{"id":6236,"date":"2010-11-09T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T20:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=6236"},"modified":"2010-11-10T13:50:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T18:50:47","slug":"arts-matter-promotes-art-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/11\/arts-matter-promotes-art-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts Matter promotes art in the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6235\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6235\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6235 \" title=\"teacher candidates at an Arts Matter workshop\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/artsmattersweb.jpg\" alt=\"Teacher candidates participate in a workshop at the Arts Matter conference.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher candidates participate in a workshop at the Arts Matter conference.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brock\u2019s future teachers have gained some new ideas about using art in the classroom thanks to the first ever Arts Matter conference held by the Faculty of Education.<\/p>\n<p>More than 125 teacher candidates attended Arts Matter: Integrating the Arts Across the Curriculum on Oct. 28 and 29 at Brock\u2019s Hamilton campus. Highlights included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a keynote speech from arts advocate David Booth<\/li>\n<li>a performance by Roseneath Theatre<\/li>\n<li>10 integrated arts workshops with skilled clinicians in drama, music, dance and visual arts<\/li>\n<li>closing remarks by Fiona Blaikie, Dean of the Faculty of Education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The conference was organized by Shelley Griffin, Peter Vietgen and Kari-Lynn Winters, all faculty in the Department of Teacher Education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to the continuation of this event in future years,\u201d Winters said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s future teachers have gained some new ideas about using art in the classroom thanks to the first ever Arts Matter conference held by the Faculty of Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6249,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236\/revisions\/6249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}