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 childr...

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 yo...

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 c...

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 sk...

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 ove...

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 d...

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. W...

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 work...

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