Creative Industries and social inclusion: young people's pathways through informal & community learning in the performing arts

创意产业和社会包容：年轻人的非正式途径

• 批准号: AH/D001498/1
• 负责人: Alice Sampson
• 金额: $ 22.7万
• 依托单位: University of East London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FD001498%2F1
• 关键词: Creative; Industries; social; inclusion; young

The UK government is championing creative industries as a solution to urban problems of unemployment and social exclusion of young people on the basis of limited evidence. To assess the value of this policy this study will investigate the life paths of young people aged 16 to 25 years who participate in community based performing arts programmes and chart their transitions into employment/unemployment and/or further and higher education. Through our study we wish to explain if, and how, participating in community based performing arts programmes makes a difference to the life paths of these young people.We will interview young people attending four different performing arts projects providing 'creative' opportunities to find out how their attendance affects their decision-making about their future. Projects will be selected according to strict criteria including the provision of 'creative' opportunities, places of informal leaning, open to all young people and are financially viable over the research period. The reason for selecting four organisations is to increase our knowledge gained from the research which arises from being able to compare and contrast different performing arts programmes. Those participating in the research will include young people from a wide range of different ethnic backgrounds, including those with no formal qualifications and those with formal qualifications and a balance of different ages and gender. Our study adopts an inclusive, equal opportunities approach and participation in the study is voluntary. A minimum of 480 young people will be included in the study and they will be interviewed a number of times and observed over 18 months. This approach will enable us to examine a range of different situations and contexts which may, or may not, influence the life courses of these young people.We will also examine the way in which projects work and how they teach young people new skills. We will find out how government policies are influencing the practices of projects and in turn how this affects the life-courses of young people. We will interview a minimum of 42 staff and local and national policy-makers to explore these issues.The research will be led by Alice Sampson who has over 15 years experience and is an expert in evaluating social programmes designed to assist the 'social inclusion' of young people. The research will also be led by Graham Jeffery who is a leading figure in the performing arts field. A research assistant will be employed full time to conduct most of the interviews and observations.Findings from the research will be widely disseminated by writing reports for young people and practitioners, writing papers for academics, putting information on a web-site, and organising seminars. The findings will include information on whether or not performing arts programmes make a difference to the life paths of young people and if they do, what difference they make. It will also contribute to the debates about the value of learning in and through the arts as a mode of social inclusion and as a means of promoting employment, the effect of government polices on the performance of community based arts organisations and further our knowledge about how best to assess these programmes and understand the decision-making processes of young people who are past compulsory education. The cost of the research to the Arts and Humanities Research Council is £167,821.

英国政府正在倡导创意产业，以解决因有限的证据而对年轻人的失业和社会排斥的城市问题。为了评估这项政策的价值，本研究将调查16至25岁的年轻人参加社区表演艺术计划，并将其转变为就业/失业和/或进一步的高等教育。通过我们的研究，我们希望解释是否以及如何参加社区表演艺术课程对这些年轻人的生活道路有所不同。我们将采访参加四个不同表演艺术项目的年轻人，提供了“创造性”的机会，以了解他们的出勤方式如何影响他们对未来的决策。将根据严格的标准选择项目，包括提供“创造性”机会，非正式倾向的地方，向所有年轻人开放，并且在整个研究期间都在财务上可行。选择四个组织的原因是，从能够比较和对比不同的表演艺术计划中获得的研究中获得了我们的知识。参与研究的人将包括来自各种不同种族背景的年轻人，包括那些没有正式资格的年轻人以及具有正式资格的人以及不同年龄和性别的平衡。我们的研究采用了包容性，平等的机会方法，并且参与研究是自愿的。这项研究至少将包括480名年轻人，他们将接受多次采访并观察到18个月以上。这种方法将使我们能够检查一系列不同的情况和环境，这些情况可能会或可能不会影响这些年轻人的生活课程。我们还将研究项目的工作方式以及他们如何教年轻人的新技能。我们将找出政府政策如何影响项目的做法，进而影响这如何影响年轻人的生命库。我们将至少采访42名员工和国家和国家决策者来探索这些问题。该研究将由拥有15多年经验的爱丽丝·桑普森（Alice Sampson）领导，并且是评估旨在帮助年轻人“社会包容”的社会计划的专家。这项研究还将由格雷厄姆·杰弗里（Graham Jeffery）领导，他是表演艺术领域的主要人物。将全职聘请研究助理来进行大多数访谈和观察。研究将通过为年轻人和实践者撰写报告，为学术界撰写论文，在网站上提供信息并组织半手。这些发现将包括有关表演艺术课程是否会影响年轻人的生活道路以及他们带来的不同的信息。它还将为关于在艺术中学习和通过艺术学习的价值作为一种社会包容性的一种辩论，作为促进就业的一种手段，政府政策对社区艺术组织绩效的影响，以及我们对如何最好地评估这些计划并了解过去强迫教育的年轻人的决策过程的知识。艺术与人文研究委员会的研究成本为167,821英镑。