C. Feindler, Whitney Mayo, Ryan D. Shaw, F. R. Sabol, Lynn Tuttle, James Weaver
{"title":"Jumping into the virtual environment implications and possibilities for arts education","authors":"C. Feindler, Whitney Mayo, Ryan D. Shaw, F. R. Sabol, Lynn Tuttle, James Weaver","doi":"10.1080/10632913.2021.1931602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1931602","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract To start off this special issue on COVID-19 and K-12 arts education, this article places the impact of COVID-19 on public education into context, and drills down to how the pandemic affected the delivery of arts education. The article begins with an overview of the inequities revealed in our public education system by COVID-19. While many of these have been revealed and studied before, the pandemic brought them to the routine attention of the public in a way that earlier advocacy and research efforts have not. The article then addresses how these inequities have influenced the availability and quality of arts education offered during the pandemic, showcasing the continued “second class” status of arts education in public education planning and delivery. Finally, the article ends with some positive outcomes one year into the pandemic for arts education, suggesting possibilities for the future post pandemic, as well as implications and potential warning signs for the next 24 months to come.","PeriodicalId":37632,"journal":{"name":"Arts Education Policy Review","volume":"123 1","pages":"117 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10632913.2021.1931602","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48197988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music education and distance learning during COVID-19: a survey","authors":"Ryan D. Shaw, Whitney Mayo","doi":"10.1080/10632913.2021.1931597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1931597","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic moved American schools to a distance learning modality for the duration of the school year. In an effort to document, examine, and learn from the various “stages” of this pandemic, the purpose of this paper was to describe the spring 2020 move to distance learning and how the policies put in place affected music educators. We focus on describing district/school policies, teacher response, and stakeholder perceptions of success and associated challenges. The study employed a survey of a broad sample of music educators (N = 1,368), which featured questions on music education-related policies during the spring 2020 distance learning period. Findings suggested a variety of policies were in place governing instructional modality, frequency of instruction, and teacher-student contact. Disparities especially existed between elementary and secondary music educators, with elementary teachers discussing greater frustration at their relative prioritization within the distance learning setup. The findings have important implications for policymakers and music educators.","PeriodicalId":37632,"journal":{"name":"Arts Education Policy Review","volume":"123 1","pages":"143 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10632913.2021.1931597","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43240874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building the dance community virtually during COVID-19","authors":"Dale Schmid, Susan McGreevy-Nichols","doi":"10.1080/10632913.2021.1931598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1931598","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With the advent of the global pandemic wrought by COVID-19, much of the world’s citizenry was forced to immediately pivot to new ways of doing business. This included shifting instructional delivery systems around the globe to online platforms. In the US and elsewhere, the dance education community displayed remarkable resiliency and perhaps more importantly – an amazing affinity for communal problem solving. As the nation’s leading, nonprofit, membership organization dedicated to advancing dance education centered in the arts, the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), “Identifies and acts in constructive and strategic ways to positively shape public, social and education policy about and for dance in education…” Accordingly, NDEO played a major role as a convener of dance educators throughout the US to problem solve how to provide equitable access to quality opportunities for learning in dance, delivered in a responsibly socially distanced manner as dictated by the latest science. This article highlights salient aspects of the shared journey of the dance education community during the pandemic. What is chronicled here is a demonstration of ways in which dance education is better due to collective impact of a cross-section of the nations’ dance educators, acting as stewards of the art of dance.","PeriodicalId":37632,"journal":{"name":"Arts Education Policy Review","volume":"123 1","pages":"135 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10632913.2021.1931598","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41454104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arts education in a virtual learning environment: an introduction to the lessons, policies, budgets and practices from the COVID-19 era","authors":"Lynn Tuttle, D. Hansen","doi":"10.1080/10632913.2021.1931600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1931600","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This introductory article to this special issue, COVID-19 and its Impact on PreK-12 Arts Education, provides a brief overview of the articles included in the special issue. Each article is provided with a brief introduction and context setting.","PeriodicalId":37632,"journal":{"name":"Arts Education Policy Review","volume":"123 1","pages":"115 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10632913.2021.1931600","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46310333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David A. Dik, Rob Morrison, F. R. Sabol, Lynn Tuttle
{"title":"Looking beyond COVID-19: arts education policy implications and opportunities","authors":"David A. Dik, Rob Morrison, F. R. Sabol, Lynn Tuttle","doi":"10.1080/10632913.2021.1931603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1931603","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this concluding article for the special issue on COVID-19 and K-12 arts education, the authors look forward to some positive possible changes for the delivery of arts education as students return to school past COVID-19 and will address some of the barriers to these positive changes, including policy opportunities and implications. The barriers discussed are not new to arts education – resource and funding challenges, a focus on remediation pulling students from arts classes, and a continued inequitable access to arts education for students in poverty and students of color. The article will discuss how the pandemic has exacerbated some of these long-standing challenges, as well as ways to address those challenges from a policy perspective as well as through advocacy work at the federal, state, and local levels. The article suggests ways to rethink how we approach areas of educational policy, particularly the accountability structures of public education, in order to address inequitable access now and in the long term.","PeriodicalId":37632,"journal":{"name":"Arts Education Policy Review","volume":"123 1","pages":"160 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10632913.2021.1931603","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41690749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Art education during the COVID-19 pandemic: the journey across a changing landscape","authors":"F. R. Sabol","doi":"10.1080/10632913.2021.1931599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1931599","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The field of art education has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in complex ways. Art educators have been challenged with teaching visual arts skills, practices, and concepts, to students in virtual classrooms using non-conventional means. Their principal goal has been to provide quality education in the visual arts for all students. They recognize that having a visual arts education impacts the quality of life of everyone and their ability to understand and communicate in our complex world. In their efforts to provide meaningful and effective education, art educators have had to manage new instructional delivery systems and to ensure the health and safety and social emotional learning of their students and themselves in their educational spaces. They responded by using social media, video conferencing, and other digital technology to deliver instruction. The National Art Education Association provided a wealth of digital resources to support virtual instruction during this time. These resources enabled art educators to successfully address the educational needs of their students. The long-term impact of the pandemic will require research to understand the nature of the impact of the pandemic on education and how educational policy needs to be adjusted to reflect the new post-pandemic educational landscape","PeriodicalId":37632,"journal":{"name":"Arts Education Policy Review","volume":"123 1","pages":"127 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10632913.2021.1931599","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47733361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artifact-oriented learning: a theoretical review of the impact of the arts on learning","authors":"K. Peppler, Heidi J. Davis-Soylu, M. Dahn","doi":"10.1080/10632913.2021.1925609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1925609","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Traditional reviews of arts education have focused on why the arts are valuable for learning, but the arts’ contributions to cross-disciplinary discourse remain undertheorized. In this article, we provide a theoretical review of the arts and learning to suggest a new way of thinking about how the arts contribute to learning across disciplines through a focus on the production of artifacts. Guided by a sociocultural constructionist view on learning, this review brings together research from across the field of arts education to demonstrate the benefit of policies that support the production and engagement of shareable artifacts. Findings are synthesized through what we name an artifact-oriented learning model, which merges constructionism with ecological systems theory. Our review points to two key pathways of learning through the arts (i.e., making and engaging) and suggests the arts support learning that is multimodal and transactive across settings. Thus, we consider arts education policy as part of a sociocultural process that has rippling effects across disciplines for all layers of a social ecology. Given this orientation, implications for researchers and policymakers are discussed to support decision-making and continued inquiry across arts education research and policy.","PeriodicalId":37632,"journal":{"name":"Arts Education Policy Review","volume":"124 1","pages":"61 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10632913.2021.1925609","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45853770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hunter, M. A., Aprill, A., Hill, A., and Emery, S. 2018. Education, Arts and Sustainability: Emerging Practice for a Changing World","authors":"K. Khuda","doi":"10.1080/10632913.2021.1904074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1904074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37632,"journal":{"name":"Arts Education Policy Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10632913.2021.1904074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49517273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“I don’t want to be helpless”: learning policymaking with teachers","authors":"Eric Shieh","doi":"10.1080/10632913.2021.1900005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1900005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores the relationship between teachers and policymaking, and in particular a contradiction at its center: Teachers are needed to “people” policy, yet are conventionally named as its objects. As part of a two-year participatory study, fourteen teachers in three schools, including the author, sought to investigate policy problems and transform our relationships to policymaking in the context of our schools. Over the course of this work, we repeatedly confronted a sense of helplessness, originating not simply from the ways we were positioned in discourses of policymaking, but also from difficulties we faced locating ourselves in complex policy systems. At the same time, teachers contested these feelings of helplessness, and this article details the kinds of strategies we drew upon to persist in our policy investigations and call ourselves into new roles. At a time when arts policy researchers, in particular, are calling for greater work and analysis at the local level, this study—which includes the participation of two music teachers working alongside colleagues in their schools—offers implications for the ways arts teachers and researchers can build and support policymaking in our schools.","PeriodicalId":37632,"journal":{"name":"Arts Education Policy Review","volume":"124 1","pages":"13 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10632913.2021.1900005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44408575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Ward, Simon J. James, Katelyn E. James, Chris Brown, D. Kokotsaki, J. Wigham
{"title":"The benefits of music workshop participation for pupils’ wellbeing and social capital: the In2 music project evaluation","authors":"S. Ward, Simon J. James, Katelyn E. James, Chris Brown, D. Kokotsaki, J. Wigham","doi":"10.1080/10632913.2021.1903640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1903640","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper reports on the evaluation of the In2 music project in Darlington, England. The project ran for seven weeks from January – March 2020 and involved Year 6 pupils from four primary schools (n = 103) and Year 7 pupils from one secondary school (n = 90), working with Back Chat Brass, a professional brass ensemble. The aim of the In2 music project was to enable pupils to work with professional musicians to enjoy the benefits of group-based music, which include happiness and optimism. These emotions are strongly associated with social capital, which this study defines as the benefits that individuals and communities derive from positive interpersonal relationships. This evaluation asks if the In2 music project resulted in non-quantifiable changes that are associated with positive outcomes for pupil wellbeing and social capital. We explore our findings in relation to a policy climate of cuts to arts education, as shown by the stories in a special issue of Arts Education Policy Review. We argue that while political disregard threatens the development of social capital in economically deprived communities, funded interventions such as In2 can benefit some of the most vulnerable members of such communities.","PeriodicalId":37632,"journal":{"name":"Arts Education Policy Review","volume":"124 1","pages":"37 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10632913.2021.1903640","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45620826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}