MAP Transversal Competencies: Creative Arts Approaches to Education Across the Curriculum

This resource was developed to inform the Transversal Competencies framework through the creation of teacher-led lesson plans to integrate local culture into the curriculum. From October 2023 to July 2024, a research team from Kathmandu University partnered with Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) from the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom to develop a pilot Nepal Arts Education Framework. The goal was to adapt and integrate MAPs arts-based exercises into existing secondary school curricula for Culture and Arts Education. This was a need articulated at the UNESCO-MAP Roundtable in September 2023. The pilot framework provides a case study and resource to inform the implementation of the UNESCO Framework on Culture and Arts Education (February 2024) and support the UNESCO Creative Cities designation of Kathmandu (January 2024), as well as the Transversal Competencies Framework