Arts Partnerships Are Bridging Disparities

2017 ◽  
pp. 114-126
Author(s):  
Jennifer DiFiglia
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Opportunity Gap ◽  
Disadvantaged Youth ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Industry Partnerships ◽  
The Future ◽  
Arts Partnerships ◽  
Tools And Techniques

Government, non-profit and industry partnerships are giving disadvantaged youth access to successful careers in the Arts. Although the trend has been toward an ever growing “opportunity gap” between children from low socio-economic communities and their wealthier peers, cross-sector arts education partnerships are bridging disparities in access to the creative professions. Currently, the lack of opportunity for young people from poverty disproportionately affects their career prospects in the Arts, where consistent exposure to the tools and techniques of the creative disciplines is necessary in order to guide students toward college and/or careers in these growing fields. Despite a burgeoning creative economy, remarkably little progress has been made to diversify the workforce in this sector. Collectively, we've underestimated how creating opportunities for young people is economically valuable to government, non-profit and industry. A fundamentally different framework is needed that puts a proper valuation on the future of our youth.

The behaviour of the researcher of the future (the ‘Google generation’)

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nicholas
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
University College London ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Digital Footprints

This paper describes and evaluates the information-seeking behaviour of young people in the virtual environment. Data are drawn from a JISC/BL funded project on the future scholar and a seven-year study of the virtual scholar conducted by CIBER at University College London. Hundreds of thousands of young people, mainly students, from all over the globe, are covered in the log analyses. On the basis of these data, the characteristics of their ‘digital footprints’ are drawn, demonstrating the huge paradigm shift that has occurred in the information seeking of young scholars. The results are surprising, disturbing and challenging and the author concludes with a discussion of how information professionals and the arts and humanities community in general might best meet young people’s information needs.

The Future of the Arts in Education? Alternative Strategies

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
Robert Long
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Arts In Education ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Education Act ◽  
Sustained Responses

Much speculation exists as to the prospect Music and the Performing Arts face in the wake of the 1988 Education Act. Research shows that interaction and fusion, which exist between Music and the Performing Arts, intensify expressive character for young people, and generate more powerful and sustained responses, in comparison with single art forms.Results of experiments show the value of fused artefacts with significant implications for future Arts education, as regards both making and appraising.

scholarly journals Digital Video and 'e-cinema'

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon Wee
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Video ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Consumer Market ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future

NEW HORIZONS: DIGITAL VIDEO AND 'E-CINEMA' When digital video (DV) was introduced to the consumer market in 1994, it would have been difficult to visualise it as a medium predestined to cast a shadow over the future of filmmaking. Vulcanised on the advances in digital technology, DV would not only proselytise a slew of economical and mechanical gambits to its superiorly endowed counterpart, but also attempt to wrestle power and centrality from it. And now, more than half a decade on, filmmakers around the globe are either basking in DV's therapeutic warmth or shunning its unsavoury heat. In contemporary Singapore, where the omnipresent label 'film industry' is a categorical misnomer, and where the financial realities of using film constitute a perennial cul-de-sac, DV has unsurprisingly been embraced as the alchemic alternative. Earlier in March, the Substation (a non-profit centre for the arts) organised a groundbreaking seminar on the business...

Arts, Culture and the City: An Overview

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Charles Landry
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
City Development ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Industrial Buildings ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
New Business ◽  
Culture Heritage ◽  
Physical Assets ◽  
Social Importance

More people, more organizations, more towns, cities, regions and countries for more reasons have found that over the last 30 years the arts, their broader culture and overall creativity has something in it for them in renewal and revitalization. Over the last decade there have been over a hundred studies of the economic and social importance or impact of the arts, culture, heritage, the recycling of buildings for cultural purposes, creative quarters and the creative economy across the world. Yet there is much more to the arts, culture and creativity in city development. Places in transition urgently need to develop an overall culture of creativity cu ing across all domains within which the arts can be significant. This can be a painful exercise as old certainties crumble and systems, like education, need rethinking. Yet this can unleash new social innovations, new business models and new forms of citizen engagement. Renewal and transformation together are a cultural project involving a shift in mindset and perspective. Creativity is a primary resource as it creates the conditions from which innovations can emerge. Within this the creative economy sectors, especially when aligned to the dramatic digitization dynamic, play a significant role in developing new products and services, generating jobs, anchoring identity and helping expression. Cultural activities and programming and the physical assets of places, their heritage and older industrial buildings are significant elements in the renewal repertoire.

scholarly journals The Australian labour market in 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 002218562110022
Author(s):  
Elisa Birch ◽  
Alison Preston
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Older People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Food Services ◽  
Hours Worked ◽  
The Future

This article provides a review of the Australian labour market in 2020. It outlines the monetary and fiscal responses to COVID-19 (including JobKeeper, JobSeeker and JobMaker policies), describes trends in employment, unemployment and underemployment and summarises the Fair Work Commission’s 2020 minimum wage decision. Data show that in the year to September 2020, total monthly hours worked fell by 5.9% for males and 3.8% for females. Job loss was proportionately larger amongst young people (aged 20–29) and older people. It was also disproportionately higher in female-dominated sectors such as Accommodation and Food Services. Unlike the earlier recession (1991), when more than 90% of jobs lost were previously held by males, a significant share (around 40%) of the job loss in the 2020 recession (year to August 2020) were jobs previously held by females. Notwithstanding a pick-up in employment towards year’s end, the future remains uncertain.

scholarly journals Future of Sustainable Management of Energy Companies in Terms of Attitudes and Preferences of the Younger Generation

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 3207
Author(s):  
Arnold Pabian ◽  
Katarzyna Bilińska-Reformat ◽  
Barbara Pabian
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Social Attitude ◽  
Future Activity ◽  
The Future ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Energy Companies ◽  
High Degree

The future of the energy sector depends on the younger generation. The paper presents the results of the study, the aim of which was to determine to what extent younger generation is pro-ecological and pro-social, and whether they will include pro-ecological and pro-social activities in the management of energy companies. It is especially important to implement sustainable management in the energy sector. The study found that only 33.9% of young people are highly pro-ecological and 28.6% highly pro-social. As many as 83.0% of the younger generation show low and medium interest in environmental protection. Declarations of young people concerning high degree of inclusion of pro-ecological and pro-social activities in management are at the level of 49.9% and 58.1%. However, in many cases, these intentions do not coincide with the high pro-ecological and pro-social attitude of young people. This means that their future activity for sustainable management may be low. According to the survey, the younger generation to a large extent is not prepared to continue efforts for sustainable development in the future in the energy companies.

scholarly journals A new renaissance for creativity in technology and the arts in the context of virtual worlds

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Earnshaw
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Diverse Environment ◽  
Research Environments ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaborations ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Ideas

AbstractWhere do new ideas come from and how are they generated? Which of these ideas will be potentially useful immediately, and which will be more ‘blue sky’? For the latter, their significance may not be known for a number of years, perhaps even generations. The progress of computing and digital media is a relevant and useful case study in this respect. Which visions of the future in the early days of computing have stood the test of time, and which have vanished without trace? Can this be used as guide for current and future areas of research and development? If one Internet year is equivalent to seven calendar years, are virtual worlds being utilized as an effective accelerator for these new ideas and their implementation and evaluation? The nature of digital media and its constituent parts such as electronic devices, sensors, images, audio, games, web pages, social media, e-books, and Internet of Things, provides a diverse environment which can be viewed as a testbed for current and future ideas. Individual disciplines utilise virtual worlds in different ways. As collaboration is often involved in such research environments, does the technology make these collaborations effective? Have the limits of disciplinary approaches been reached? The importance of interdisciplinary collaborations for the future is proposed and evaluated. The current enablers for progressing interdisciplinary collaborations are presented. The possibility for a new Renaissance between technology and the arts is discussed.

scholarly journals The Accession Pedagogy

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bilge Firat
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Policy Tools ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Future ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Viable Model ◽  
The Eu

From 1989, new plans to enlarge the EU caused growing public disenchantment with the future of European integration as a viable model of cooperation among states and peoples in Europe. To manage disenchantment, EU actors designed various policy tools and techniques in their approaches to European peripheries such as Turkey. Among these, they intensified and perfected processes of pedagogy where EU actors assume that they have unique knowledge of what it means to be 'European' and that they must teach accession candidates how to become true Europeans. Based on accounts of EU politicians and officials, past experiences of government officials from former EU candidate states and Turkish officials' encounters with the EU's accession pedagogy, this article explores the EU's enlargement policy as a pedagogical engagement and the responses it elicits among Turkish governmental representatives, in order to test the reconfigurations of power between Europe and the countries on its margins.

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