All Outputs (6)

A reflection on dialogic diving boards and decolonising school art: The African mask project (2023)
Journal Article
Grant, W., Richards, M., Steward, R., & Whelan, J. (2023). A reflection on dialogic diving boards and decolonising school art: The African mask project. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 42(4), 584-596. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12476

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)
Journal Article
Grant, W., & Kidwell, A. (2023). System change: The student teacher as agile curriculum designer. AD Magazine, 37, 12-13

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)
Journal Article
Grant, W., Walton, N., & Johnson, S. (2022). The curriculum challenge for art and design. AD Magazine, Spring(33), 14-15

Subject mentors: The secret service of art education (2020)
Journal Article
Grant, W. (2020). Subject mentors: The secret service of art education. AD Magazine, Spring(27), 21

Liberal ideals, postmodern practice: A working paradox for the future of secondary school art education in England? (2019)
Journal Article
Grant, W. (2020). Liberal ideals, postmodern practice: A working paradox for the future of secondary school art education in England?. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 39(1), 56-68. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12228

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)
Journal Article
Grant, W. (2017). Art > Teacher. AD Magazine, Spring(18), 30-31