Here are some draft research questions that could be explored based on my outcome on cultural exchange, intersectionality, and diversity in arts education:
- How do students from diverse backgrounds experience belonging and inclusion within arts education programs? What barriers do they face?
- How do different aspects of identity (race, gender, class, sexuality, disability status, etc.) intersect to shape arts students’ experiences, opportunities, and creative expressions?
- In what ways do arts curricula, pedagogies, and learning environments embrace and promote intersectional perspectives? Where are the gaps?
- What are effective strategies for fostering intercultural exchange, empathy, and collaboration among arts students? How can programs facilitate meaningful cross-cultural dialogue?
- How knowledgeable and responsive are arts educators to issues of positionality, bias, and creating inclusive environments? What kind of training or development could be beneficial?
- What are the perspectives of staff from minoritized backgrounds regarding institutional culture, policies, and practices affecting diversity, equity and inclusion?
- How do admission and hiring policies and practices in arts institutions perpetuate or mitigate racial disparities? What reforms are needed?
- What initiatives aimed at improving representation and inclusion of minoritized groups have been successful? What best practices can be identified and shared?
- How can arts programs give greater visibility and voice to intersectional identities and experiences that have traditionally been marginalized?
- What are effective strategies for making arts institutions more equitable and anti-racist in their governance, policies, pedagogies, and practices?