Evaluating the impact of arts and cultural education : a european and international research symposium, January 10-12, 2007 / on the intitiative of the French Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research and the French ministry of Culture and Communication, a conference organized by the Centre Pompidou

Opening session. Introduction: Presentation of the symposium : problematics, questions, issues at Stake / Emmanuel Fraisse ; Measuring the impact : research into arts and cultural education / Anne Bamford -- Session 1. Evaluation: questions of principle and method : Introduction ; Evaluating the impact of arts education : posing pertinent questions, employing suitable tools / Larry O’Farrell ; Contradictions and tension in the British creativity agenda : evaluating creative partnerships / David Parker, Julian Sefton-Green ; The cultural competency record : documenting competencies. Acquired through cultural education / Rolf Witte ; "Evaluating to understand, evaluating to improve" : an evaluation model for the MUS-E program / Carlos Peláez Paz ; Three lessons from Harvard Project Zero / Howard Gardner ; Summary -- Session 2. Impact and effects of arts and cultural education: Introduction ; Impacts for pupils and young people from the arts and education. Interface initiative / Pippa Lord ; Works of art are good things to think about / Shari Tishman, Patricia Palmer ; Enhancing critical thinking with art education / Nancy Lampert ; Third space : when learning matters / Richard J. Deasy ; Art in middle school : monographic inquiry into the effects of cultural and artistic practices / Véronique Chappuis, Alain Kerlan, Myriam Lemonchois ; Summary -- Session 3. Arts and cultural education : what objectives, what methods? Pedagogical approaches and education policy: Introduction ; Harvard Project Zero : the first forty years / Ellen Winner, Howard Gardner ; CARA Creativity Action Research Award projects 2004-2005 : a critical analysis / Dr. Catherine Burke, Pete McGuigan ; Creative learning and progression in the arts / Pamela Burnard ; Cultural development of the child through narrative learning / Pentti Hakkarainen, Milda Bredikyte ; Arts and cultural education in an international context : a look at some national and regional policies and their impact as reported in the literature / Madeleine Gauthier, Élisa Valentin ; Summary -- Session 4. Partnership between artists and teachers : structures and processes: Introduction ; Moving toward a culture of evidence : documentation and action research in the practice of arts partnerships / Gail Burnaford, Arnold Aprill ; An evaluation of the cultural hubs program / Sue Hayton, Fiona Forrest ; Many routes to meaning : children's language and literacy learning in creative arts projects / Kimberly Safford, Myra Barrs ; Extraordinary or inevitable? Evaluating the cultural rucksack (TCR) : a new arts and cultural program in primary and lower secondary schools in Norway / Jorunn Spord Borgen ; -Artists at school- The aesthetic experience at the heart of learning : evaluation of a scheme of artists in residence / Alain Kerlan, Roselyne Erutti ; Summary -- Session A. The effects of visual arts education: Introduction ; Standards for an evaluation of the effects of an artistic education / Pierre Gosselin ; The evaluation of transforming education. Through the arts challenge / Joy Frechtling, Sandra Rieder ; The contribution of cultural institutions to the training of art teachers : reflections on evaluation procedures employed / Rejane Coutinho ; Learning in the visual arts and the worldviews of young children : where self-efficacy and originality meet / James S. Catterall, Kylie A. Peppler ; Summary -- Session B. The effects of music education : cognitivist approaches: Introduction ; Music participation and academic scores : examination of the association between school music program participation and standardized test results / Christopher M. Johnson, Jenny E. Memmott ; An empirical investigation of the effects of music instruction on cognition / Frances H. Rauscher ; Learning music and cognitive modifiability / Adena Portowitz ; Are musicians more intelligent? How the human brain adapts to piano playing / Professeur Timo Krings ; Effects of music training on brain and cognitive development in underprivileged 3- to 5-year-old children : preliminary results / Helen Neville ; Summary -- Session C. The effects of music education : sociological approaches: Introduction ; Music activities and social inequality in academic achievement in the sixth grade / Marie-Céline Huguet ; The role of cultural and artistic activities in academic success : evaluation of the effects and sociological interpretation / Joél Zaffran ; The role of music in enhancing students'. Generic employability skills / Jennifer Bryce ; -Young people and opera- evaluating opera house initiatives aimed at young people : a comparison of France and the United Kingdom / Sylvie Saint-Cyr ; Summary -- Session D. The effects of dance, drama and theater education: Introduction ; The work of the National Theatre in Schools : changing patterns of arts evaluation in the United Kingdom / Helen Turner, Rachel Dickinson ; The meaning of practicing dance at school / Veronique Robin ; Summary -- Session E. The effects of Museum and Gallery Education: Introduction ; New perspectives on arts education, new forms of museum mediation : a reception study of pre-teenagers and teenagers making school visits to the Centre Pompidou / Jaqueline Eidelman, Séverine Dessajan, Jean-Pierre Cordier, Aurélie Peyrin ; The impact of participation in gallery education activities on schoolchildren's human, social and cultural capital / Andrew Newman, Chris Whitehead ; Arts education in urban centers : assessing processes and outcomes related to arts learning environments / Karen DeMoss ; Summary -- Closing sesson. Arts and cultural education as laboratory?: Introduction ; Beyond drumming and batik : an analysis of creative approaches to exploring community cohesion and diversity with children and young people / Patricia Cochrane ; Designing an in-school teaching artis training program / Lynn Waldorf ; Summary -- Closing summary: Introduction ; Main conclusions of the symposium ; Clossing address -- A concluding look forward -- Profiles of speakers and chairpersons