A National Institute of Higher Education devoted to artistic education opened its doors a year ago in the Côtes-d’Armor to train students, teachers and artists.
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And you, what is your memory of artistic and cultural education? Is there a school outing, in a museum, a performance hall or a cinema, which marked you? A meeting with an artist who came in class, a music or theater workshop that you have in mind? Vailed, in the name of equal opportunities and the emancipation of youth, by all the ministers of culture for more than forty years, artistic and cultural education (EAC, in cultural-educational jargon) part of political promises.
Since 2017, Emmanuel Macron has committed to reach “100 % artistic and cultural education”, understand offering each student each year, at least one “quality” artistic and cultural action. As for the new Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul-Malak, she displays, in all her speeches devoted to access to culture for all, her desire to make artistic and cultural education her “priority of priorities”.
You have to go to Guingamp to find the last stone brought to this public policy project. In this town in Côtes-d’Armor, it is put forward from the forecourt of the station. Panels indicate to visitors that they are in the city of the National Institute of Artistic and Cultural Education (INSEAC). Mazette! This new higher education establishment, placed under the supervision of three ministries (culture, national education, higher education) and attached to the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts has taken place for a year in a unique place: a former prison in the center- town. Built in 1841, closed in 1952, she saw some 31,600 detainees pass. Now elegantly rehabilitated for a budget of 9 million euros, it welcomes the Gwinzegal art center and some ninety students, including eight doctoral students.
“Methodology and expertise”
Emmanuel Ethis never tires of visiting this building. “This institute was the missing element”, considers the rector of the Brittany academic region and vice-president of the High Council of Artistic and Cultural Education. “From now on, between the Digital Adage platform, which allows teaching teams to reserve cultural activities without administrative constraint, the collective share of the culture pass from the college, which prompted the teaching teams to phosphor Inseac, all the tools are in place to reach the 100 % EAC “, is persuaded this sociologist of culture. In 2020, it is the quarter -hour reading program in 2020, which encourages all Brittany students to stop at the same time once a week to read what they want. An initiative that the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul-Malak wishes to extend throughout the territory.
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