10th October 2024
From October 2023 to July 2024, a research team from Kathmandu University partnered with Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) to develop a pilot Nepal Arts Education Framework. The goal was to adapt and integrate MAP’s art-based exercises into existing secondary school curricula for Culture and Arts Education. This was a need articulated at the UNESCO-MAP Roundtable in September 2023. The principles and lessons from the MAP manual authored by Professor Ananda Breed as well as considerations of an art-based and student-centered pedagogy informed the design and delivery of the lessons. After reviewing the MAP manual and the National Curriculum of Nepal, five MPhil research students from Kathmandu University developed 20 lessons.