From The Wow Factor to The How Factor
Waxmann · ISBN 978-3-8188-0217-2
Twenty years after The Wow Factor, this study asks how culture and arts education can last inside real school systems. It draws on consultations, policy, research and cases from 220 countries and territories, covering governance, curricula, partnerships, funding, teachers, cultural rights and digital change.
Waxmann · ISBN 978-3-8309-1617-8
Commissioned by UNESCO in 2004 with the Australia Council and IFACCA. Ministries and case studies in more than 60 countries were used to separate education in the arts from education through the arts, and to set comparable marks of quality. Published in five languages and circulated in more than 40 countries. She opened the 2006 UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education in Lisbon with this work.
International Yearbook for Research in Arts Education 5/2017 · Waxmann
Comparative research seven years after the Seoul Agenda, the international agreement that followed the UNESCO arts-education conferences. Listed by Waxmann among her books.
Waxmann · ISBN 978-3-8309-2265-0
Waxmann’s German-language book on the quality of arts education worldwide.
With Matt Qvortrup, for the three education ministries
Three commissioned reviews, deposited at the University of the Arts London as The Ildsjael in the Classroom: A Review of Danish Arts Education in the Folkeskole; Kwaliteit en Consistentie: Arts and Education in Flanders; and a companion review of arts and cultural education in the Netherlands.
With Chan and Leong · Hong Kong
A study of public arts education in Hong Kong from early childhood into adult life, inside and outside school, commissioned in the city’s cultural-policy debate.
New Media Consortium
An early report on how visual literacy sits with digital tools, written while she was still based in university arts education.
Revue internationale d’éducation de Sèvres, no. 42
A national account of Australian art education, published in the same year as the UNESCO compendium and the Sèvres dossier on arts education worldwide.
PhD, University of Technology Sydney
An arts-based study of what accomplished primary art teachers bring to the classroom: personal qualities and feeling, not only technique. Supervised by David Boud, with Ian Brown.
UNESCO, with IFACCA and the Australia Council
Background research ahead of Education for All, then the international survey that became The Wow Factor. Findings were later used in policy debates in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Australia, the Czech Republic, Korea, France, Germany and South Africa.
Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Iceland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Norway
Country studies of how arts and cultural education is actually provided, not only how policy describes it. The same question runs through them: where is the gap between a promise on paper and what children receive.
Education Commission, with A New Direction
A partnership she began as Director of the Education Commission. Teachers worked with creative practitioners on schemes of work tied to school development plans, with the aim of making already good schools more inventive.
The studies keep returning to a few claims, stated in her own research rather than as slogans:
This page is a selection of the public record, not a full bibliography. Anne should confirm anything she wants stated differently.