HIRAETH

Arts In Education

The Arts embody media that can promote all aspects of education. A bold but real statement, for embedded within The Arts are the tools needed to promote holistic human learning and development. Hiraeth promotes a number of topical Arts In Education packages that enhance social-emotional functioning, celebrate and validate multiple levels of human intelligence and empower academic, personal and social development.

“Sareema hated school, she believed that no-one understood her and her life. Transferance of her life traumas onto significant teachers in the form of acting-out behaviours soon resulted in her being permanently excluded from mainstream school. She was referred to an alternative system of education. Within a few weeks Sareema experienced a very different teaching environment. A Hiraeth Arts practitioner was intentionally facilitating a circus group to affirm the kinaesthetic abilities of the students within the programme. The group was also designed to provide an academic focus for the students and embed academic learning. The Arts practitioner worked in partnership with the basic skills tutor. Sareema discovered new abilities within the arts. She wrote about her achievemets in detail during structured lesson time: focussed written reflection that she had avoided for so long. Sareema also learned mathematical shapes and formula that were intrinsically embedded within the circus arts. Sareema had engaged in an affirming approach to personal development that honoured the arts as the educational vehicle towards her achievement of academic Key Skills.”