Agenda• We wanted to cooperate with schools and organizations in
other countries and take the global perspective. • We took advantage in the coincidence with the UN high-
level World conference Rio +20 with focus on sustainability
• We took contact to schools and organizations in Rio/Brazil • We adopted the Brazilian/Portuguese word: CICLO to
describe circular patterns in music and circular idea of sustainability.
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The CICLO project May 2012
Activities and Performances in • 4 Danish cities and 7 schools• 9 schools in Rio de Janeiro
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The overall aim wee addressed • Arts education shall address social and cultural
challenges• Creative use of sound and music • Information technology across the Atlantic
about sustainability
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The second Seoul recommendation: Improving quality:• Invited the teachers together with
professional musicians and the professional joined and inspired the children
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The second Seoul recommendation: Improving quality:• Web site – platform for communication between the schools
and between Denmark and Brazil – platform for materials for inspiration to the
teachers (manuals, texts, downloads of videos, music etc.)
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Welcome speech from the Danish Minister of Education, Ms. Christine Antorini • Support and interest to the project and wished
the very best for the children• Highlighted the combination of musicality,
creativity and the commitment for the solving the environmental problems of the world
• And the importance of the transcontinental perspective of the project.
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How can the CICLO project contribute to strengthen Arts Education in Denmark?• The actual political debate in Denmark right
now on ‘Making a good school better’• The aspirations of CICLO: Improve the quality
of education – with focus on Arts Education
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• The combination of Arts, physical activities, traditional skills
• The cooperation between the professionals in the schools (the teachers) and the professionals outside (musicians, artist etc.)
• The cooperation between schools and the cultural organizations and institutions
• The international perspective – a challenge and an inspiration.
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• New paths, new possibilities – and a little step further to fulfill the ambitions in the Seoul Agenda.
• Close connection and coincidence between the Seoul Agenda and the actual debate on the Danish schools
• We have been inspired to move on next year