NAAE Updates

An Update from John Saunders - Chair of NAAE

An Update from Susan Davis (Drama Australia) – Summary of latest NAAE Meeting

 NAAE – Term 3 Summary

The National Advocates for Arts Education met in September 2024. We discussed the following key items:

• Reflections were shared on the NSW Joint Select Committee’s Inquiry Into Arts and Music Education and Training. Several NAAE national and state affiliated associations gave testimony at the hearings. The inquiry’s submissions, transcripts and videos of the hearings are available here. NAAE’s submission can be accessed here.
• NAAE’s chair worked with Professor Daniel Harris (RMIT) and Dr Rachael Jacobs (Arts Nexus/Western Sydney University) to provide a briefing to Commonwealth Education Minister’s Schools Advisor as a follow-up to the Arts Nexus Forum on PISA’s Creative Thinking assessment. We emphasized the interconnected nature of arts education and creative thinking. A brief summary can be found here. 
• NAAE’s is hosting a Queensland Arts Education, Arts Training and Arts Industry Roundtable with our state affiliates and other key organizations and institutions to discuss the current state of the arts in the lead up to the Queensland state election in late October. 
• NAAE members continue to map commonwealth policy initiatives against the National Cultural Policy: Revive. We are setting up meetings with The Office of the Arts, and Creative Australia to discuss the actions in Revive pertaining to arts education. 
• Dr Jeff Meiners Dance, former NAAE member and outgoing Chair of Dance and the Child International(daCi) joined the meeting to provide a briefing about UNESCO’s work in developing the framework for culture and arts education.