Ireland's Minister for Arts recently launched a new publication designed to assist teachers and artists in providing good arts education. Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, John O’Donoghue TD and the Minister for Education and Science, Mary Hanafin TD, have launched Artists~Schools Guidelines, a joint publication between the two ministries. The publication offers practical guidelines for artists and teachers, emphasising creativity in learning and the importance of respect for individual needs of the student. O’Donoghue said: “The benefits of incorporating arts into education are enormously significant... We should think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and benefit for our nation”. Hanafin said: "I welcome these Arts Council guidelines as the first formal mapping of the many exciting journeys that artists, teachers and pupils can make together”. For more information, CLICK HERE.