The Social and Cultural Value of Participatory Arts for Children and Young People

通过探索创造性过程，该项目将在日益注重目标驱动的目标的背景下，批判性地审查参与对儿童和年轻人具有社会和文化意义的艺术活动是什么。这项研究着眼于创造力的探索性和表现力，而不是工具价值，将阐明参与式艺术在青少年身份发展中的作用。结合民族志和视觉方法，研究将特别关注青年参与者的观点，使用儿童和青年产生的艺术成果作为重要数据。从社会学的角度来看，童年可以被理解为一个社会空间，年轻人在其中探索他们的环境，并随着他们的身份的显现而与他们的机构进行实验。该项目旨在探索创造力在正在形成的身份中的作用，以及在青年机构的行使中的作用，审查这一过程是如何发生的，并考虑到其潜在价值。为了做到这一点，它将借鉴社会学对童年和艺术实践的理解，考察塑造年轻人参与方式的社会和文化因素。这项研究将使用基于理论的归纳方法，能够理解参与式艺术过程的性质、参与者的社会和文化地位以及互动发生的空间之间的复杂互动。该项目将位于文化桥艺术理事会国家组合组织、学校和青年团体的艺术工作网络中，在整个东北地区开展工作。文化之桥方案的目的是在这些组织之间建立可持续的伙伴关系，以确保儿童和年轻人体验到高质量的创造性和文化机会，这将对他们的生活产生有意义的改变。作为与Tyne和Wear档案馆和博物馆(TWAM)主办的文化桥梁方案的合作项目，它还将为他们今后发展儿童和青年工作的实践提供信息。这项研究将以年轻人(11-18岁)为对象，并在定向方面具有参与性。与文化桥合作，将成立一个由儿童和年轻人组成的咨询小组，为研究设计的决定提供信息。咨询小组将每季度召开一次会议，制定一套在整个研究过程中将遵守的指导方针，并将就基于艺术的方法和这些方法的形式进行合作。方法设计将围绕一系列定性方法，以便收集不同类型的文本、视觉、人种学和代表性数据：面对面的叙述性访谈、实地对话、焦点小组和参与者观察、以艺术为基础的方法，如照片和电影日记、戏剧、徒步旅行和讲习班，以及青年自己创作的艺术作品。要使用的方法范围很广，既可以使用，也可以增加定性访谈的内容。通过结合不同的方法论方法，这项研究的目的是用一种“马赛克描述”来阐明年轻人的经历，以及身份是如何在一个创造性的空间中产生和复制的。伦理方面的考虑一直是这个项目设计的核心。将借鉴以前的专业经验，包括青年参与培训和保护和儿童保护方面的二级资格，以保证年轻参与者的安全。将彻底预期目标的透明度、知情同意、保密性和对权力动态的承认等关键问题，并建立管理办法。

By exploring creative processes, the project will critically examine what it is about participation in arts activity that holds social and cultural meaning for children and young people in the context of an increasing focus on target driven objectives. Focusing on the explorative and expressive rather than the instrumental value of creativity, the study will shed light on the role of participatory arts in the development of young identities. Combining ethnographic and visual methodologies, the research will pay particular attention to the young participants' perspectives, using the artistic outputs generated by the children and young people as important data. Childhood from a sociological perspective can be understood as a social space within which young people explore their environment, and experiment with their agency as their identities are emerging. The project seeks to explore the role of creativity in the ongoing formation of identities, and in the exercise of young people' agency, examining how this occurs and taking account of its potential value. To do so, it will draw from sociological understandings of childhood and arts practice, examining the social and cultural factors that shape how young people participate. The research will use a theory-based, inductive approach which can make sense of the complex interactions of the nature of the participatory arts process, the social and cultural position of participants, and the spaces in which the interaction occurs. The project will be located within the arts-based work of Culture Bridge's network of Arts Council National Portfolio Organisations, schools and youth groups, working throughout the North East region. The purpose of the Culture Bridge programme is to create sustainable partnerships between these organisations to ensure children and young people experience high quality creative and cultural opportunities that will make a meaningful difference to their lives. As a collaborative project with the Culture Bridge programme, hosted by Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums (TWAM), it will also inform practice in the future development of their work with children and young people. The research will be with young people (aged 11-18 years old) and is participatory in orientation. In collaboration with Culture Bridge, an advisory group of children and young people will be set up to inform decisions on the research design. The advisory group will meet quarterly and devise a set of guidelines that will be adhered to throughout the research and will collaborate on the arts-based methods and the form these will take. The methodological design will be centred around a range of qualitative approaches that enable the gathering of different types of textual, visual, ethnographic and representational data: face-to-face narrative interviews, field conversations, focus groups and participant observations, arts-based methods such as photo and film diaries, theatre, walkabouts and workshops, and the art-work produced by the young people themselves. The broad range of approaches to be used have the benefit of both using, but also adding to qualitative interviews. By combining different methodological approaches, the research aims to use a 'mosaic of accounts' to illuminate young people's experiences and how identities are produced and reproduced within a creative space. Ethical considerations have been central to the design of this project. Previous professional experience including youth participation training and a Level 2 qualification in Safeguarding and Child Protection will be drawn upon in order to guarantee the safety of young participants. Key issues such as transparency of objectives, informed consent, confidentiality and acknowledgement of power dynamics will be thoroughly anticipated and approaches to managing established.