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Initial teacher education as a dialogic space for agile art curriculum design (2024)
Journal Article

In this article we draw on our positionality as teacher educator and student teacher to reflect on initial art teacher education as a forum for novel disciplinary curriculum design. We describe how, without new system thinking, much taught school art... Read More about Initial teacher education as a dialogic space for agile art curriculum design.

A reflection on dialogic diving boards and decolonising school art: The African mask project (2023)
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In this paper, four colleagues working in teacher education reflect on a conversation. The conversation in question was a tangible discussion documented through frequent and purposeful email exchange, exploring traditionalist school art curricula thr... Read More about A reflection on dialogic diving boards and decolonising school art: The African mask project.

System change: The student teacher as agile curriculum designer (2023)
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Since at least art educator Arthur Efland’s (1976) influential description of a standard ‘school art style’, art and design curricula has been criticised as perennially disconnected from contemporary artistic practice, the creative industries, and th... Read More about System change: The student teacher as agile curriculum designer.

The curriculum challenge for art and design (2022)
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Subject mentors: The secret service of art education (2020)
Journal Article

Liberal ideals, postmodern practice: A working paradox for the future of secondary school art education in England? (2019)
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Modern liberal rationales continue to inform a majority of teaching and learning in English art classrooms. In a postmodern Western society increasingly informed by neoliberal globalisation this approach begins to look either like an anachronism or a... Read More about Liberal ideals, postmodern practice: A working paradox for the future of secondary school art education in England?.

Art > Teacher (2017)
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