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Keeping Your Curriculum Broad and Balanced: Celebrating the Arts and Humanities in Primary Schools
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Taking place at Library, this conference from the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy will explore the vital role of art, music, drama, history, and geography in children’s learning. The arts and humanities subjects can make a special contribution to nurturing creativity, curiosity, empathy, and critical thinking, and to helping children make sense of life.Through practical examples, research insights, and hands-on workshops, speakers will share cutting edge research and strategies for classroom practice. The conference will show the ways that the arts and humanities can and should be balanced with the other subjects of the curriculum, including English and maths.Their aim is for teachers, school leaders, researchers, arts practitioners, and policymakers to feel inspired and connected, and to create new futures for primary education.The stellar line-up of speakers includes:Lauren Child – children’s author and illustrator; winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and former UK Children’s LaureateUsha Goswami – Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience, University of Cambridge; Yidan Prize winnerChris Haughton – children’s author, illustrator and designerPete Moorhouse – educational creative consultant and artistTara Page – artist, researcher and Professor of Pedagogy, Goldsmiths, University of London
Where to see it
96 Euston Road
Thu 19 Nov
09:30
Taking place at Library, this conference from the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy will explore the vital role of art, music, drama, history, and geography in children’s learning. The arts and humanities subjects can make a special contribution to nurturing creativity, curiosity, empathy, and critical thinking, and to helping children make sense of life.Through practical examples, research insights, and hands-on workshops, speakers will share cutting edge research and strategies for classroom practice. The conference will show the ways that the arts and humanities can and should be balanced with the other subjects of the curriculum, including English and maths.Their aim is for teachers, school leaders, researchers, arts practitioners, and policymakers to feel inspired and connected, and to create new futures for primary education.The stellar line-up of speakers includes:Lauren Child – children’s author and illustrator; winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and former UK Children’s LaureateUsha Goswami – Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience, University of Cambridge; Yidan Prize winnerChris Haughton – children’s author, illustrator and designerPete Moorhouse – educational creative consultant and artistTara Page – artist, researcher and Professor of Pedagogy, Goldsmiths, University of London
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