Latest News The Cultural Learning Landscape summer 2020 Like the weather during the current climate emergency, extremes characterise the cultural learning landscape this summer. Covid-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement are washing away what we took for granted and throwing into greater relief the lack of social justice in Britain. This blog looks at the raft of different proposals and initiatives that are developing as a result of the changes.
26 June 2020 All that is solid melts into Zoom: five thoughts on cultural education in a Covid-shaped world Joe Hallgarten, Principal Consultant at the Education Development Trust and a member of the CLA Advisory Panel writes here in a personal capacity about how we can respond to a ‘pandemic of certainty’.
05 June 2020 Policy and Practice round-up June 2020 This month we bring you news of research from the Education Endowment Foundation showing the attainment gap could widen by 36% as a result of school closures; updated Department for Education guidance for school reopening and reopening dates from Scotland and Wales; Let’s Create packs from Arts Council England; Covid secure guidance being developed for arts and heritage learning spaces; a call for CLA members to contribute to ‘task and finish’ groups; and a survey on arts and heritage learning services and spaces.
20 May 2020 What is Covid-19 teaching us? Paul Reeve, CEO of Into Film, a film learning organisation working across all four UK nations and a member of the CLA Advisory Panel, responds to the question: What is Covid-19 teaching us we can do differently in arts and cultural education?
14 May 2020 Policy and Practice round-up May 2020 This month we bring you news that the Welsh Government has extended Creative Learning through the Arts; resources from the EEF and DfE to help education settings; recommendations from the EPI on preventing the disadvantage gap from increasing during and after the Covid-19 pandemic; and the Education select committee Inquiry into the impact of Covid-19 and interviews with the Ofsted Chief Inspector and Minister for Education.
