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: the latest policy and initiatives in secondary art educationthe concepts; skills and dispositions that can be developed through art education tensions inherent in developing the inclusive Art and Design classroompartnerships across the visual arts sector creativity in the Art and Design curriculumvisual art and globalisationestablishing the significance of lsquo;Designrsquo;art practice as educational research.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 educatorsrsquo; 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.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. How open-air public spaces become sought-after commissionsBy Midwest Book ReviewHere Comes The Sun: Architecture And Public Space In Twentieth-Century European Culture focuses on developments in Northern Europe in terms of the planning of the "spaces between"; the connective tissue of the modern city in the form of parks; public squares; open-air museums; promenades; lidos; and other public leisure facilities; including cemeteries. Educator; activist and author Ken Worpole demonstrates how open-air public spaces become sought-after commissions and projects for many early modernist architects. The reader is provided examples of utopian experiments such as Port Sunlight and Bournville; and discussions of the influence of Ruskin and William Morris. A very highly recommended contribution to urban planning studies history and reference collections; Here Comes The Sun shows how town planning became an internationalist; modernizing movement and an important; essential aspect of urban and cultural policy development and implementation today.