What We Need to Know About High School and Out-of-School


 

Questions to Guide New Research

  • What the mechanisms through which out-of-school arts education impacts the artistic, social, civic, personal, and cognitive development of high school students?
  • What are the long-term artistic, social, civic, personal, and professional outcomes of out-of-school arts learning in high school?
  • How do high school students engage with, understand, and affect the world around them through their artwork?
  • How do newer forms of dance, media arts, spoken word, and creative writing affect high school students’ cognitive, personal, social, and civic development?
  • How does arts learning in out-of-school contexts contribute to high school students’ career and college readiness?
  • How does out-of-school arts education affect high school students’ abilities to understand and express themselves?
  • What different and supporting evidence would result from new out of school arts education research that collaborated with other research disciplines such as psychology, sociology, neuroscience, health, and youth development with a focus on arts education outcomes?
  • What role to teaching artists play in out of school arts education and how does their work contribute to student outcomes?
  • What are the outcomes of alternative models of teaching and learning—including mentorship, peer-to-peer learning, collaborative activity, and intergenerational interaction—when used in the context of out-of-school arts programs?