Table of Contents

1 Introduction

Nicholas Addison and Lesley Burgess

2 Art and Design Teachers’ Professional Development

Richard Hickman and Madeleine Brens

3 Learning in Art and Design Education

Nicholas Addison and Lesley Burgess with Victoria Kinsella, Dean Kenning

Unit 3.1 the relationship between learning and teaching

3.2 theories of learning and their implications for art and design

3.3 activity theory; (Victoria Kinsella)

3.4 experiential learning

3.5 affect and the aesthetic

3.6 language, motivation and learning

3.7 thinking through art: the social body mind map; (Dean Kenning)

3.8 enabling learning: transforming subject knowledge into pedagogy

4 Planning for Learning and Teaching

David Gee and Lesley Burgess

Unit 4.1 Curriculum Planning

Unit 4.2 Practice in ITE Art and design

5 Assessment and Examinations in Art and Design

Andy Ash and Kate Schofield with John Steers

Unit 5.1 Overview of assessment: principles and practice

Unit 5.2 Assessment in art and design

Unit 5.3 Art and design examinations

Unit 5.4 Reconsidering assessment for learning in art and design (John Steers)

6 Issues in Craft and Design Education

Lesley Burgess and Kate Schofield with Helen Charman

Unit 6.1 Craft

Unit 6.2 Design

Unit 6.3 Sustainable design: design can change the world (Helen Charman)

7 Attitudes to Making

Unit 7.1 Drawing: Lines of Possibility

Claire Robins

Unit 7.2 Sculpture in secondary schools

Andy Ash

8 Critical Studies

Nicholas Addison

Unit 8.1 The purposes of critical studies

Unit 8.2 Exploring methods for investigating art and design: developing visual and aesthetic literacy

9 Inclusion in Art and design

Unit 9.1 Claire Penketh

Unit 9.2 John Johnson

10 Towards a Plural Curriculum

Unit 10.1 Enhanced Identities in Diversity

Paul Dash

Unit 10.2 Histories and canons as forms of identity

Nicholas Addison

Unit 10.3 Investigation and Diversity

Nicholas Addison

About the Author

Nicholas Addison is a lecturer at the University of the Arts, London, UK.


Lesley Burgess is a senior lecturer in art, design and museology at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.