Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School is the key text for all those preparing to become art and design teachers in secondary school. It explores a range of approaches to teaching and learning, and provides a conceptual and practical framework for understanding the diverse nature of art and design in the secondary school curriculum.
Written by experts in the field, it aims to inform and inspire, challenge orthodoxies and encourage a freshness of vision. It provides support and guidance for learning and teaching in art and design, suggesting strategies to motivate and engage pupils in making, discussing and evaluating visual and material culture.
This fourth edition has been comprehensively updated and re-structured in light of the latest theory, research and policy in the field and includes new chapters exploring diversity, identity and inclusion, attitudes to making and teaching as an artistic practice.
Essential topics include:
Ways of learning in art and design Teaching as an artistic practice Planning for teaching and learning Diversity and inclusion Sustainable design Assessment and examinations Critical studies Professional development in the gallery
Supporting each chapter are suggestions for further reading and tasks designed to encourage you to reflect critically on your practice.
Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School addresses issues for all student teachers and mentors on initial teacher education courses in Art and Design. It is also of relevance and value to teachers in schools with designated responsibility for supervision.
1 Introduction Nicholas Addison and Lesley Burgess 2 Teaching as Artist Practice Henry Ward 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 Unit 3.2 theories of learning and their implications for art and design Unit 3.3 activity theory; (Victoria Kinsella) Unit 3.4 experiential learning Unit 3.5 affect and the aesthetic Unit 3.6 language, motivation and learning Unit 3.7 thinking through art: the social body mind map; (Dean Kenning) Unit 3.8 enabling learning: transforming subject knowledge into pedagogy 4 Planning for Learning and Teaching Carol Wild Unit 4.1 Curriculum Planning Unit 4.2 Practice in ITE Art and design 5 Assessment and Examinations in Art and Design John Steers, Nicholas Addison Unit 5.1 Reconsidering assessment for learning in art and design (John Steers) Unit 5.2 Art and design examinations (Nicholas Addison) Unit 5.4 The Necessity of Assessment (Nicholas Addison) 6 Sustainable Design: Design can save the world Helen Charman and Holly Burton Unit 6.1 Sustainable design: design can change the world Unit 6.2 Sustainable Design in Practice 7 Attitudes to Making Dennis Atkinson, Jennifer Blunden and Claire Robins, Bill Leslie Unit 7.1 Children’s Drawing Practices (Dennis Atkinson) Unit-7.2 Writing Matters (Jennifer Blunden and Claire Robins) Unit 7.2 Collaborative, Experimental Approaches to Sculpture (Bill Leslie) 8 Diversity Tanveer Ahmed and Jane Trowell; Alan Cusak; Tabitha Millet; Claire Penketh Unit 8.1 Whiteness in the art and design classroom (Tanveer Ahmed and Jane Trowell) Unit 8.2 Conversations, Conflict and Vulnerability in the Art and Design Room (Alan Cusak) Unit 8.3 Queering LGBTQ+ policy in UK art and design education (Tabitha Millet) Unit 8.4 Special Educational Needs and Disability (Claire Penketh) 9 Critical Studies Neil Walton; Paul Dash; Sylvia Theuri Unit 9.1 Critical Studies and Art History (Neil Walton) Unit 9.2 Enhanced Identities: Critical Study and Diversity (Paul Dash) Unit 9.3 Student Identities in Art and Design Education (Sylvia Theuri) 10 Professional Development in the Gallery Emily Pringle and Maddy Gilliam Unit 10.1 Professional Development in the Gallery
Nicholas Addison is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. Lesley Burgess is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK.
