From High School to Art School: Socioeconomic Inequalities in Creative Arts Opportunities to Learn (Poster 56)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Two
  In Poster Session: Priorities in Arts Education: Who and What Stakeholders Have Valued

Abstract

Unequal access to postsecondary arts education (and creative career pursuits) stems from precollege inequities. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), access to out-of-school time creative arts opportunities-to-learn, and the likelihood of declaring a postsecondary arts major. Drawing from the NCES Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002), this study examined student-level data from a nationally representative sample (N=6,155). Results indicated that participation in out-of-school creative arts opportunities-to-learn significantly mediated the relationship between SES and the likelihood of declaring a postsecondary arts major (p < .05). Implications include a call for increased access to affordable OST CA-OTL for a more socioeconomically diverse body of aspiring postsecondary arts students.

Author

• Lindsey Kunisaki, University of California - Los Angeles
  Presenting Author