Wicked Arts Education

Wicked Arts Education helps you to design exciting arts educational programmes from scratch. These arts programmes make a meaningful connection between the culture of the student, the arts, and society. We have tested our arts educational design strategies around the world and found that they challenge arts educators to explore curriculum ideas collectively, creatively and productively.

In a time of individualization and polarization, we believe in the power of learning collectively about, in, and through the arts. Although Wicked Arts Education can be used to create personalized learning trajectories, it advocates building learning communities in which students and teachers share interests, expertise, and opinions.
Wicked Arts Education can be used in a variety of educational contexts: from primary to higher education, and for arts curricula inside and beyond schools. The term ‘arts’ underlines that this workbook is suitable for the visual arts, music, dance, theatre, film or design, but also for designing interdisciplinary arts projects and courses. So, whether you are an arts teacher, an artist, or a curriculum designer, or if you want to set up a single lesson or a complete arts curriculum, this book is for you!

Authors: Melissa Bremmer, Emiel Heijnen, Folkert Haanstra
Co-editor: Sanne Kersten
Design: Laura Pappa

Wicked Arts Education is also available in Dutch as a separate publication with the title Wicked Kunsteducatie. In order to view and order the Dutch version of this publication, please go to the Dutch page of this publication.

Wicked Arts Education — Worksheets

In this link you will find several worksheets to shape your Wicked arts curriculum, or to assess the work. These can be used in all art disciplines as well as in interdisciplinary projects. You can download these worksheets for free, print them and use them in various contexts. We also invite you to make up your own ‘rubrics’. Good luck!