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The Connected Arts Learning Framework: An Expanded View of the Purposes and Possibilities for Arts Learning

A report from the Wallace Foundation offers a framework for connected arts learning—how arts education can help children build connections with their culture, identity, home lives, communities, professional artists, and future aspirations. The report [by Maggie Dahn, Mizuko Ito and Kylie Peppler], The Connected Arts Learning Framework: An Expanded View of the Purposes and Possibilities for Arts Learning (33 pages, PDF), outlines five approaches—Culturally Sustaining Arts, Future Forward Arts, Networked Arts, Doing Well by Doing Art, and Youth Voice Arts—with a case study for each approach.

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