Towards a Paradigm of Creative Education for the 21st Century, World Alliance for Arts Education

In preparation of the Second UNESCO World Conference for Arts Education in March 2010 the World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE) is organising a summit entitled “Towards a Paradigm of Creative Education for the 21st Century”. WAAE is a consortium consisting of the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association (IDEA) , The International Society of Music Education (ISME) , The International Society for Education through Art (INSEA ) and World Dance Alliance (WDA).

Guiding aims of the meeting are
• to prepare the WAAE’s strategic proposals for the 2010 UNESCO World Conference in Arts Education and•to develop the relationship between creative pedagogies and the cultivation of knowledge-based societies that nurture sustainable development, global solidarity, cooperation and human rights through strategic partnerships between the WAAE, industry, civil society and government representatives.

These guiding aims are focussed through five specific objectives:

• to produce a Joint Declaration which responds to the diversity of challenges in implementing creative pedagogies of transformation and to the recommendations of the 2006 UNESCO Road Map for Arts Education;
• to advance the integration of New Media, Literature and Craft in Education into the WAAE’s Research, Networking and Advocacy strategic projects and preparation for the 2010 UNESCO World Conference;
• to develop an integrated five year plan of action for the WAAE’s Research, Networking and Advocacy strategic projects in partnership with innovators from the arts, sciences, education, industry and policy-making;
• to develop a resourced WAAE Secretariat through appropriate partnerships and to continue to develop the WAAE’s Summit methodology to ensure the celebration and productive exchange of its participants’ knowledges and creative intelligences.