The Arts in Schools - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

cultures and of seeing this process as dialectical. We haveillustrated this relationship between participation and appreciationwith a number of examples. We then consideredthe ways in which the arts can be involved in the necessaryattempts by schools to take account of their own culturalsettings and elaborated this by looking at the valuable role oflocal arts festivals. The uses of the arts as ways of approachinga variety of work in cultural studies across the curriculumwere highlighted and we concluded by arguing that childrencan thus be enabled both to use the processes of the arts fortheir own ends and to produce works of art in their ownright. In the next two chapters we look at what provisionis required for this in schools.47