Refining Skills Framework for Arts Education
Ministry of Culture, Community and YouthSpeakers
Summary
This question concerns whether there are plans to refine the Skills Framework for Arts (Arts Education) to more specifically define skillsets for education and research tracks across various artforms. Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong Chun Fai stated that the framework is designed as a common skills language with broad competencies to suit different settings and student profiles. He emphasized that individuals and employers should customize these general skills to their specific contexts, utilizing real-world case studies provided by the National Arts Council and SkillsFuture Singapore. These examples, drawn from a National Institute of Education study, demonstrate how general competencies are applied and contextualized within specific artistic practices. The National Arts Council and SkillsFuture Singapore will continue to review the framework periodically to ensure it remains relevant for industry practitioners and the arts education sector.
Transcript
49 Ms Usha Chandradas asked the Minister for Culture, Community and Youth whether the Ministry has plans to further refine the Skills Framework for Arts (Arts Education) such that the general skillsets required for professionals in the Education Track and Research Track are defined in a more targeted way in relation to each of the specific fields of dance, literary arts, music, theatre and visual arts.
Mr Edwin Tong Chun Fai: The Skills Framework for Arts is intended to create a common skills language for the arts education sector, instead of being specific to artforms.
The work functions, skills, competencies and benchmarks have, therefore, been articulated broadly, so that they can cater to different settings, artforms and student profiles. Examples of these technical skills and competencies include artform pedagogy, arts curriculum design and vendor and partnership management for arts educators, and artform history and culture and project management for arts researchers.
Approaches to arts education and research will vary across and even within artforms. Users of the Skills Framework, whether they are individuals, employers or training providers, should customise the information provided in the Framework to their specific contexts. To illustrate this, the National Arts Council (NAC) and SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) have included real-world examples of how these general competencies are applied by arts educators, contextualised to their own artforms and informed by their artistic practices. These case studies were drawn from a study by the National Institute of Education that was commissioned by NAC as part of the Framework development process.
NAC and SSG will review the Framework periodically to ensure that it remains relevant and applicable to the industry and our practitioners.