Art education in a postmodern world : collected essays / edited by Tom Hardy.

Contributor(s):

Hardy, Tom

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Readings in art and design education seriesPublication details: Bristol : Intellect, 2006.Description: 166 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

1841501468
9781841501468

Subject(s):

Art -- Study and teaching

DDC classification:

372.5 HAR

Online resources:

Table of contents only

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	372.5 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000287632

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This volume presents a series of papers concerned with the interrelations between the postmodern and the present state of art and design education. Spanning a range of thematic concerns, the book reflects upon existing practice and articulates revolutionary prospects potentially viable through a shift in educative thinking.

Many of the essays pinpoint the stagnancy of teaching methods today and discuss the reductive parameters enforced by the current curriculum. The radical tone that echoes through the entire series of papers is unmistakable. Throughout the book, postmodern theory informs the polemical debate concerning new directions in educative practice. Contributors shed new light on a postmodern view of art in education with emphasis upon difference, plurality and independence of mind. Ultimately, the paper provides a detailed insight into the various concepts that shape and drive the contemporary art world and expands the debate regarding the impression of postmodern thinking in art education.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Acknowledgements (p. 5)
Preface (p. 6)
Introduction: Nailing Jelly: Art Education in a Postmodern World (p. 7)
Chapter 1 A Manifesto for Art in Schools (p. 17)
Chapter 2 Nick Stanley and Sarat Maharaj: A Discussion (p. 27)
Chapter 3 Censorship in Contemporary Art Education (p. 33)
Chapter 4 Post-it Culture: Postmodernism and Art and Design Education (p. 45)
Chapter 5 The Trouble with Postmodernism (p. 57)
Chapter 6 Postmodern Feminisms: Problematic Paradigms (p. 67)
Chapter 7 The Knowing Body: Art as an Integrative System of Knowledge (p. 77)
Chapter 8 Postmodernism and the Art Curriculum: A New Subjectivity (p. 91)
Chapter 9 Challenges to Art Education from Visual Culture Studies (p. 99)
Chapter 10 Who's Afraid of Signs and Significations? Defending Semiotics in the Secondary Art and Design Curriculum (p. 113)
Chapter 11 On Sampling the Pleasures of Visual Culture: Postmodernism and Art Education (p. 125)
Chapter 12 A Critical Reading of the National Curriculum for Art in the Light of Contemporary Theories of Subjectivity (p. 137)
Chapter 13 Assessment in Educational Practice: Forming Pedagogised Identities in the Art Curriculum (p. 147)
Notes on contributors (p. 159)
Index (p. 163)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Tom Hardy has worked as an art teacher in secondary schools for 23 years and has led art departments in inner-city, mixed, single sex, and selective schools. He is currently head of art and design at North London Collegiate School and sits on the council of the National Society for Education in Art and Design representing London and the home counties.