It continues: “As an organisation we could perhaps even learn from the down to earth common sense of people who have no problem saying what a woman or a man is. The letter, whose author’s name has been redacted, explains how the council should be “open to views and attitudes of those who work and pay the taxes that fund us in the communities we’re engaging with.” One of her colleagues wrote to Mr Henley saying that he or she was “wary of wading into” the furore, but was worried the council was not open to the “default position of more or less the entire population” that people cannot change sex. The Arts Council denies she was harassed or victimised. It was sent after an online petition was shared by staff, which condemned giving LGB Alliance £9,000 and comparing that charity to the Ku Klux Klan.ĭenise Fahmy, 54, is seeking compensation for victimisation and harassment after the grants officer of 15 years spoke in favour of LGB Alliance receiving funding. The letter, seen by The Telegraph, was submitted as evidence in the employment tribunal of a grants officer who says she was hounded out of the Arts Council after expressing gender critical views, the belief biological sex cannot be changed.
They are informative on specific topics, but also offer a clear monitoring of the ways in which the general attention to the arts in education evolves through time.Bosses at Arts Council England were warned it risked being seen as “mad or irrelevant” for shunning “down to earth common sense” that people cannot change sex.ĭarren Henley, the chief executive of the public arts organisation, received a letter from one of his staff criticising the decision to scrap funding for a gay and lesbian charity because it does not represent transsexuals. The topics covered in the book range from policies to pedagogies, from social impact to philosophical conceptualisations. These contributions bring together diverse cultural and educational perspectives and include a large variety of artistic genres and research methodologies.
In this extraordinary collection, contributions are collected from experts all over the world and involve a multiplicity of arts genres and traditions. Arts-Based Methods in Education Around the World aims to investigate arts-based encounters in educational settings in response to a global need for studies that connect the cultural, inter-cultural, cross-cultural, and global elements of arts-based methods in education.
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