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UNESCO Seoul Agenda: Goals for the Development of Arts Education
The Seoul Agenda: Goals for the Development of Arts Education is a major outcome of UNESCO’s Second World Conference on Arts Education held in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, on 25 – 28 May 2010.
The Arts-Initial Advice Paper
Key stakeholders from all arts disciplines (dance, drama, media arts, music and visual arts) including classroom teachers, academics, artists and representatives from peak professional associations met at a national forum in Sydney on 3 May 2010, to provide feedback to the draft initial advice paper. Feedback from the forum will inform the development of the draft Shape paper for the arts. Newspapers are starting to report on The Arts in the National Curriculum as the release of the Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts, which will guide the writing of the curriculum for public consultation draws near. Keep checking the National Curriculum area of this website as Drama Australia will upload news as it is released by ACARA.
Drama and the National Curriculum
Recently a cross-section of educators in the Australian drama community were asked to respond to a set of five questions about the content and organizing structures of Drama in the national arts curriculum. . The unedited responses capture the diversity of voices that exist and can be viewed at the link below.
To view the responses click here to download pdf
National Conference Information
The next Drama Australia National Conference will be held in 2011 and hosted by DramaWest.
For more information please click here
National Conference Edition of NJ- call for papers
Following the successful 2009 Drama Australia Conference, contributions to a Conference focussed edition of NJ are now being invited. This will be a non-print CD-Rom edition of NJ and will include keynote presentations, papers from the conference and papers written in response to the themes of the conference. Click here for more information about contributing to this publication.
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