Diversity through the Arts Resource pack

Diversity through the Arts resource pack

This new resource pack highlights some of the ways the arts could be used to promote inclusion, build participation, challenge discrimination and celebrate diversity in today’s classroom, with a particular focus on drama, music, visual arts and storytelling. The creative processes of the arts provide an ideal way in which children can express their own ideas, values, and feelings. They provide enormous scope for experiential learning and exploration.

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This resource pack contains background information, activities that are linked to the curriculum and the NCCA’s Intercultural Guidelines for Primary Schools, and further resources. The activities draw on children’s imagination, and their ability to put themselves in another’s shoes and to imagine alternatives. The arts can enable children to use their creativity in response to rigid thinking and stereotypes. They allow educators to ease into complex and sensitive issues with more subtlety and nuance than might otherwise be possible.

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