Community Arts Education in Transition

What is the role of the arts in the community?  Through this stimulating module, you’ll explore recent developments in the field of Community Arts – as well as discovering how to critically evaluate the involvement of communities in arts events and performance.  To help you understand the diversity of this area, you’ll study everything from Pop Idol to theatre targeted at primary school pupils by the National Theatre!

What does the module cover?

Engage with the debate on the social, historical and political context, and the competing demands, and needs, associated with Community Arts work. Evaluate policies currently in use and relate these to theoretical issues. Analyse the key concepts underpinning Community Arts and Community Arts Education, and evaluate and present a chosen aspect of Community Art work to other students. Analyse how a local community group use the key concepts explored in this module, and develop their engagement with a community, through using individual creative interests and evaluation of that work

More Information

Module Code:

ED3023

Key topics

• The role of television as a major community art form
• The impact on national culture of reality art (e.g. Pop Idol, Big Brother, Faking It)
• Commerce and Community Arts Education (Deutshbank)
• The role of funding and the Arts Council
• The work of the National Theatre, Art of Regeneration and Interact
• Discover and the development of Community Arts
• Youth Theatre
• Britishness and Shakespeare’s Globe and Community Events, St. George’s Day and the literary walk
• Localised community art in response to international events
• Evaluating the added value of community Arts work
• The designing of a community arts project and working on the outcome with a community group

Pre-requisites

None

Number of credits & study time

20 credits / 200 hours

Assessment

The summative assessment for this module is in two parts:

Portfolio
This will include a critique of a community arts experience, plus an analytical critique of the relevance and the effect of one community arts event set within the context of the texts explored in the module and wider research (3,000-3,500 words)

Power Point Presentation of a Community Arts Education Project Plan:
You’ll be required to develop a community arts education project plan, present this to a group and respond to the group’s comments (Maximum 12 slides)