a European and international symposium on

research carried out into evaluating

the impact of arts & cultural education

ON CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

 

will be held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris on January, 10, 11 & 12, 2007

 

Call for papers – GUIDELINES

 

Introduction: aims and  content of the symposium

This European and international symposium will welcome individuals and research teams that have studied the impact of arts and cultural education on children and young people.

The symposium will notably try to highlight the positive impact arts and cultural education could have:

-  on the cognitive development and academic achievement of children,

- on the acquisition of certain personality traits,

- on the acquisition of social skills,

-  on helping reduce the disparity between the academic results of privileged and underprivileged children,

-   on helping each individual to build his own cultural identity, to discover and respect different cultural identities,

-   on the sensitivity to the arts.

Through its evaluation of the impact of arts education, the symposium will seek to highlight the relationship between details of implementation of arts and cultural education and results obtained, trying in particular to assess the added value of the various schemes offering cultural activities.

This evaluation will also focus on training schemes for teachers, artists and other professionals involved in the educational field.

Lastly, the symposium will focus on research conducted over wide areas (be they national or regional), in order to measure the global impact of educational arts policies (for example, in terms of pupil success, or the development of new cultural practices).

 

The parameters of this research should be understood in the broad sense that the notion of arts and cultural education carries in France : arts teaching as part of the school curriculum, arts and cultural activities carried out during school time and free time, arts teaching given out of school hours by specialized teaching institutions.

 

Over the course of the 3 days, the question of the evaluation of the impact of arts and cultural education will be approached from a variety of disciplines (psychology and child development, sociology, cognitive sciences etc).

 

 
 
Proposals for papers

The proposed papers (6000 and 8000 characters) should be presented in the following way :

-       Name of the author(s)

-       Title of the paper

-       Abstract of the paper (aims, methods, main results)

Please complete the submission form (emailed on request) and send it in electronic form with your proposal for paper.

 

 

 

Schedule

It is recommended to submit proposals for papers before January 15, 2006.

However proposals for papers will be accepted until March 31, 2006.

Completed texts of papers should be submitted before June 30, 2006 (*).

 

Proposals for papers will be subjected to a preliminary examination by the scientific committee, which is chaired by Emmanuel Fraisse, Director of the French National Institute of Pedagogic Research.

It has not been defined yet when authors will receive notification of acceptance of their abstracts.

 

 

(*) Some papers accepted by the Symposium will be included in a publication of the Proceedings of the Symposium.

 

Please forward your proposal for paper and completed submission form,

in electronic form , to :

Charlotte Fesneau, charlotte.fesneau@centrepompidou.fr