Understanding Art Education: Engaging Reflexively with Practice

by Addison; Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780415367400
• ISBN10: 0415367409
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-01-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What is distinctive about art and design as a subject in secondary schools?

Author Biography

Nicholas Addison is Senior Lecturer in Art, Design Museology and Course Leader for the MA Art Design in Education at the University of London, UK. Lesley Burgess is Senior Lecturer in Art, Design Museology and Course Leader, for the PGCE in Art Design at the Institute of Education. Institute of Education, University of London, UK. John Steers is General Secretary of the National Society for Education in Art and Design, and Visiting Senior Research. Fellow at Roehampton University, London, UK. Jane Trowell is Lecturer on the MA Arts Policy and Management at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and Co-Director of the London-based interdisciplinary group Platform.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
Authors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Histories and Futures	p. 5
Art and design in education: ruptures and continuities	p. 7
A return to design in art and design: developing creativity and innovation	p. 24
Reconceptualising Practice	p. 41
Developing creative potential: learning through embodied practices	p. 43
Learning as a social practice in art and design	p. 67
Assessment and learning	p. 93
Relocating Practice	p. 111
Critical pedagogy	p. 113
Collaborative liberatory practices for global citizenship	p. 134
Bibliography	p. 148
Index	p. 165
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