Pedagogical approaches: adapting to target groups

Being an artist nowadays also means to offer awareness to public and target groups. Nice. But what does it mean? How to talk about your art to small child, old people, persons with mental and cognitive disabilities, youngsters that are in a situation of academic failure, people with economical difficulties...?

Phase(s)

Pre-Production

Subject

Training methods

Target groups

Artists, Creative and Cultural Professions, Trainers/Coaches

Sectors

for all sectors, photography, visual and graphic arts, music, webdesign, dance, media, performing arts

Level of experience

for all levels, Beginners, Intermediary, Experienced

Prerequisites

Intention to work on an educational project or to set up educational activities. Intention to become a coach or a trainer.

Description

This training session will provide to the participants pedagogical tools to work with target groups. Pedagogical issues and approaches, training.

Content

How to adapt an artistic project to target groups?
What pedagogical approach? How to address to a public with less opportunities?
Concrete examples of educationnal projects with public with less opportunities: people with disabilities, persons in precaricious circumstances, etc.

Method

Exchange of good practices
Exchange with peer coaches
Workshops

Objectives

Increases awareness about training opportunities
Help the artists to define target groups to whom they can offer trainings and educational projects
Train the artists to pedagogical approaches that they need to talk about their activity or to train target groups.

Results

To acquire knowledge about diverse publics and target groups
To acquire pedagogical tools to address to target groups
To be able to define to whom their activity can be transmitted or presented

Resources

Basic equipment (computer, video projector, flipchart, wifi).

Evaluations

Questionnaire to be filled out by the participants (given and collected at the end of the session)
Discussion between the participants and the trainers at the begining and at the end of the day.

Support material

Powerpoint presentation, Videos, Exchange and discussion with the trainer

Duration

6 h

Participants

8 to 20

Course language(s)

Français, English

Past track experience

since 2013

Trainer

(Could be modified and complemented)

Gaëlle Werkling / project manager (RiF)
Nabil Ouelhadj / Trainer, dancer and choreographer (Cie Racines Carrés)

...
To be defined and complemented

Personal curriculum

This Curriculum was developed with funding from the EU programme ERASMUS+ as Strategic Partnership in the field of Vocational Education and Training.

This curriculum reflects only the authors’ views; the European Commission and the ERASMUS+ national agencies are not responsible for any use that may be made of the informations it contains.

RiF is based in Lille/France and has been working on local cultural development, sustaining innovative artistic and cultural projects, and organising events since 1990.