2018 Global Teacher Prize Winner Art at the Heart: Improving Educational Opportunities for All

Speaker: Andria Zafirakou, recipient, 2018 Global Teacher Prize, Varkey Foundation; Arts and Textiles teacher, Alperton Community School in northwest London, England.

Discussant: Steve Seidel, Ed.M.’89, Ed.D.’95,Bauman and Bryant Senior Lecturer on Arts in Education and faculty director, Arts in Education, HGSE

Andria Zafirakou, winner of the Global Teacher Prize 2018, fights on a daily basis to ensure that some of the poorest children in England can experience the beauty and transformative power of the arts. She is an arts teacher from Alperton Community School in London, one of the most ethnically diverse places in the United Kingdom, with 130 languages spoken in its schools. In an era when funding and accountability pressures threaten arts education in many schools, access to arts education is becoming yet another factor dividing the more privileged from the less. Join Zafirakou as she sets out why the arts are so important, and what can be done to ensure they are accessible to all.

This Askwith Forum lecture is held in conjunction with MIT Open Learning. 

Location: Harvard Graduate School of Education, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA 02138

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The Askwith Forum will be streamed live on the Harvard Education Facebook page.