Gateway Arts in Education Partnership

 

The Gateway Arts in Education Partnership was launched in 2000 based on the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education aesthetic education model. This form of arts integration uses a work of art as a text for learning based on the core belief that works of art provide inexhaustible opportunities for study. It is based on the following tenets.

 

 

Inquiry drives learning by asking open-ended questions and allowing students to wonder.

 

Art-making provides students with authentic experiences in the artistic medium to make choices similar to those made by the artist(s) who created the work under study.

 

Attending is careful observation and differentiating between perception and interpretation.

 

Context is researching in order to understand the artist and the world in which the artwork/performance was created and lives in now.

 

Reflection is the continuous review of the learning that has been taking place so that students can articulate how they have arrived at their knowledge and understanding.

 

STUDENTS practice and demonstrate perception and critical thinking skills, teamwork and problem solving.

 

TEACHERS add to their toolkit ways to engage and excite students about learning in their classroom through inquiry-based strategies that can be applied across the curriculum.

 

ADMINISTRATORS create a culture of student-centered learning in their schools, driven by the study of a work of art.

"We are interested in education here, not in schooling. We are interested in opening, in unexplored possibilities, not in the predictable or the quantifiable, not in what is thought of as social control. For us, education signifies an initiation into new ways of seeing, hearing, feeling, moving. It signifies the nurture of a special kind of reflectiveness and expressiveness, a reaching out for meaning, a learning to learn.

                               - from Maxine Greene's Variations on a Blue Guitar