Martin Robinson: Arts and Assessment

[@jenniferhawkins3550]

I very much enjoyed this informative lecture. It argues for excellence in teaching the arts and gives practical reasons against the 'dumbing down' effect of objective fixed assessment and those simplistic explanations/assumptions forced upon us by pseudo-science, low quality commercialism and ignorance. Well-trained teachers are quite capable of researching, theorising frameworks and curricular programs and assessing this process with learners and colleagues. It is the nature of the great arts that proficient practitioners perform a great deal of self-assessment in action, which can be recorded as momentary data and analysed retrospectively by students and experienced specialist teachers and experts. "Arts and crafts speak to us using a range of methods and skills that stimulate levels of deep mental and physical awareness. They express complex, abstract ideas and feelings, engaging the emotions and stimulating learning whatever the individual’s ‘level’.The Arts model ‘possibility thinking’ (Craft, 2000) and risk taking -involving questioning and critical reflection." [Hawkins, J. A. (2017), Palgrave Macmillan: New York-@jenhawk6248-Twitter] This intellectual process involving the development of worded, 'unworded' thought, emotional engagement and behaviour is vital to a properly rounded education for all children.

[@joostvdenden]

is the transcript available? or did he perhaps write a text with a similar message? the audio is terrible

[@martinrobborobinson]

joostvdenden yes, the audio quality is dreadful I’m afraid, it does improve a bit but is never great

[@joostvdenden]

@@martinrobborobinson thank you for the update!