Editorial: Spring Term 2 2018-19

The Time to Listen report which we feature on page 18 of this issue of Teaching Drama is the culmination of a truly essential piece of research, in which young people themselves were asked what their arts education means to them. Statistics, however shocking, about the decline in arts provision in schools, the departure of staff members across the country, the uptake of arts subjects at GCSE in the wake of pressures put on schools by the Ebacc, have a dehumanising effect which threatens somehow to distance us from the individual daily positive impact that arts education has on those who are offered it. This report is important because its tone is a broadly positive one – young people were asked what they thought their arts education does for them, and their responses were written down: their voices heard.