Current partners
IDEA is committed to advocate drama pedagogies and theatre education as part of a campaign to establish arts-based pedagogies and artistic education throughout every level of education, throughout the world. To achieve this central aim, IDEA supports and organises workshops, seminars, projects, publications and conferences, and invests considerable time in building collaborations with other international networks, organisations and associations.
UNESCO
Since 1998, IDEA has developed a growing collaboration with UNESCO, co-organising regional meetings of experts, co-editing arts education publications, and participating as a member of the UNESCO Scientific Committee and Selection Committee towards the development and coordination of the UNESCO 2006 World Congress on Arts in Education. You can read more about this Congress in www.unesco.org/culture/lea and IDEA’s Position Papers.
InSEA and ISME
Throughout IDEA’s history, individual members and elected officers have worked closely with the International Society for Education through the Arts (InSEA) and the International Society for Musical Education (ISME). This institutional collaboration gained momentum through the creation of the Joint Declaration at the 2006 InSEA World Congress of Arts Education, which was presented at the 2006 UNESCO World Congress on Arts in Education. At the 2006 UNESCO World Congress, IDEA, InSEA and ISME formed the World Alliance for Arts Education to develop an integrated world-wide consultancy service and advocacy strategy. You can read reports and key documents related to these events and developments in our page World Alliance of IDEA ISME and InSEA.
AITA/IATA
Up until the founding of IDEA in 1992, the International Amateur Theatre Association organised the international drama in education congresses. Today we work in close collaboration, informing our respective members of each others’ activities and participating actively in each others conferences. You can read more about AITA/IATA in www.world-festival.de.
International Theatre Institute (ITI)
In 2004, IDEA’s General Council unanimously agreed to develop IDEA from a congress-centred organisation to a project-centred organisation, defining its three-yearly world congress as one of its four central projects. This development was reaffirmed by the decision to create a post for a Director of Young IDEA within the Executive Committee of IDEA. In 2005, IDEA completed the design of its International Young IDEA Project which was launched during the 2006 UNESCO World Congress. The ITI was a key partner in the launch phase of this international project. You can read more about this collaboration in www.iti-worldwide.org
World Social Forum (WSF)
In 2001, IDEA participated in the launch of the WSF (Porto Alegre, Brazil), contributing to the Forum’s ‘working group for culture’. During the following three years, as the WSF grew to become the largest civil society congress in the world, IDEA participated in the debates to establish culture and the arts as dimensions within all the Forum’s social and political themes. In late 2004, IDEA was invited to become a member of the Forum’s International Committee, and in January 2005, representatives from IDEA’s African and Latin American membership contributed to the opening and closing ceremonies of the WSF. You can read more about the WSF on www.forumsocialmundial.org.br.