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Third Space:When Learning MattersRichard J. DeasyArts Education Partnershipwww.aep-arts.org

Arts Education PartnershipFounded and financed by the U.S. Department ofEducation and the National Endowment of the Arts incooperation with the Council of Chief State SchoolOfficers and the National Assembly of State ArtsAgencies.Coalition of more than 100 national education, arts,business and philanthropic organizationsDemonstrates through research and best practices therole of the arts in improving schools and studentachievement.

Arts Education PartnershipResearch PublicationsGaining the ArtsAdvantage:Lessons fromSchool Districtsthat Value ArtsEducation (1999)Champions ofChange: TheImpact of theArts on StudentLearning (2000)Young Childrenand the Arts:Making CreativeConnections(1998)Critical Links:Learning in theArts andStudentAcademic andSocialDevelopment(2002)

Cognitive Capacities and PersonalDispositions Engaged in Arts Learning Findings from two collections:Champions of Change: The Impact ofthe Arts on Learning-7 studiesCritical Links: Learning in the Arts andStudent Academic and SocialDevelopment-62 studies

Capacities and Dispositionso Symbolic Understanding:• Understanding and communicating inmultiple modes of representation, text,image, sound, motiono Imagination:• Visualizing new possibilities for thought andaction

Capacities and Dispositionso Persistence:• Sustaining concentrated attentiono Resilience:• Managing challenges; overcoming failure andfrustrationo Engagement/Motivation to Achieve:• Driven by the goal of self-fulfillment

Capacities and DispositionsoEmpathyoToleranceoCommitment to collective purpose andaction

Important Indication The arts benefit all students but canbe of particular benefit to strugglinglearners and those economicallydisadvantaged

Third Space: When Learning Matters How do the artscontribute to theimprovement of schoolsthat serve economicallydisadvantagedcommunities? Comparative analysis of10 “high poverty”schools

The Schools Recognized by national, state orlocal processes for their highperformance Attribute their success to the arts At least 50% of students eligible forfree or reduced-price lunch

What arts? Classes in the art forms – dance, music,etc. “Integrated arts” where the learningexperience includes the content andprocesses of an art form and the contentand processes of another subject ordiscipline – literacy, math, science, socialstudies Partnerships with artists and communityarts organizations

How and Why: Third Space Entering a space where new sets ofrelationships emerge in creating,performing, or responding to worksof art New manifestations of capacitiesand identities that counterstereotypes

Within the Third Spaces New perceptions andunderstandings of students Affirmation of students lives,knowledge, abilities – by teachersand peers Communities of learners develop:teachers, students, artists Learning environment and schoolclimate is positively altered

When Learning Matters The arts link school and “livedworlds” of students It’s about their development andnot school demands Become “motivated agents of theirown learning”

Teacher attitude key Seeing and honoring the studentwork as an act of communication ofpersonal meaning Challenging/supporting students tomaster technique as essential to fullself expression

Adaptive expertise Swartz, Bransford & Sears (2005)FrustratedNovice?AdaptiveExpertInnovationNoviceRoutineExpertEfficiency

Adaptive expertise Swartz, Bransford & Sears (2005)FrustratedNovice?AdaptiveExpertInnovationLearningthat MattersMotivationNoviceRoutineExpertEfficiency

Third Space and Community Communities, not cliques, in theseschools Inclusive of diversity Collaborative activity for a publicact of performance – a service –toothers Creating democracies within schooland external communities

Impact on the school “Third Space suggests an alternativevision of both the process and result ofschool reform. It points to reform thatoccurs as a natural transformationthrough the building of a new communityof learners, a community of creators.”Steve Seidel, Director of Project Zero and theArts Education Program at Harvard