Self-Assessment Competency Framework for Creative Practitioners

CCE was one of the seven European partners in a Leonardo partnership project “Training Requirements and Key Skills for Artists and creative practitioners to work in participatory settings“ (TRaKSforA). Its main goal was to develop a framework for use by artists and other creative professionals working in participatory settings (such as schools, hospitals, community centres, youth centres, cultural houses, etc.). The project involved partners from seven countries: UK, Czech Republic, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Croatia, along with other partners supporting the project work, and was carried out from August 2013 to July 2015.

CCE had a leading role on the development of the framework. In July 2015, after two years of meetings, research, roundtables and interviews with creative practitioners and professionals, the Self-Assessment Competency Framework for Creative Practitioners who work in educational settings to develop the creativity of children (SACF) was published.

We hope that it will be of great value to artists and creative practitioners at all stages of their careers, as well as to teachers and other people collaborating with them, training providers or policy makers, and consequently children whose creative skills development is at the heart of the work.

The document is designed as an interactive pdf which can be used either in electronic or in printed form. The file contains hyperlinks to the relevant pages within the document (such as the list of contents or the lists of competencies and behaviours) to make your navigation faster and easier, as well as live links to other resources online. There are text boxes for you to type in and fields that you can tick, and you can save the document at any point to finish, review or update it later.

Next to the chance to look at a set of desirable competencies and related behaviours and assess these, you will also find advice and practical tips for developing each of the behaviours.

The main publication is accompanied by a spreadsheet which helps you visualise your competencies by presenting them in the form of spider graphs.

You can download the two documents via the links below.

Self-Assessment Competency Framework for Creative Practitioners

Self-Assessment Competency Framework for Creative Practitioners – Spreadsheet

 

Below you can find a short video on the framework and its development, produced by our Belgian partner organisation Vitamine C. The video features a short interview with Di Fisher-Naylor, Director of Programme Development at Creativity, Culture and Education, who led on the development of the framework.

 

Another outcome of the partnership, complementing the framework, is the document Case studies exploring the competencies of artists and creative practitioners who work in participatory settings to develop the creativity of children and young people. This is a collection of individual case studies illustrating the competencies identified and highlighting them in practice across Europe. The case studies submitted by some of the partner organisations are linked to specific artists’ projects in various contexts, and they helped to provide insight into the diversity of practices and of understanding and manifesting of the respective competencies. You can view and download the collection of case studies below.

Case studies exploring the competencies of artists and creative practitioners

 

The third outcome of the project is a set of main recommendations for vocational education and training providers who train artists and other creative practitioners for work in participatory settings, based on the work on the project over two years.

Recommendations for vocational education and training providers who train artists and other creative practitioners

 

 

More information on the partnership activities can be found here.