Arts and cultural education in schools

It preserves, with a view to efficiency, proximity and balance of territories, the dynamics established over the past ten years within the framework of the partnership arrangements specific to each of the three academies of the region.
Thus, the legal and financial status of the major intervention mechanisms that existed before the territorial reform are preserved (the GIP Acmisa in the Academy of Strasbourg; territorial arts education contracts signed with local authorities in the Academy of Nancy; calls for projects geographically targeted in the Academy of Reims).

This inter-academic convention develops three main axes:

- the vocation of arts and cultural education to be coextensive to all teachings;
- the launch of regional calls for projects for creative residences in white areas of the regional cultural offer, in particular in the framework of partnerships with local authorities;
- programming of regional training for teachers, school managers and practitioners.

These conventions allow the mobilization of all the cultural facilities of the territory; they facilitate the access of young people to artistic practices and places of culture, they promote the encounter with artists and works.
These agreements may take the form of local arts education contracts (CLEA) or any other form adapted to the scale and configuration of the territory. The territorial management of actions and projects can take the form of a public interest group, like the Gip-Acmisa the Academy of Strasbourg, or any other form of partnership depending on the territorial context.

The young artist, whatever his field, is supported for a time of research, experimentation and mediation of its creation and production process over several weeks with high school or high school students in the most remote territories of the cultural offer, especially the so-called «white» zonesrural, peri-urban and education priority areas.

The residence promotes equal access of all young people to arts and cultural education and allows to value the cultural resources of the territory by the networking and the commitment of the educational community and the cultural world, the voluntary sector and civil society, the state and local authorities.
This scheme thus contributes to the implementation of the arts and cultural education pathway and contributes to an ambitious generalisation policy aimed at reaching 100% of the territory’s students.

It is a partnership scheme, initiated by the DRAC and the three rectorats of the Grand Est, which involves the local authorities, the higher art schools of the region and the places of reception of emerging artists (festivals, qualified or certified cultural structures of the Ministry of Culture, nurseries, wastelands, places of companionship, universities endowed with master’s degrees in literary creation, regional book agencies, etc.).

The Grand Est mediation and creative residency complements the existing arrangements in each of the three Academies. It has seven specific objectives.

Learn more about the Artists' Residence "La Fabrique Grand Est"

Workshops are optional activities. They are registered in the school project and are developed by a team of teachers, partners and students. They are open to volunteer students.

The practice is at the center of the artistic workshop which is enriched by an opening on the cultural environment.
The workshop is under the responsibility of a teacher. It can form a multidisciplinary team by ensuring the collaboration of other teachers. The DRAC verifies the qualifications of those involved in the arts and culture sector.

The workshop is open for one school year. The renewal of one workshop from one year to the next is not systematic. It is renewable, after evaluation. The duration is limited in time, in order to allow the renewal of teams and to benefit other institutions.

The artistic and cultural project class (PAC class) is part of the compulsory courses and is based on the programs and is integrated into the usual class schedules.

The artistic and cultural project is under the responsibility of a volunteer teacher and its implementation involves a team of teachers and a cultural partnership.

The project takes place throughout or part of the school year. Its organization is not necessarily weekly.

The purpose of the Media Education Project Class is to promote access to information and the use of media for all students in high school and college, encourage educational and artistic innovation and produce media messages to raise awareness of the place and role of the media in society.

The purpose of the Media Education Project Class is to promote access to information and the use of media for all students in high school and college, encourage educational and artistic innovation and produce media messages to raise awareness of the place and role of the media in society.
The project must be based on an approach characterized by the implementation of media practices, placing the students in situations where the activity, the discovery of the media, the meeting with professionals are enlightened by each other, acquisition of concepts and techniques, reflection and production.

The "Orchestra at school" system gives the possibility to an entire class (primary or middle school) to form, for 3 years, an orchestra.

Professional musicians work within the school with the entire class, in partnership with the college music teachers or primary dumists, as well as the entire teaching team.

Most students in this class discover their first instrumental experience.

Each orchestra is based on a partnership between the school, a music school, local authorities and cultural structures, a luthier...

The association Orchestra to the school develops the device throughout the territory. She accompanies the orchestras on a daily basis, in all their steps, La DRAC Grand Est and the association distributes annually a call for projects to the schools of Grand Est (usually in the spring).

Learn more about Orchestra at School and consult the annual call for projects of the DRAC Grand Est