Education Partnerships. EMPOWERING ADULTS AND CHILDREN ACROSS A GLOBAL NETWORK.

Community Education Program, UK

Through our ongoing work with communities aimed at promoting sustainability through the arts, Artfully AWARE is organizing and supporting partnerships between schools and communities in the United Kingdom and Africa through our Community Education Program. We are currently working on forming new relationships with communities in additional countries. The aims of our Community Education Program are to:

- Create projects for use in the school environment that can be easily integrated through many different subjects, both individually and cross-curricular, with a specific emphasis on arts based projects
- Focus on communities’ strength, cultural understanding, breaking stereotypes and finding ways to overcome challenges
- Mutually benefit all participating communities within both the developed and the developing world by encouraging all participants to look beyond their own school, community and country
- Enable schools to use the curriculum to cultivate the knowledge, values and skills needed for young people to act asglobally aware citizens. This will help achieve the national aim that by 2020, all UK schools are models of good global citizenship

Artfully AWARE has close links with the British Council, as they completely value our work with schools to develop international partnerships. By working in partnership with AfA, schools will be able to meet the International Schools Award’s (ISA) expectations that they develop through:

- An international ethos embedded throughout the school
- The involvement of the majority of pupils within the school in international work
- Collaborative curriculum-based work with one or more partner schools overseas
- Curriculum-based work across a range of subjects; in particular, those which are arts-based
- Year round international activity
- Evaluation of the learning outcomes on pupils from a variety of sources allowing for an improvement of cultural activities