藝創未來－2021 美術館兒童藝術教育國際論壇
Creating the Future with Art - 2021 International Symposium on Children's Education in the Art Museum.
宗旨（Purpose）
近年來桃園市各項文化建設蓬勃發展，其中桃園市立美術館的成立更期許能成為全新的文化標記。除了嶄新的硬體設施外，桃園市民平均年齡為六都當中最年輕的，故此，透過美術館來推動兒童藝術教育，也成為重要的課題。
然而，2020年的來臨，全球面臨新冠肺炎的挑戰，疫情嚴重地影響世界各國的經濟與社會的發展，以及阻隔了社群和人際間的互動，許多的藝術文化活動也因為防疫的考量，受到牽連而停止舉辦。所幸臺灣的疫情得到良好的控制。我們希望透過實體與線上雙重交流的國際論壇，重啟國內外美術館間對兒童藝術教育的對話。為此，桃園市立美術館特別邀請李靜芳教授擔任客座策劃人，並邀請來自新加坡、韓國、日本、美國及台灣學者進行主題式的分享與對談，活絡國際美術館間對兒童藝術教育哲學與方法的交流、互動與相互理解。
2021國際博物館日的年度主題為：博物館的未來：復原與再想像 (The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine)。因此，美術館作為一個社會藝術教育機構，也需要同步的思考，透過「藝」術的學習，美術館能為兒童「創」造一個甚麼樣的「未來」? 在疫情的衝擊下，要如何維持兒童持續參與藝術活動的機會? 面對當代社會生存的各種嚴峻的挑戰下，美術館可以透過藝術教育，為我們的兒童建構哪些創意思維與解決問題的能力。然而，在這個資訊與科技發達的時代，社會發展日趨複雜，美術館也需要透過國際交流，尋求資源共享與協力合作，以發揮她在藝術教育上的影響力。
因此，本論壇目的，其一，透過藝術認知發展理論與美術館兒童藝術教育實務與案例的分享，探討在不同的社會文化環境下，美術館在兒童學習主題內容的規劃、教育計畫執行的方法，以及教學媒體上的特色。其二，希望了解美術館與學校藝術教育如何進行資源共享，其雙方藝術教育合作的機制與實施之情況。其三，探悉美術館如何為兒童創造友善與有效的藝術學習資源與環境，包含軟體的生產與應用，以及硬體的設備，諸如情境空間與學習環境的設計規劃等。其四，在當代教育哲學強調學習者為主體的概念下，探究兒童的藝術作品該不該展覽，以及若該展出，其方法可能為何等問題。
Various cultural infrastructure is flourishing in Taoyuan these years. In particular, the establishment of Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts (TMoFA) carries the aspiration of becoming a whole new beacon of culture. Aside from the new hardware, the citizenry of Taoyuan City are the youngest population among the six municipalities in Taiwan in terms of average age. Hence, promoting children’s art education via art museum becomes a vital issue as well.
Nevertheless, the world has been facing the challenge of COVID-19 since 2020. The epidemic has severely impeded the economic and social developments of countries worldwide, hindering interactions among community and people. Many artistic and cultural activities have also been suspended due to epidemic prevention. Fortunately, the situation has been well controlled in Taiwan. Through both international symposium for exchanges, online and offline, we aim to rekindle conversations on children's art education between art museums at home and abroad. Thus, Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts especially invites Professor LEE Ching-Fang as our guest curator as well as scholars from Singapore, Korea, Japan, U.S.A., and Taiwan to engage thematic sharing and dialogues, reviving the exchange, interaction, and mutual understanding of art museums around the globe on the philosophy and methodology for children's art education.
The theme of the 2021 International Museum Day is: The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine. Hence, as a social art education institution, an art museum ought to think simultaneously about what kind of “future” it can “create” for children through the learning of “art” practices? In the face of the impact from the epidemic, how can we sustain opportunities for children to continue partake in art activities? Also, in light of the various stringent challenges for the survival in the contemporary society, what creative thinking and problem-solving abilities can an art museum construct for our children via art education? Meanwhile, in this age of advanced information and technology, social development becomes ever more complicated. An art museum thus needs to seek resource sharing and collaboration through international exchanges so as to exert its influence on art education.
Therefore, the purposes of this Symposium are as follows. First, it is to explore art museum’s planning in thematic content for children’s learning and methodology to execute education programs as well as features of instructional media in diverse social and cultural contexts through sharing of the cognitive development theory on art and art museums’ practices and cases of children art education. Second, it endeavors to capture how art museums and art education in schools share resources as well as the mechanism and implementation for art education collaboration between the two. Third, it probes into how art museums foster friendly and effective art learning resources and environments for children, including the production and application of software, as well as hardware equipment, such as the design and planning of immersive spaces and learning environments. Fourth, with the idea of the contemporary educational philosophy that emphasizes the learner at the core, it delves into whether children's works of art should be exhibited and, if so, the possible methods for such exhibition.
主題範疇（Scope）
為響應國際美術館教育的關注趨勢，與以上的目的，本論壇主要聚焦於探討藝術的認知發展對一般生與特殊生之相關理論、美術館與學校機構間的教育合作、美術館的學習資源及空間規劃，美術館對文化近用與共融層面的關注與實踐，以及，兒童作為學習的主體，其藝術品應該如何被對待等面向，進行主題式的分享與座談。期許透過國際美術館間的對話，能為兒童美術教育，提供更前瞻性的思考與多元實踐的可能。規劃四個主題如下：
主題一：兒童的藝術認知與發展
主題二：博物館與學校的藝術教育合作
主題三：創造友善與有效的藝術學習資源與環境
主題四：兒童的藝術作品該不該展出？
Echoed with the focused trends of international art museum education and the abovementioned purposes, the Symposium organizes thematic sharing and discussion centering around aspects such as the theories pertaining to the cognitive development of art for students with and without special needs, the educational cooperation between art museums and schooling institutions, the learning resources and space planning of art museums, art museum’s focuses and practices on the levels of cultural accessibility and inclusion, as well as how should the artworks of children be treated while children being the subject in learning. Through dialogues between art museums across borders, it strives to offer possibilities for a more forward-looking thinking and diversified practices for children's art education. The four themes are proposed as follows:
1.Children's Cognition and Development in Arts
2.Art Education Collaboration between Museums and Schools
3.Creation of Friendly and Effective Art Learning Resources and Environment
4.Should Children's Artworks Be Exhibited?
