Africa Cluster's contents tagged with "Curriculum Development"

Fulbright Specialist Recommends that Learning Units created by the Kampala Working Group are used as Templates for Art School Curricula (August 2019)

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 10:06:42 +0000

The US-based artist and art educator Sherry Erskine spent a semester in residence at the Nagenda International Academy of Art in Design (NIAAD), home of the Kampala Working Group. While she was at NIAAD, Sherry, who is a Fulbright Specialist in World Learning, both observed teaching and reviewed curricula.

In the report that she submitted at the end of her residency, Sherry recommended to NIAAD Senior Management that the academy adopt the teaching and learning formats developed through practice-based research by the Kampala Working Group within the context of the Intertwining Hi/Stories research as a template for all diploma and certificate course modules!

Another Roadmap Africa Cluster (ARAC) participation in the #Im4thearts Capacity Building Winter School (22-24 June 2020)

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:32:11 +0000

Formed in January 2020, #Im4theArts is an artist-led movement for the rights of all workers in the South African arts sector with 18,000 Facebook and 800 formally registered members that are working for accountability and economic sustainability in the creative sector. The #Im4theArts Winter School was a response to members’ needs for capacity-building. As part of the Winer School, ARAC members Christian Nyampeta (Nyanza Working Group) and David Andrew (Johannesburg Working Group) participated in the first of three online Zoom sessions on the State of Arts Education in South Africa.

Speaking first, David Andrew offered an account of the process that resulted in the UNESCO Road Map for Arts Education. He did this with reference to the aims of the document presented at the World Conference on Arts Education in Lisbon, 2006, and the subsequent world conference whose findings are recorded in ‘The Seoul Agenda: Goals for the Development of Arts Education’ (2010). David ended his presentation with a discussion of Michael Wimmer’s blog piece titled From “The Seoul-Agenda” to “Another Road-Map for Arts Education” (March 2018) in which he acknowledges the deep-set problematics of the UNESCO processes and identifies the work of ARAC as constructively addressing these concerns.

Christian Nyampeta then went on to sketch the history and genesis of the history of the Another Roadmap School and the Africa Cluster in particular, spotlighting our efforts to supplement and critique the UNESCO processes, emphasising our focus on the histories of art/s education and our commitment to producing and sharing knowledge in forms that can be used meaningfully in African teaching and learning environments.

Contributions from the Johannesburg and Kinshasa Working Groups published in Artl@s Bulletin 7, no. 1 (2018)

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 09:53:45 +0000

Essays by David Andrew (Johannesburg Working Group) and Cedrick Nzolo (Kinshasa Working Group) have been published in a special issue of Artl@s Bulletin, “Mediating Past, Present and Future of D.R.Congo’s Historical Narratives on Art in a Global South Dialogue”

This special issue aims to bring to readers some of the main themes, discussions, research topics, dialogues and exchanges that were central to the symposium “Mediating Past, Present and Future: Historical Narratives and 20th/ 21st Century Art – Dialogues with Global South Experiences”, which took place at the Académie des Beaux Arts in Kinshasa 18 - 21 January 2016 – as reported by Sari Middernacht (Lububmashi Working Group) for Contemporary And (C&).

Cedrick’s essay, ‘Think natural! Une nécessité qui ne se cache plus’ and David’s essay, ‘Notes from Johannesburg - Dialogues and Itineraries of the South from Kinshasa: Art, History, and Education can be accessed here: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/vol7/iss1/1/