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Dear all, A huge thank you to all GEM colleagues who responded to my quest for reports etc on 'How children benefit from heritage/culture'. Please find the collated responses below: *** The best places to look are the Cultural Learning Alliance website, the Engage website (especially Enquire programme), the Uni of Leicester Centre for Learning in Museums & Galleries website, the Association of Children's Museums and, if it's still live, the Inspiring Learning for All website (or museums pages on ACE website?) *** Look for the studies done by professor Anne Bamford! *** This is a very small-scale study of children under 2 in the programme at the Museum of London (April 2012), but it is robust. *** CCE http://www.creativitycultureeducation.org/find-your-talent *** There are a few websites with research on these topics: 1. In the States, the Arts Education Partnership has just launched Arts Ed Research: http://www.artsedsearch.org/. 2. The (USA) National Endowment for the Arts has a number of research papers: http://nea.gov/research/research.php?type=R and published a paper "The Arts and Human Development" this past November (2011) that resulted in both our US Dept of Education along with another dozen or so national social service department forming a task force: http://www.nea.gov/pub/TheArtsAndHumanDev.pdf *** Have you seen the Cultural Learning Alliance Key Research Findings publication http://www.culturallearningalliance.org.uk/page.aspx?p=93? Key findings are: Learning through arts and culture improves attainment in all subjects Participation in structured arts activities increases cognitive abilities Students from low income families who take part in arts activities at school are three times more likely to get a degree Employability of students who study arts subjects is higher and they are more likely to stay in employment Students who engage in the arts at school are twice as likely to volunteer and are 20% more likely to vote as young adults The publication is a result of a trawl through every report I could find on the benefits of arts and heritage, with links to each of the reports cited. I only included studies with large samples and/or control groups so the evidence included is very solid, and it was signed off by the DCMS CASE review team. *** What the high bar on inclusion does mean is that there is very little specifically on heritage or museums, as most of those studies where too small or not controlled. One report that does mention museums is this: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/publications/working-papers/iser/2003-12.pdf which used the 1970 British cohort study and showed 16 year olds who reported visiting museums, as part of a list of arts and cultural activities, earned more than their counterparts at age 29 and were more likely to have a degree. *** http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/rcmg/projects/inspiration-identity-learning-2/IIL.pdf *** http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/research/CASE-systematic-review-July10.pdf Best wishes, Annette McCartney + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + GEM list: Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=GEM + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +