Australian context

• The Australia Council for the Arts – Education and the Arts
• The Australia Council for the Arts - Participation research
• The Australia Council for the Arts - Schools as Arts Audiences
• Department of Culture and the Arts – Research Hub
• Arts Access Australia
• Growing Future Innovators: PICA/ECU arts education project
• The Arts and Australian Education: Realising potential
• Western Australian Institute for Educational Research
• Evaluation of School-based Arts Education Programs in Australian Schools
• Arts and Education – report by Dr Mary Ann Hunter
• Not Just an Audience-How children and young people can transform Australian theatre

International context

• International Society for Education through Art
• Learning and the Arts: Can Mozart make you smarter?
• National Endowment for the Arts (USA)
• Americans for the Arts
• ARTSEDGE - The Kennedy Centre
• Champions of Change (USA)
• Arts Research Monitor (Canada)
• Learning: Creative approaches that raise standards (UK)
• Improving City Schools – How the arts can help (UK)
• All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education (UK)
• The Education Index at PhDs.org is a premier source of updated, clear educational                                                                        data about undergraduate and graduate programs in the United States of America
• Arts Education Navigator - facts and figures about arts education in the USA
• The Arts Ripple Effect: A Research-based Strategy to Build Shared Responsibility for the Arts (USA)

 General interest

• 2012 Middle Years program, hosted by The Department for Communities, the Commissioner for Children and Young People and the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth: Building resilience in middle childhood and The impact of middle years on social and emotional development. Dr Shanker, 2012 Thinker in Residence, has examined the importance of self-regulation in children, with a particular focus on strategies that can be used to develop and enhance self-regulation.
• Dr Shanker's Keynote Address, 5 June 2012 at Wesley College, South Perth
• Dr Shanker's Parent Information Session, 6 June 2012 at St Mary's Anglican Girls' School, Karrinyup