Working collaboratively across the globe to consider arts education imperatives: New directions for sustainability

Abstract

Arts Education scholars at the Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne are partners of the global UNITWIN/UNESCO program, a think tank established to promote international research in arts education for diversity and sustainable development. This program includes twelve partner institutions across the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. Working collaboratively with other members of UNITWIN/UNESCO to capitalize on the group’s existing research, we have identified four imperatives across our most recent research that will shape and propel arts education during the foreseeable uncertain times: • Decolonization • Cultural resilience • Inclusion, agency, and wellbeing •..