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Art Education in European Schools and Museums

ANISA - Italian National Association of Art History Teachers.

The main commitment of ANISA, since its foundation in 1951, is to encourage art education at all levels, with a special focus on the field of art teachers' professional retraining. Anisa's main goals are:

a) promoting and coordinating all activities aimed at improving Art Education at all school levels and civil society as well;

b) enhancing and experimenting didactic methodologies for art history through initial teacher training and in-service teacher

training;

c) promoting a wider knowledge and awareness of the cultural heritage at all levels;

d) elaborating and developing research projects involving teachers and cultural subjects in the field of heritage education;

e) elaborating and developing research projects aimed at the didactic innovation in the fields of art education, art history

and the history of heritage, with special attention to modern technologies.

Anisa can boast a long lasting experience in the field of art history education at school and in the specific domain of teachers' training (it constantly organizes conferences on art education and art history, training courses, collaborating with

universities, fine arts administrations, museums and schools). It also publishes a bulletin which is mainly addressed to art history teachers in service and an electronic Newsletter. It promotes and contributes to the experimentation of didactic

innovation in the field of art education especially at secondary school. Anisa is member of InSEA, ICOM and CECA (Education and cultural action committee) since 2005.

Its expertise in the field of art history education, recognized also by the Italian Ministry of Education, allows it to coordinate a project like this one, meant to increase and to better the teaching of this subject within the EU.

Referent for ITEMS

Prof. Irene Baldriga, Ph.D

Irene Baldriga is art history Ph.D.; she graduated from Rome’s University “La Sapienza” and was awarded with several fellowships from Italian and foreign cultural institutions. She has a wide experience in teaching art history and regularly participates to international academic projects. She has published extensively in Italian and English on art history topics from medieval to contemporary times and participated to the organization of several exhibitions. She holds a permanent position as art history teacher at the Italian High School and collaborates as instructor to some Studies Abroad Programs in Rome. Her favourite field of research is Renaissance and Baroque art, the history of collecting and patronage and the relation art-science in early modern Europe. Since 2007 she is a member of the Executive Board of ANISA (Italian National Association of Art History Teachers). Over the past year she has been deeply engaged in the defence of art history as a teaching subject in Italian educational system. At present, she is also very active in the field of Methodological Innovation in the teaching of art history (new technologies, collaboration with Museums and other cultural institutions, creative didactic strategies, etc.). She holds training courses for in-service art history teachers.