Art Education 11-18: Meaning, Purpose and Direction

Description

The second edition of the fascinating collection of essays on teaching art in secondary schools, boasting a new chapter on visual culture as well as extensive material on the changes that have occurred in this area since 2000. What kind of art would we like school and college students to produce? What kind of art do we want them to engage with? What is the process of this engagement? How should we organize the processes? By asking fundamental questions such as these, Richard Hickman and his team of contributors illustrate the new possibilities for art education in the twenty-first century and draw out the implications for classroom practice - making Art Education 11-18 the definitive guide to the subject in the postmodern era.

Richard Hickman is Reader in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK, where he is a Fellow of Homerton College.

"This should be required reading for all those who aspire to teach art in our secondary schools and our colleges and universities." -- Arts & Activities, September 2005 '...Art Education 11-18 explores many excellent strategies for facilitating the advent of an innovative greatly improved curriculum. A risk worth taking. -- Fiona McGregor * ESCalate *