Education and the arts joint implementation
The Cultural Ministers Council agreed to establish a joint implementation working group with the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) to progress and develop initiatives arising from the National Education and the Arts Statement which the two ministerial councils released jointly in September 2007.
Following the December 2008 Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians and a proposal from Cultural Ministers Council, Education Ministers agreed unanimously to the inclusion of the arts on the National Curriculum at the 17 April 2009 MCEETYA meeting in Adelaide.
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) will develop the National Curriculum in line with the principles of the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians, which identifies the arts (performing and visual) as one of the learning areas to be incorporated into the curriculum with breadth, balance and depth of learning appropriate to students’ phases of development.
The working group will:
- support the development and implementation of a national curriculum for the arts;
- ensure complementary work across the arts and education sectors;
- compile information on existing curriculum and arts education activities; and
- provide arts and education advice to Ministers.
The working group is chaired by the Australian Government. Its other members are arts and education representatives from the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA), Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), the Australia Council, and each state and territory government.
Contact
Mr Mark Taylor
Assistant Secretary, Arts Development and Training
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
GPO Box 787
CANBERRA ACT 2601
Tel: +61 2 6275 9575
Fax: +61 2 6275 9659
Email: mark.taylor@environment.gov.au