European Arts Education Fact Finding Mission &Arts Education Monitoring System

Peter Szokol/ Michael Wimmer

Research on Resources for Arts and Cultural Education

EDUCULTs Projects

European Arts Education Fact Finding Mission (2010)

Arts Education Monitoring System (2011 – 2013)

Research on Resources in Arts and Cultural Education

Resource dimensions• Financial resources• Human resources• Material resources• Organisational resources• Time

Focus on cultural institutionsResearch in Western CountriesExisting DataQualitative interviews

FFM → Systematic Challenges → AEMS

Defining Arts Education

“Is it arts-, artistic-, creative- or cultural education?”

AEMS:Participative approachDefinition by cultural institutions / practitioners

Governmental Institutions

Less transparencyInterest drivenFear of loosing their latitudeResponsibility?

AEMS:Collection of existing dataReport on stakeholders Round tables with civil servants and decision makersInitiating further data development in collaboration

Cultural Institutions

Transparency for what?Feeling observed!Capacity to provide data?

AEMS:Make their efforts visible Strengthen their positionReflecting with practitioners

Project Based Activities

Additional offersSpecial programsFragility of provisionPreservation of traditional formats

AEMS:Monitoring on institutional/micro levelIs it of strategic importance in cultural institutions?What´s the meaning of this fragile context for practitioners?

Which Resources are Making Sense to compare?

Deviations in Arts Education Budgets Problems of calculating overheads (infrastructure, support of marketing)Question of excess not ownership

AEMS:Investigation of Human ResourcesQuantitative Data (FTE, salaries,..)Working conditions (role, position)Qualifications

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