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The book
Unlocking the Arts
A practical guide to increasing DP arts participation in IB World Schools
Students choose their subjects surrounded by signals about what is rigorous, useful, safe and worth pursuing. Timetables, university advice, counselling conversations, parental expectations and school culture can all make the arts quietly harder to choose. None of it announces itself as a barrier. All of it shapes the outcome.
12
barriers
36
strategies
9
tools
Drawing on award-winning doctoral research across IB World Schools on four continents, and eleven years working within the International Baccalaureate.
Paperback · ISBN 978-90-834569-0-4
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Written for the people who shape the choice
Arts teachers, DP coordinators, university and guidance counsellors, and school leaders. Each chapter ends with a tool you can complete in your own school. Select a chapter to see what it covers.
- Identify what is really shaping arts participation in your school
- Diagnose the barriers shaping student subject choices
- Apply strategies to increase arts participation
- Use writable tools and templates to turn insight into action
Part One
Understanding the problem
The data, the history and the decision-making ecosystem that shapes arts participation.
Part Two
Making the case
The strategic core of the book: from what you can influence to what others must agree to.
Part Three
Sustaining the arts
The longer work of listening to, building and protecting an arts culture that lasts.
Plus: Appendix A, research methodology and school profiles · Appendix B, 36 strategies for breaking barriers · Appendix C, arts subjects and university pathways.