The current issue in Research in Arts and Education, Vol. 2023 No. 3 (2023), focusing on the Thematic Issue on Inclusion and Equality Through Arts and Art Education, is now openly accessible. 

Included are interesting articles, such as one by Kai Lehikoinen from ELIA member, University of Arts Helsinki, and Eeva Siljamäki from the University of Jyväskylä, discussing key skills and competencies in socially engaged arts practices titled “Socially Engaged Arts (SEA) Practices: Key Skills and Capabilities”.

Socially engaged arts (SEA) have evolved in multiple directions, creating new competence needs for practitioners. This article investigates SEA as a professional practice to enhance it as a field of study in higher arts education. An inductive qualitative approach is applied to analyse extant curricula, literature, and interviews to grasp how the key competences are discussed in the practitioner, educational, and scholarly contexts to identify and structure eight competence areas practitioners can benefit from. The article contributes to a deeper under-standing of the changing landscape of artists’ professionalism and the potential of higher arts education in supporting artists in SEA. Read article>

For more articles in this thematic issue, follow this link. 

Research in Arts and Education is an international double-blind peer-reviewed journal. Thematic scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to, the questions of art & design practice and production, criticism, pedagogy, curriculum and instruction. The journal welcomes all arts disciplines: visual arts, music, dance and other performative arts, their theories, practices and education.