Ubwuzu: Shaping the Rwandan National Curriculum through Arts

该项目旨在实现我们最初的研究项目‘流动艺术促进和平’的全部影响，该项目是通过AHRC Network Plus项目《改变故事：与5个冲突后国家的年轻人一起建设包容性社会》开发和交付的“概念验证”试点项目。后续资金的影响将扩大原始项目的影响范围，并通过我们与卢旺达教育委员会(REB)的新关系产生政策层面的影响。在进行初步研究的过程中，我们发现，虽然音乐、舞蹈和戏剧被列为《学前至高中课程纲要(2015)》的一个科目，但这门以艺术为基础的课程并没有提供，教育工作者也没有接受过这一科目的培训。因此，这个名为Ubwuzu(伟大的喜悦，Fullness)的后续资助项目的一个主要目标是利用这种方法为课程框架提供信息，设计一个定制的创造性艺术课程，并为每个省的教育工作者和年轻人提供培训。卢旺达于2012年批准了以保护和促进文化表现形式多样性为基础的教科文组织2005年公约，并“侧重于提升国家文化表现形式和民众参与，以此作为促进对话和团结的手段”。教科文组织《卢旺达2017年文化表现形式多样性报告》指出，通过制作和传播文化和艺术表演以及促进和平活动，这些措施大大促进了区域一体化和可持续发展。然而，报告指出，这些举措仍需扩大规模，以惠及更广泛的受众。此外，报告中的两项有针对性的措施--在学前教育、小学和中学实施音乐和艺术以及在卢旺达大学设立表演艺术系--尚未完全落实。Ubwuzu项目将包括共同调查员Mashirika创意和表演艺术及其合作伙伴Aegis Trust、卢旺达教育委员会和夸图电影学院，以及民间社会组织的未来展望杂技演员、Mindleaps、Niyo美术馆、Niyo文化中心、Uuduri乐队、基加利摄影中心、Music Mind Consulting和Eric 1Key。这一后续项目的上述目标将通过最初的范围确定访问和课程讲习班来实现，随后将对文化艺术家和高中教育工作者进行培训，并在五个省的每一个省举办青年夏令营。到2019年年底，估计将有75名教育工作者和文化艺术家以及150名年轻人接受了乌布武祖方法的培训，以便在他们的学校和整个社区提供课程(另有5 000人作为观众和讲习班参与者)。

This project sets out to realise the full impact of our original research project 'Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP)', which was a 'proof of concept' pilot project developed and delivered through the AHRC Network Plus project Changing the Story: Building Inclusive Societies with, and for, Young People in 5 Post-Conflict Countries. The impact follow on funding will extend the reach of the original project, as well as generating policy-level impact through our new relationship with the Rwandan Education Board (REB). In the course of conducting initial research, we discovered that although Music, Dance and Drama was included as a subject in the Curriculum Framework for Pre-Primary to Upper Secondary students (2015), this arts-based curriculum had not been available nor had educators been trained in the subject. Thus, one primary goal for this follow on funding project entitled Ubwuzu (great joy, fullness) is to use the methodology to inform the Curriculum Framework, designing a bespoke creative arts curriculum, and providing training of educators and young people in each province. Rwanda ratified the UNESCO Convention 2005 in 2012 based on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and 'focussed on the upgrading of national cultural expressions and popular participation as a means to promote dialogue and unity'. The UNESCO Diversity of Cultural Expressions Rwanda 2017 report states that measures have significantly contributed to regional integration and sustainable development through the production and dissemination of cultural and artistic performances as well as peace promotion activities'. However, the report notes that these initiatives still need to be scaled up to benefit a much wider audience. Additionally, two of the targeted measures in the report - the implementation of Music and Arts in pre-primary, Primary and Secondary schools and the initiation of the Department of Performing Arts at the University of Rwanda - have yet to be fully actualised. The follow on impact project will address some of these stated needs, to scale up cultural, artistic and peace promotion activities, to promote dialogue and to provide skills in the creative arts.The Ubwuzu project will include co-investigator Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts and partners Aegis Trust, Rwandan Education Board, and Kwetu Film Institute alongside CSOs Future Vision Acrobats, Mindleaps, Niyo Art Gallery, Niyo Cultural Centre, Umuduri Band, Kigali Centre for Photography, Music Mind Consult and Eric 1Key. The noted aims of this follow on project will be delivered through an initial scoping visit and curriculum workshop, followed by a training of trainers of cultural artists and upper secondary educators and the delivery of youth camps in each of the five provinces. By the end of the 2019, there will be an estimated 75 educators and cultural artists and 150 young people who will have been trained in the Ubwuzu methodology to deliver the curriculum in their schools and community at large (serving an additional 5,000 as audience members and workshop participants).