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The Teaching Artist Research Project
The success of the first-ever national teaching artist research project hinges on reaching teaching artists all over America.
The Teaching Artist Research Project (TARP) is the first national study to examine the world and work of teaching artists. Americans for the Arts is proud to partner with TARP to ensure its success.
TARP is currently building lists of teaching artists for its survey samples in its 12 study sites. If you are a teaching artist or if you manage a program that hires teaching artists, please register at the study website. And send this link to other teaching artists and program managers. TARP will contact registrants when the study goes live early this year.
Though teaching artists have played significant roles in our culture and educational systems for a century, they have never been more important. Significant new research has shown that arts education can:
• deepen learning and transform educational experiences and schools,
• build communities,
• contribute to the healthy development of children and youth, and
• build future audiences for the arts.
Teaching artists have often been instrumental in designing the programs that have these effects, and they are responsible for doing much of the work. Yet we know very little about them—their background, their aspirations, their needs, or their potential.
TARP will answer these questions through site studies in 12 diverse communities from Boston to Bakersfield, surveying artists and program managers to collect data. Surveys will be followed by in-depth, key-informant interviews in each study site. TARP hopes to provide fresh new ideas for sustaining and supporting the development of teaching artists and for maximizing their potential to contribute to making high quality arts education widely available.
TARP will be conducted by the major research center NORC at the University of Chicago. Its principal investigator is Nick Rabkin, a founder of the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, a contributor to Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning, and author of Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century. He is the former director of the Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago. TARP is supported by 25 foundations and state and local arts agencies.
Nick Rabkin
Teaching Artist Research Project
NORC at the University of Chicago
1155 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
773.256.6026
http://teachingartists.uchicago.edu
With questions, please contact Arts Education Manager John Abodeely at artseducation@artsusa.org or 202.371.2830.
The Teaching Artist Research Project (TARP) is the first national study to examine the world and work of teaching artists. Americans for the Arts is proud to partner with TARP to ensure its success.
TARP is currently building lists of teaching artists for its survey samples in its 12 study sites. If you are a teaching artist or if you manage a program that hires teaching artists, please register at the study website. And send this link to other teaching artists and program managers. TARP will contact registrants when the study goes live early this year.
Though teaching artists have played significant roles in our culture and educational systems for a century, they have never been more important. Significant new research has shown that arts education can:
• deepen learning and transform educational experiences and schools,
• build communities,
• contribute to the healthy development of children and youth, and
• build future audiences for the arts.
Teaching artists have often been instrumental in designing the programs that have these effects, and they are responsible for doing much of the work. Yet we know very little about them—their background, their aspirations, their needs, or their potential.
TARP will answer these questions through site studies in 12 diverse communities from Boston to Bakersfield, surveying artists and program managers to collect data. Surveys will be followed by in-depth, key-informant interviews in each study site. TARP hopes to provide fresh new ideas for sustaining and supporting the development of teaching artists and for maximizing their potential to contribute to making high quality arts education widely available.
TARP will be conducted by the major research center NORC at the University of Chicago. Its principal investigator is Nick Rabkin, a founder of the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, a contributor to Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning, and author of Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century. He is the former director of the Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago. TARP is supported by 25 foundations and state and local arts agencies.
Nick Rabkin
Teaching Artist Research Project
NORC at the University of Chicago
1155 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
773.256.6026
http://teachingartists.uchicago.edu
With questions, please contact Arts Education Manager John Abodeely at artseducation@artsusa.org or 202.371.2830.
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