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Department of Canadian Heritage: A Decade of Program Evaluations for the Cultural and Arts Sectors
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| Presenter(s):
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| Paule-Anny Pierre, Department of Canadian Heritage, paule-anny.pierre@pch.gc.ca
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| Catherine Mueller, Department of Canadian Heritage, catherine.mueller@pch.gc.ca
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| Oren Howlett, Department of Canadian Heritage, oren.howlett@pch.gc.ca
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| Abstract:
The Canadian federal government has a comprehensive policy framework to foster Canadian cultural industries and the development of arts and heritage - from creators to audience. The Department of Canadian Heritage supports the book, music, film and television production industries, arts training and performance, and cultural infrastructure through a range of policies and programs. The objective is to encourage the production and promotion of Canadian cultural works, foster a sustainable and competitive marketplace, and help ensure Canadians have access to their own culture. The measurement of impacts of the support to arts and cultural sectors is challenging. This presentation will provide participants with an overview of evaluation approaches covering the past 10 years of federal programs funding various initiatives within these sectors. Presenters will outline lessons learned and evaluation challenges related to performance measurement and pressure to demonstrate value-for-money in the context of increased accountability requirements.
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Mission Conceived Versus Mission Achieved
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| Paul Lorton Jr, University of San Francisco, lorton@usfca.edu
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The stated mission of an organization is, in a deductively ordered world, the encapsulation of the timeless focus of that organization from which measureable objectives can be derived to assess how well that organization is progressing toward its destiny. For arts organization in troubled times, this coupling of mission driven direction and success ought, in theory to be tight. The effort reported here examines the degree to which an Arts organization, in particular those presenting Opera, have stayed their mission dictated course and survived, even succeeded. By looking in depth at several opera companies in the San Francisco Bay area, more broadly, opera companies through out the United States and, in summary, at other arts organizations, we will present how well the conceived missions are actually achieved and have served to drive success.
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Some Children Left Behind: Policy Implications for Children’s Museums Providing Educational Services to Minority Youth and Children With Special Needs
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| Deborah A Chapin, Excelsior College, debchapin50@juno.com
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| Anna Lobosco, New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, alobosco@ddpc.ny.state.us
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| Dianna L Newman, State University of New York at Albany, dnewman@uamail.albany.edu
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This paper presents the findings of a study of the perceptions of eighty education directors of children’s museums responding to a paper-pencil survey. The study examined patterns in curriculum planning, current programming, pedagogy, reduction of barriers, mode of outreach, and the extent of effectiveness in the delivery of nonformal education programs for general education students, minority youth, and children with special needs. Education directors used appropriate strategies on these six constructs to a significantly greater degree for general education students than for minority youth or children with special needs. These findings have implications for policy improvements for children’s museum educators so that they adhere to American Disabilities Act and Civil Rights Act laws.
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