Heart in the Middle of the World

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Heart in the
Middle of the World

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Thank you for visiting Heart in the Middle of the World. We would like to hear from you. If you have had a chance to look around, please join in the conversation about art education for displaced and refugee children. What can we do to promote art education for all children? Here are the comments of some other people who visited us. If you have not yet added your comments, please do so now by selecting here.

Felicity Wank--- From New Zealand
[Sunday September th, 23:03:21 at 5]

community: No comment
Rate content: Don't know
otherm: refugee
Comments:
I am a refugee from Cambodia and I don't want to comment on this stuff.

Anna Johnston--- From Sydney, Australia
[Mail Me][Sunday April 18th, 1999 at 02:35:27]

community: Downtown neighborhood
Rate content: Basic to the curriculum
Comments:
This exhibition is fascinating and eye-opening for me as an adult! It is fantastic that these children were given the opportunity to express themselves through such a great means of communication and that this form of art education has helped them to work through their experiences as a result. I have been so inspired by Emil Tanay's work with these children I am embarking on my own research of how art education can help the refugees in Sydney's primary schools. If anyone has anything to contribute to this, please mail me!

Anthea--- From Winchester
[Mail Me][Friday August 14th, 1998 at 05:49:59]

community: Outskirts of the city
Rate content: Very important
Comments:

I was fascinated by them. I am doing my dissertation on intergrating refugee children into the classroom and these pictures show us how much we need to know to be able to teach these children.
Amazing work!

gmagnuso--- From grand island, nebraska
[Mail Me][Friday October 24th, 1997 at 13:56:52]

community: Small Town
Rate content: Basic to the curriculum
Age: x
otherm: middle school teacher
Comments:
I am currently engaged in teaching a unit on "Cultures in Conflict" to sixth grade middle scnts. I became aware of this site through a state art & technology educator's group. It is a powerful site for my teaching objectives. I will use it to expand our geographical knowledge and as a visual stimulus as well as reminder to students who think that there are no wars going on in our world.

Erich Mistrík--- From Bratislava, Slovakia
[Mail Me][Thursday October th, 06:43:47 at 2]

community: Outskirts of the city
Rate content: Basic to the curriculum
Age%3D: on
Comments:
These drawings show that art education is of existential importance to children. See Bertil Sundin writing about this. Children can and want to express themselves in various forms of art. They learn through art (colours, sounds, etc.). As regards these children fro Bosnia and some other cruel regions: In order to prevent such stupid things as fighting and shooting is, people all over the Central Europe need multicultural education. Tolerance, empathy, caring are things which were absolutely neglected during communist era. Consequently: We need effort for combining art education and multicultural education.

Margaret M. Grimsby --- From Florence, South Carolina 29501-4660
[Mail Me][Monday September th, 14:40:28 at 1]

community: Downtown neighborhood
Rate content: Basic to the curriculum
Comments:

Excellent

James McLamb--- From Florence sc
[Mail Me][Sunday August 31st, 1997 at 12:50:19]

community: Downtown neighborhood
Rate content: Basic to the curriculum
Comments:
This is a test.

a martin--- From florence, sc usa
[Mail Me][Saturday August 30th, 1997 at 09:56:56]

community: Downtown neighborhood
Rate content: Basic to the curriculum
Age%3D: on
Comments:
The paintings and drawings moved me to create the web page exhibit. I look forward to your response and dialogue regarding the exhibit.