Arts Education in America: What the declines mean for arts participation
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In June 2009, the Cultural Policy Center and NORC were awarded two of five competitive research grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to examine and interpret data from the 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts and previous SPPA surveys (1982, 1992, 2002). Nick Rabkin headed a project investigating the relationship among arts learning (both past and current), overall educational attainment, and all forms of arts participation. Vince Welch, a senior statistician at NORC, headed the project on "Race, Ethnicity, and Arts Participation." The projects resulted in monographs that speak to a broad group of scholars and cultural practitioners. Rabkin's monograph, co-authored with E.C. Hedberg and published in February 2011, received attention in the Los Angeles Times and was cited in a report by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities titled "Reinvesting in Arts Education."
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There have been reports of declining arts participation with age in the United States.
“There have been reports of declining arts participation with age in the United States (US) as well [17–19].”
From Difference in predictors and barriers to arts and cultural engagement with age in the United States: A cross-sectional analysis using the Health and Retirement Study (2021) · cites this paper as [18]
In the Adult arts education section (page not provided), the report says benchmark arts attendance rises with age: in 2008, adults aged 55 or older were the most likely to attend. The Introduction reports a decline in participation over time, not a decline as people age. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- P. DiMaggio, M. Useem, and P. Brown, Audience Studies of the Performing Arts and Museums: A Critical Review (Washington, DC: National Endowment for the Arts, 1978).
- J. Dewey, Art as Experience (New York: Penguin Group, 2005), 2.
- See, for example: G. Lakoff and M. Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980);
- Dutton, 2006); and M. Gazzaniga, Learning, Arts, and the Brain: The Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition (New York: Dana Press, 2008).
- M. Gottdeiner, and R. Hutchison, The New Urban Sociology (Boulder: Westview Press, 2006), 223-25.
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- Authors
- Rabkin, N., & Hedberg, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- ORCID
- Hedberg, Eric
- Venue
- University of Chicago
- Publisher
- University of Chicago
- Published
- 2011-02
- Pages
- 1-57
- OpenAlex
- W2626873431
- Cited by
- 80
- References
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- FWCI
- 173.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- Knowledge@UChicago (University of Chicago) (submittedVersion)
- University of Chicago
- Funders
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Art Education and Development
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Arts, Culture, and Music Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Keywords
- art education, arts participation, art learning, educational attainment, race and ethnicity, cultural participation, arts education funding
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