2016•Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooksRequires access
Conclusion
Sandra Gattenhof
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Abstract
The conclusion looks at the current shifts occurring in the reporting of arts participation statistics by the Australia Council for the Arts with the release of Arts Nation: An Overview of Australian Arts (2015). The document shows that the Australia Council for the Arts has recognized that quantitative evaluation cannot tell the whole story about arts engagement by Australians. The conclusion speculates that such a move may signal a re-evaluation of what data should be captured in relation to arts and cultural participation and how the data may be captured. Further, it will show that the human story, as articulated through personal vignettes in the document, tells us more about the benefits that can result from the process than numeric data ever could.