Debates in Art and Design Education

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Debates in Art and Design Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with contemporary issues and developments in learning and teaching. It introduces key issues, concepts and tensions in order to help art educators develop a critical approach to their practice in response to the changing fields of education and visual culture.

Accessible, comprehensive chapters are designed to stimulate thinking and understanding in relation to theory and practice, and help art educators to make informed judgements by arguing from a position based on theoretical knowledge and understanding. Contributing artists, lecturers and teachers debate a wide range of issues including:

Debates in Art and Design Education is for all student and practising teachers interested in furthering their understanding of an exciting, ever-changing field, and supports art educators in articulating how the subject is a vital, engaging and necessary part of the twenty-first century curriculum. Each chapter points to further reading and each section suggests reflective questions to help shape art educators' teaching. In particular, Debates in Art and Design Education encourages art educators to engage in research by providing an essential introduction to critical thinking around contemporary debates.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction
• Part 1 Cautionary Tales
• 1 Art and Design Education at the Crossroads
• 2 The Hijacking of Creativity: the dilemma of contemporary art education
• Part 2 Debates within the Classroom
• 3 Questioning Creativity
• 4 Critical Race, Multicultural Art Education
• 5 Symbolic Representational Processes: a case for embodied practice
• Response To Cozens
• 6 âÇ Strangely delivered by pyrates': illustration and the National Curriculum
• Part 3 Debates Beyond the Classroom
• 7 Cultural Diversity, Creativity and Modernism
• 8 From Trance-like Solipsism to Speculative Audacity? Young people's learning in galleries today
• 9 Critical about Design
• Part 4 Debates In-between
• 10 Art Practice as a Form of Research in Art Education: towards a teaching artist practice
• 11 Art, Academe and the Language of Knowledge
• Part 5 Forever Changes
• 12 Art Education âÇ as if' for Future Flourishing: three analogies between human beings and types of creative grammar
• 13 Learning, Truth and Self-Encounter
• References