Making Good Work
This research explores what is meant by ‘quality’ in the field of children and young people’s cultural production. It investigates what ‘high quality’ or ‘quality’ means to those working within and with Creative Partnerships: namely within the education and cultural sectors.
Thinking and practice have emphasised the role of process in young people's creative activity. However, product is both important in itself, and critical to the young person's work. At the same time, validation and accreditation are very one-sided and do not take into account the young person's own perspective. Run in association with Creative Partnerships Durham Sunderland, this project asks what, as more and more young people collaborate with professionals to create work that stands alone in the public realm, we can do to recognise its importance and value in their education, in their lives and as work in its own right.