Engaging with difference: using the arts and the community to help children connect with others

Title: Engaging with difference: using the arts and the community to help children connect with others
Creator: Reynolds, Ruth; Lane, Sue
Relation: Curriculum Matters Vol. 6, p. 120-141
Relation: http://www.nzcer.org.nz/nzcerpress/curriculum-matters/articles/engaging-difference-using-arts-and-community-help-children-co
Publisher: NZCER Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: In an attempt to develop tolerance and acceptance of other cultural groups, teacher educators from the University of Newcastle worked with members of the local African community to develop creative arts programme for young school children. The process of engaging with the African cultures, the school teachers and students, and different aspects of the creative arts led us in directions, through an action research cycle, that we could not have anticipated. We moved from a position of teaching about others, with our own ideas of what would best build bridges between Australian and African communities, to teaching with others. As a result, we, and the students, began actually engaging with members of the region's African community (from Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mali, Sudan and Rwanda).
Subject: cultural tolerance; creative arts education; primary school students; African migrant communities; African culture
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/931792
Identifier: uon:11167
Identifier: ISSN:1177-1828
Language: eng
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