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Art and Culture Give Children a Life that Works A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR PEDAGOGUES, ARTISTS AND CULTURAL MEDIATORS Photo: copenhagenmediacenter .com CONTENTS PREFACE BY MARIANNE JELVED, MINISTER FOR CULTURE . 3 SUMMARY . 4 1 CHILDREN’S RELATION TO ART AND CULTURE . 6 2 WHY DO ART AND CULTURE REINFORCE THE CHILDREN'S DEMOCRATIC DISPOSITION? . 27 3 COMPETENT ADULTS FOSTER COMPETENT CHILDREN . 54 4 ARTISTIC FORMS OF EXPRESSION AND DIGITAL MEDIA . 85 5 CREATIVE CHILDREN ARE A SOCIAL INVESTMENT . 125 6 CHILDREN'S CULTURE IN SCANDINAVIA: WHY IS IT SO SPECIAL? . 159 7 IT IS HAPPENING OUT THERE – PARTNERSHIP IN PRACTICE . 206 EPILOGUE BY MARIANNE JELVED, MINISTER FOR CULTURE . 238 Art and Culture Give Children Editorial team: Cover photo: Copyright: Art and Culture Give Children a Life that Works a Life that Works Consultant Merete Dael Henning Hjorth The Danish Agency for Consultant Anne-Kristine Mortensen Culture (Kulturstyrelsen) In the summer and autumn of 2013, Art and Journalist Monica C . Madsen Illustrations: Copenhagen, May 2014 Issued by: Carl Quist Møller Culture Give Children a Life that Works was The Danish Agency for Culture All interviews have been conducted by Art and Culture Give (Kulturstyrelsen) Monica C . Madsen Children's quotes: Children a Life that Works published online in seven different chapters . This H .C . Andersens Boulevard 2 Children from the Copenhagen can be freely quoted but edition combines the seven original chapters into 1553 Copenhagen V Graphic layout and production: Children’s School of Art acknowledgement of the Tel .: 33 73 33 73 Adman Kommunikation Aps in Tvillingehallen . source must be included . one . post@kulturstyrelsen .dk www .kulturstyrelsen .dk Enjoy! Art and Culture 2Give Children a Life that Works Let the good examples thrive through new communities, stories and forms of expression! It is my great ambition to create a solid basis for pro- Preface by moting culture for children in their everyday lives . We must enhance the opportunities for inviting art- Marianne Jelved, ists and cultural institutions to cooperate with day care centres and schools . We, the adults, must cre- Minister for Culture ate the room and the setting – in the municipality and at each institution or school – so that all children have equal access to art and culture, and encounter I have always had children's welfare at heart . That all forms of art at a high professional level . children, regardless of their background and educa- tion, are given access to education and learning is This goal will be reflected in the government initia- one of the most important tasks of our society . tive for a Danish public school reform . An important element in the reform initiative is to strengthen My exploits as a public school teacher have taught the practical/musical subjects in our Danish public me how important it is to be able to feel surprise to- schools, and, last but not least, to see the partner- gether with the children – to re-discover and expand ship between Danish public schools and cultural their view of the world together . Here, art and culture life, including museums, libraries, theatres, music play a big role in a child’s personal development and schools, culture schools etc ., advance even more . hensive and printer-friendly overview of the mate- general education . It is important for children to gain You now have an inspiring publication, which is one rial . As the autumn holidays are approaching, there access to quality art in many different contexts and, of the tools that can give pedagogues, teachers, art- will be seven independent chapters full of informa- at the same time, to have the opportunity to put their ists and cultural mediators knowledge about the tion, inspiration and approaches to art and culture own abilities to produce art to the test . Through crea- many opportunities art and culture have in store . for small and big children alike . tive and playful processes, they see the world with new eyes and acquire new knowledge and new skills . This publication is exclusively online-based . In each It is my hope that the publication will contribute to Maybe, they become more daring and think more chapter you can read articles and interviews of and getting more art and culture into the children's eve- freely, which is a cornerstone towards becoming a by Danish and foreign experts, politicians and art- ryday lives, and that new creative partnerships will citizen in a well-functioning democracy . We carry the ists . You will also find good examples from everyday be given a try . cultural experiences we get as children along with us life, as well as several links and references . for the rest of our lives . This is why the children’s rela- Each chapter was issued separately over the sum- Let the good examples thrive through new commu- tions with art and culture are so important . mer of 2013, as a serial, thus allowing for a compre- nities, stories and forms of expression! Art and Culture 3Give Children a Life that Works Art and Culture Give Children a Life that Works Teachers and pedagogues have a special responsibil- ity to make sure that all children have an opportunity The publication's seven chapters focus on: to come into close contact with art and culture every day . At a fundamental level, cultural and practical ex- periences shape us as human beings, strengthen our How we create an optimal frame- ability to learn, and cultivate us as democratic citizens . work for children to encounter art 1 and culture in their everyday lives. The Danish Agency for Culture's new publication, Children Art Culture - in an Everyday That Works , "Art helps make sure we become whole human provides a wealth of inspiration for how teachers, beings," observes Rune Gade, chairperson for the pedagogues, and cultural mediators can best tackle Danish Arts Council 2011-13 . "Art is also con- this job . The book also contains many examples of nected in a fundamental way with a human being's Why art and culture should be an specific activities, links, and bibliographic references . inherent desire to play . Children must have an integrated part of day-care insti- opportunity to come into close contact with high- tutions and all subjects taught in "It is important for children to gain access to quality art quality art, so they absorb into their bones a sense 3 general-education schools - and in many different contexts and, at the same time, to of the special potential in the artistic process," he should be conceived more broadly have the opportunity to test to put their own abilities emphasises . in teacher education programmes. to produce art to the test . Through creative and playful processes, they look at the world with new eyes and "Not only children but teachers and pedagogues will gain new knowledge and new skills," maintains Dan- Why children's relation with art also benefit from this because their work in education ish Minister for Culture Marianne Jelved (Danish So- and culture strengthen will be more successful," observes Bennyé Duranc cial Liberal Party) in the publication's preface . 2 democracy. Austring, who is project leader at University College Zealand's research and innovation department: This point is shared consistently by 60 (Danish and A childhood that is rich in artistic and cultural activi- non-Danish) experts, practitioners, and artists and ties is an important key to making sure that children "The skills children learn through practical activities six Danish government ministers in their articles have the best foundation for developing personal at- are crucial for their development because all other about attitudes, research results, and practical expe- titudes and values and participating as competent learning is based upon them - in particular, the very riences . Each of the publication's seven chapters has citizens in a democratic community . Therefore, as desire to learn something new . At the same time, its own focus and an ocean of good arguments for pri- researchers point out, schools and day-care institu- artistic activities enhance children's well-being and oritising art and culture to children . tions have a special responsibility to make sure that the joy they take in being at their school or day-care all children have this opportunity . every day .” Art and Culture 4 Give Children a Life that Works How we can ensure What particular potential Nordic children's digital skills. children's culture contains, and how "Art and culture are not leisure-time en- it can be integrated into everyday tertainment activities or vapid decoration . 4 6 activities in practice. "Children today are digital natives, but not digital They are worldviews and language that geniuses," says Stine Liv Johansen, Ph .D ., assis- "Naturally, Nordic countries will collaborate to de- make us wiser as people, provide us with tant professor at the Department of Aesthetics and velop cultural opportunities in kindergartens and Communication at Aarhus University . "That is why schools because we have a common Nordic view of forms of expression through which we can it is important that teachers and pedagogues guide children, education, culture, and democracy," says live our lives, and help us to navigate on an children to become conscious of themselves as me- Danish Minister for Education Christine Antorini dia consumers and develop skills that allow them (Danish Social Democratic Party): existential plane, so we have a better and to relate reflectively, critically, and selectively to the richer life," observes author Knud Romer in boundless opportunities of the virtual world . " "The Nordic view of children's culture is unique be- cause it is based on the idea that everyone - regard- the new publication of the Danish Agency less of background - is to have an equal chance and for Culture, Children Art Culture - in an Why an everyday interaction with an equal opportunity to develop within the framework art and culture in school or day-care of the community .

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