- Title
- Creative industries: teacher perceptions of higher education study and job futures in regional and remote Australia
- Creator
- Grushka, Kathryn; Lawry, Miranda; Chand, Ari; Kerrigan, Susan
- Relation
- Australian Art Education Vol. 41, Issue 1, p. 29-52
- Relation
- https://www.arteducation.org.au/images/stories/files/journal-files/v41n1/41_1_2020-contributor_biographies_and_editorial.pdf
- Publisher
- Art Education Australia
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- This article focuses on New South Wales (NSW) regional secondary teachers’ perceptions of Creative Industries as a higher education vocation pathway for students. The Creative Industries Roadshow sought to help students and teachers reimagine regional and remote career opportunities and study pathways into Creative Industries higher education. Creative Industries, a significant curriculum reform in Higher Education in 2011, shifted the focus from traditional fine art and design curriculum to creative practice as enterprise and the role of creatives in building the economy (Australian Government, 2011). The article draws on the empirical evidence gathered during the implementation of the Creative Industries Careers: Re-imagining Regional and Remote Students’ Opportunities roadshow for secondary students (Grushka, et al, 2018b). The Creative Industries Roadshow was funded by the Australian Department of Education, Higher Education Participation Partnerships Program (HEPPP). It was instituted in order to encourage students to consider Creative Industries university study pathways and the value of a creative digital technology skill to being work ready. This qualitative study reports on secondary school teachers’ attitudes to the increasing characterisation of creatives as entrepreneurs and the need to provide all students with appropriate soft skills. It draws on a teacher survey and teacher video interviews supported by the fieldnotes of the researchers. It identifies the challenges facing a regional university trying to maintain fine arts skills within a Creative Industries program and how secondary visual arts educators and regional communities identify with the elevation of the role of Creative Industries skills to meet future workforce needs.
- Subject
- creative industries; curriculum; teacher perceptions; visual education; aesthetic digital literacies; work futures; higher education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1431374
- Identifier
- uon:38953
- Identifier
- ISSN:1032-1942
- Language
- eng
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