Andrew's Blog | arts-music-dance-org

Selected essays and articles from Andrew's work in the Arts and Arts Education

A Question of Gender.

Recent public events have led me to reflect on the nature of gender and gender identification. In my peer group, which includes my...

A Musical Journey

The Dancer - Music From Without to Within. As a dancer one develops a relationship with music that is receptive and responsive. It seems...

The Musings of a Street Performer.

The Best Things In Life Are Free. I am sure you were being ironic little Beatles when you said, “The best things in life are free, but...

A Story From My School

Cat's Home I love teaching music. Ten or so years ago I had a student in my Celtic Whistle class who was distressed because her beloved...

Creativity and Individuality in Education through Arts Practice (Breaking the Mould)

I recently read a school prospectus in which the school "acknowledges its responsibility to the needs of the nation by providing those...

Challenging Kids - Magic Kids

I love the term "Challenging Behaviour". How do we respond to unruly, disruptive, rude, disrespectful or otherwise difficult behaviour?...

The Act of Creation.

The following ideas include a summary of those introduced in the opening chapter of a book called Creative and Mental Growth, written...

The Discovery Learner in a Body of Knowledge World.

When I was about thirteen my father idly commented that the lock on the outside door of his treatment room was broken. Without asking I...

Creativity and Associative Thinking In Relation to the Disconnected Learner.

Set Theory, as it was taught to me in the sixties at university has given me a great model for understanding my own thinking processes....

The Role of the Arts in Restoring and Renewing Culture.

A paper prepared for the Drama Teachers Conference 18th June 2005. All over Australia there are indigenous and non-indigenous people...

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