Kadenze’s Learning Vaccine for tough times: Protecting our creative futures
Photo by Edwin HOOPER on Unsplash One year on and the pandemic remains. Along with the many signs of distress we see around us, we note the ravages of COVID-19 on our creative colleagues world-wide....
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Art is too important not to share Romero Britto, Brazilian painter and sculptor. Photo by Peter F on Unsplash When it comes to art and education, especially online education, there is one element of...
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By Brad Haseman, Executive Vice President, Kadenze, Inc. Brad is the lead teacher and coordinator of a Kadenze team of teachers and researchers designing and delivering the Professional Development...
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Photo by Yaopey Yong on Unsplash By Brad Haseman, Executive Vice President, Kadenze, Inc. & Professor Emeritus, QUTThis blog post was first published by the National Advocates for Arts Education...
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kadenze.com EXTENDS ITS COURSE OFFERINGS FOR COMPOSERS, MUSICIANS AND MUSIC LOVERS We’re excited to announce the launch of three new Micro-courses in Music: Computer-Assisted Music in Python,...
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Empowering students with digital tools and project-based learning
Kadenze is pleased to launch a new course – Introduction to Psychology – and welcomes a new partner – Wesleyan University – to our online creative education platform. Psychology courses typically use...
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Kadenze ACADEMY and the ‘New Normal’ for Education
For a while it seemed education would be flying high in 2022. With fragile optimism some were beginning to talk about ‘post-pandemic education’. Remote learning was on the decline and schooling was...
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Kadenze ACADEMY : Modes of Delivery and the ‘new normal’
As educators approach the new normal they know has to come, it is important to identify the salient features of the model of Western education Plato invented all those years ago: a small group of...
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Students as Partners in Education’s ‘New Normal’: Part 1
Typically, Online Learning Management Systems sequence activities in linear ways; a first activity is inevitably followed in-step by the next activity. For teachers of creative disciplines this is a...
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Generous partnering in Education’s ‘New Normal’: Part 2
Even as he said it, Austin Kleon acknowledged it may be a little extreme: “If your work isn’t online it doesn’t exist”. This has become a 21st century truism for creatives, especially emerging artists...
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This UNESCO International Arts Education Week: ‘Give Peace a Chance’
PEACE is the refreshing theme of UNESCO International Arts Education Week for 2022. Entirely appropriately, seeking peace from turmoil cries out to us, from the turmoil of open warfare and pandemics,...
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This UNESCO International Arts Education Week: ‘Give Policy a Chance’
Donald Rumsfeld’s famous quip that “Sausage making and policy-making shouldn’t be seen close-up.” is certainly true when it comes to arts education policy. Everyone has good intentions, globally there...
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Education’s new normal and peer engagement
Once peer engagement was treated as an afterthought. Teachers possessed the knowledge and skills and the teaching task was to transmit them to the students. Back then it was the innovative teacher...
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The emotional lives of learners as partners and peers
This series of posts around education’s new normal inevitably feature posts on peer engagement, learners as partners and the importance of deliberately casting learners in co-roles; co-learners,...
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Managing multiple ways of knowing in Education’s ‘NEW NORMAL’
A number of readers of this blog applauded the recent references to The Intelligence of Feeling, a commanding work on affective learning by Robert W. Witkin. Witkin playfully dedicates his book to Dr...
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THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ‘VARIOUSLY MEANINGFUL’ IN EDUCATION’S NEW NORMAL
It will be essential in Education’s ‘new normal’ that the curriculum of the future cannot be built around a single, totalizing knowledge system. Indigenous knowledge systems need to find their place,...
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Life-long playing in Education’s New Normal
Our two most recent blog posts have argued that the emerging ‘new normal’ for education must incorporate a diverse range of knowledge systems, especially the aesthetic dimension which informs all...
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PEOPLE-CENTERED EVALUATION & LEARNER-CENTERED ASSESSMENT IN THE ARTS
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a great deal about our societies, our collective wellbeing, and how urgent the choices we make now are for our futures. There has been a great deal of discussion –...
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CREATIVE RESILIENCE: TODAY’S HIGH DEMAND SKILL SET
Kadenze is proud to launch a new course – Creative Resilience: How to flourish in the face of life’s challenges. In this post the author, Linda Naiman, introduces herself and outlines the science of...
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TOWARDS A PEDAGOGY OF CREATIVITY
By Michael Anderson, Professor of Arts and Creativity Education, The University of Sydney, Australia and Co-Founder of 4C Transformative Learning. As I look over the posts in this Kadenze series on...
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