What We Know & Are Learning

CAPE is a learning organization – not simply one that presents arts education, but rather a living laboratory in which students learn while practitioners and formal researchers collaborate to improve both day to day learning and overall knowledge in the broader field of arts education.

CAPE’s Primary Research Questions

  1. What are the effects of arts integration on teachers and students?
  2. What strategies of integration lead to positive results in students?
  3. What interactions actually cause teachers to transform their arts integration practice?

Teachers and artists both begin their work with inquiry questions.  Together, curriculum and art making form a kind of investigation into that inquiry.

Similarly, CAPE staff, working with academic researchers, address significant questions about teaching and learning and the arts.  Carefully devised research plans and tools enable them to explore and answer those questions while working in CAPE schools.  CAPE is unique in the depth of the relationship back and forth between program and research.

CAPE regularly shares what it learns through research with schools, arts organizations, and the public.  Finally, CAPE seeks through research to discover not only answers, but also new questions to continue driving the quest to bring together teaching and learning through the arts.

 

 

 

Sisters Kiara and Tiara explore the joys of non traditional musical instruments at Bethune School.