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Architecture and Pedagogy: How School Buildings Shape Learning: current reseach that explores how school architecture shapes the outcomes of education. We will be looking at a variety of schools, including traditional elementary and secondary schools, Waldorf schools, Reggio Emilia schools, and purpose-built schools conducive to certain kinds of learning.

Learning Through the Arts: an educational partnership designed to transform the teaching and learning processes in our public school systems, using the arts as tools for delivering general curriculum.

Community Arts Ontario: the Community Arts Ontario web-site provides arts, news and events 24/7. Their mission is to provide the leadership, vision and resources necessary to assist a collective group of stakeholders in developing communities across Ontario to their full artistic potential.

Arts Education: the homepage of the National Symposium for Arts Education. Contains information about national arts organizations, provincial curricula in the arts, and member services.

Project Arts in New York City Schools: a description of how arts programs have been restored in recent years throughout New York City.

Prologue to the Performing Arts: Ontario organization that works with arts councils, foundations, corporations, school districts, parent groups, teachers, and professional artists to bring performing arts experiences into school communities.

Arts Education Partnership: a private, nonprofit coalition of education, arts, business, philanthropie, and governmental organization that demonstrates and promotes the essential role of arts education in enabling all students to succeed in school, life, and work.

Creative Arts Learning Partnership: a division of the Toronto-based Learning Partnership. Offers arts workshops hosted by professional arts organizations to teachers of the Greater Toronto Area.

Music Education Research is an international refereed journal which draws its contributions from a wide community of researchers. MER publishes research covering a broad range of topics, including the development of musical understanding and creativity, the effects of gender, culture, ethnicity, class, and disability on musical attitudes, learning and behaviour, philosophical discourse surrounding values, principles, and purposes, and affective, artistic, and aesthetic development in and through music.

International Journal of Education and the Arts is a peer-reviewed online journal that serves as a forum for research and discussion in the fields of aesthetics and arts education. These fields include art theory, music education, visual arts education, drama education, dance education, and education in literature and narrative.

Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development is a compendium of research and summaries of studies prepared by the Arts Education Partnership.

The Canadian National Arts Centre has a number of education and outreach programs. Of particular interest is Pinchas Zuckerman 's broadband distance learning demonstration.

Artists for Schools and Communities provides schools and communities, throughout Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec, with experiences of artisitc excellence and creative process that awaken creativitiy.

On-line curriculum resources for various grade levels and ESL students. Each resource includes a description and specific Ontario curriculum connection.

Kentucky Centre for the Arts is a vibrant performing arts Centre, also offering long-established professional development programs in the arts for teaching, as well as school-based arts programs.

IDEA International Drama/Theatre and Education Association.

Dramatool is a meeting place for drama educators.

LEA UNESCO Arts and Education site.

ISME International Society for Music Education.

NSEA International Society for Education through the Arts.

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