IMPORTANT
The postmark deadline for InSEA election ballots has been extended to June 30, 2008, to accommodate postal inconsistencies internationally and to allow all InSEA members to vote in the election.

International Dialogues about Visual Culture, Education & Art
Editors: Rachel Mason and Teresa Eça
The 2006 InSEA conference’s aim was to facilitate debate in higher art-education on an international and multicultural basis. With global contributions, International Dialogues about Visual Culture, Education & Art reflects this aim, discussing themes in higher art-education in order to help solve global issues surrounding the subject.
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Join the 2008 World Creativity Summit in Taipei, Taiwan,June 5th – 8th 2008
(Hosted by InSEA and the National Taiwan Normal University)
UNESCO held its first World Congress on Arts Education in Lisbon in March 2006. A key element of that Congress was the announcement of a Joint Declaration between the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association (IDEA), the International Society for Music Education (ISME), and the International Society for Education through the Art (InSEA) to work together and to launch the World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE).
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The InSEA World Council will be putting forward the following notice of motion at the 32nd World Congress in Osaka:
NOTICE OF MOTION:  That the InSEA Constitution be accepted as revised by the World Council in August 2007.
The proposed changes in the Society's Constitution and Rules are detailed in a revised version of the text that can be downloaded here. ( PDF).

Note: official InSEA documents can be downloaded from the documents section of InSEAWeb

IMPORTANT: please note: effective immediately, the address for the InSEA Treasury is:
InSEA Treasurer 
James H. Sanders III  
c/o Department of Art Education
The Ohio State University
128 N. Oval Mall
Columbus OH 43210  
USA 

The 32 InSEA World Congress will be held in August 2008 in Osaka, Japan.
Visit the official website: http://www.convention-j.com/InSEA-WC2008osaka/ to read more about the congress theme, the program, call for papers etc.

Celebrating Pluralism : Honouring the work of F. Graeme Chalmers
May 30, 2008 The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
A one-day symposium honouring the rich legacy of F. Graeme Chalmer's scholarship.
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Project Earth to Art
Tapping Local Natural Resources for Sustainable Art Education Development in Anglophone Ghana and other Modernist African settings.
more on the projects page......

The World Creativity Summit

One of the significant recent InSEA initiatives is collaboration with two other world arts education organizations to form the World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE). InSEA President Doug Boughton (2004-2006) and members of the InSEA World Council established a working party to explore ways to respond to recent UNESCO arts policy. Leaders of the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association (IDEA) and the International Society for Music Education (ISME) were invited to contribute to this discussion and one of the most important outcomes of the meeting was the creation of the World Alliance. The first result of the international multi-disciplinary alliance is the Joint Declaration on Arts Education for the UNESCO World Congress of Arts in Education held in Lisbon, Portugal, in March 2006. This document establishes a fundamental position that arts education groups around the world can cite for direction and support.

InSEA President Ann Kuo (2006-2008) has actively worked within the World Alliance organization to plan the first World Creativity Summit (WCS) in Hong Kong, July 23-25, 2007. This international meeting brings together more than 100 innovative educators, scholars, and leaders from around the world to develop initiatives that will serve to ?nurture the creative and transformative potentials of every human being in the world.? These are the words of the World Creativity Summit Director and? IDEA President, Dan Baron Cohen. Participants in the Summit include InSEA President, Ann Kuo, Past-President John Steers, Secretary Michael Day, and World Councilors Lourdes Samson and Fernando Hernᮤez.

The excellent website for the World Creativity Summit can be found at this address: http://worldcreativitysummit.org/index.htm
The website features information about IDEA, ISME, and InSEA, goals, program, and methodology for the Summit, and brief biographies of each participant. Also on this site is a copy of World Alliance for Arts Education?s Joint Declaration on Arts Education. There is a wealth of information on the site for interested art educators. President Ann Kuo is developing the 2nd World Creativity Summit to be held in Taiwan in 2008, sponsored by InSEA and government, community, and education partners. Watch for more information as planning goes forward for the 2008 Summit.

posted 18 June, 2007