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September 18, 2007
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The UNESCO Observatory on Multi-Disciplinary Research features an article
on “Prosperity and Peace through Art” by Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq,
founder and executive director of the International Child Art Foundation.
The Observatory is housed at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and
Planning of the University of Melbourne, in Australia. Its inaugural
bi-annual peer reviewed e-Journal states that the ICAF “has made
a unique contribution to global advocacy for arts education and integrating
the arts with science, sport and technology and important social objectives.”
“[T]he ICAF has demonstrated how the arts can be applied to achieve
important social objectives,” writes Dr. Ishaq. “The ICAF
programs guide schools to encourage children’s creativity, instill
empathy and understanding, and inspire creative global leadership. Under
the ICAF umbrella, teachers bring the world of arts and cultures to their
classroom, providing students with an opportunity to experience and appreciate
the varied manifestations of human creativity that make earth – a
fragile planet in a remote galaxy – still the most wondrous place
in the whole universe.” Click
here for full article…
The e-Journal encompasses the range of multi-disciplinary endeavors
that use all aspects of the arts to improve education, to build healthy
and sustainable communities, to reach the un-reached and to reduce poverty
and marginalization.
The UNESCO Observatory brings together people with shared interests
in the arts and encourages activities that cross disciplinary divisions,
drawing on the combined expertise of national and internationally recognized
researchers. The Observatory is an outcome of UNESCO’s World Conference
on Arts Education held in Lisbon, Portugal on March 6-9, 2006. The ICAF
was the only U.S. organization represented at the First Preparatory Meeting
for the Summit held at the UNESCO head office in Paris on May 3, 2004.
Dr. Ishaq presented an earlier version of this paper at UNESCO’s
World Conference and his keynote address to the International Society
of Education through the Arts (InSEA) in Viseu, Portugal on March 4,
2006.
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