NCCA - A Literature Review to Support Curriculum Specification Development for the Area of Arts Education

A Literature Review to Support Curriculum Specification Development for the Area of Arts Education

Project Description

Providing a broad experience in the arts is integral throughout a child’s experience in primary school. The arts give expression and extend children’s understanding, their imagination, and their creativity through a broad range of experiences. Such experiences have the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all children, exciting the imagination and encouraging them to reach their creative and expressive potential. Broad ranging experiences in the arts including visual arts, music, drama, dance, film and digital media play a valuable role in children’s experience of childhood and help them to participate fully in their community and in society. The Draft Primary Curriculum Framework recognises that while disciplines within Arts Education have a common creative process and share transferable skills, each has its own knowledge, concepts, skills and intrinsic value. (NCCA, 2020, p. 13). This project will deliver a comprehensive literature review to support the NCCA in the development of a curriculum specification for the curriculum area of Arts Education.

Research Team

Prof Carmel O’Sullivan (PI) (TCD)

Dr Elaine Clotworthy (PI) (MIE)

Dr Mary Nugent (MIE)

Dr Susanne Colleary (TCD)

Dr Eileen Keane Niland (MIE)

Dr Edmond Gubbins (MIE)

Dr Marita Kerin (TCD)

Outputs

In editing process

Funder  

NCCA €35,000

Dates  

2022-2023