CommonGround
2008
Mindful Innovations
A
practical experience: Valuing
indigenous heritage and cultural
diversity through arts education
Mariska
van Dalfsen
Founder,
Warmayllu Children’s
community
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The
design and development of an Arts Education
curriculum with intercultural focus
for elementary education in Peru.
We will
present through video, music and CD an
Intercultural Arts Education Proposal
for Peruvian elementary education. This
proposal is developed by Warmayllu in
a participative way, including teachers,
children, parents, local artists, university
students, arts educators and specialists
in curriculum design. The proposal includes
theory on the diversity of
perceiving arts in Peru, and intercultural
curriculum and methodology. Part of the
presentation will be the practical experience
of intercultural arts education promoted
by Warmayllu in rural and underprivileged
urban areas in the northern and southern
Andes, the Amazon, and coastal communities.
Conference Strand:Curriculum
and Assessment
Educators: how
to elaborate an intercultural Arts Education
curriculum
Artists: the
importance of promoting school research
projects on local arts
Cultural Organization
Administrators, Education
Administrators: the
importance of an arts education proposal
which takes in account cultural
diversity and local identity
Community/Parents: how
to actively participate as parents
in the transmitting of local heritage
through arts education
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Mariska
van Dalfsen is an architect,
educator and founder of Warmayllu
Children’s
Community. Since 1999 she has been
leading art workshops for children,
teachers and parents in coordination
with the Ministry of Education's
Department of Bilingual Intercultural
Education in rural and underprivileged
areas of Peru. She
has organized and designed exhibitions
in galleries and museums such as ICPNA,
Lima; Children’s
Museum of the Arts, NY; Jewish Museum,
NY; Museum of Ethnology, Rotterdam
and the exhibition Gli Querrieri de
X’ian, Venice, Italy, and has
been involved in the production
of the documentary films Educación,
Arte e Interculturalidad (2003)
and A
world of color: The art and life of
children of Cajamarca, Perú (2001).
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