(NAME-MCE) Heinz research project

[hanleym at email.unc.edu]

Hello all,

George Noblit (UNC-Chapel Hill) and I have been asked by the Heinz 
Endowments to find out what is known about the connections between 
culturally responsive, relevant, or congruent teaching and programming, 
ethnic identity and socialization, resiliency, and success in school, 
especially in regards to arts, arts education and/or cultural programs. 
We are beginning rather expansively to seek any literature that 
presents evidence and/or evaluated programs, in-school or otherwise, 
that have demonstrated connections between the above ( in part or in 
whole) and/or on related or similar ideas. We are writing to ask for 
help in identifying possible lines of inquiry as well as specific 
sources.

The Heinz Endowments have given us only a couple of months to pull this 
together, so if you have any thoughts please respond asap. We will be 
able to follow up on what we have received by July 16, 2007. We would 
ask that you provide any contact information or references you have 
readily available.


We believe this is an important project, but our searches so far have 
not yielded many studies which present evidence (and we are defining 
evidence very broadly) of these connections.  If any of you have any 
suggestions it will be greatly appreciated!

            Please let us know of:



1. Any arguments or evidence you would wish to provide.





2. Any studies, evaluations, articles, books, etc. that may help us 
summarize the evidence on the above.





3. Any education, cultural, arts and/or arts education programs that 
are attempting to address some of the above issues and their 
connections.





4. People we should talk with about any of the above.






Thanks,



Mary Stone Hanley and George Noblit



-- 
George W. Noblit, PhD
Joseph R. Neikirk Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Education and 
Chair, Culture, Curriculum and Change
CB #3500
School of Education
UNC-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599


Mary Stone Hanley, PhD
Assistant Professor of Arts Education
  and Multicultural Education
School of Education  CB#3500
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3500
919-843-5649