- December 8th, 2010
Global Citizenship and visual arts
- nickmorgan
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In 2010 Learning and Teaching Scotland funded some work in six Scottish local authorities to enable teachers to explore a Global Citizenship theme with pupils through a visual arts medium. Each of these small-scale pilot projects picked a theme and an art form to work with, and then teachers and students worked together to create artworks - usually with a local Scottish artist to lend their expertise. The process was important, as students learnt more about their chosen theme during the creative process, and the end products were often really impressive. LTS has been able to display some of the finished works at the Scottish Learning Festival and at national conferences during November, and we intend to make further use of these assets in 2011.
An article in TESS, titled “In a land far, far away“, describes the experience of Port William primary school in Dumfries and Galloway. Their project focused on traditional tales and pupils produced a variety of work based on tales from many countries. The participants then travelled up to Glasgow for the Scottish Learning Festival, to see their work on display in the Gallery space and meet the Cabinet Secretary.
The image used here is of one of the banners produced by Borestone primary school in Stirling.
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