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Art education and contemporary culture : Irish experiences, international perspectives / edited by Gary Granville.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2012.Description: 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781841505466 (hbk.)
  • 1841505463 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 372.5 GRA
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 372.5 GRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100439406

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Using Ireland as a model, Art Education and Contemporary Culture offers a comprehensive treatment of art education in primary and secondary schools, institutions of higher education, cultural institutions, and the diverse communities they serve. Gary Granville has brought together a diverse group of eminent art educators who, together, lay out the opportunities and challenges of art practice while paying close attention to relevant national policy. Rounding out the discussion are essays that locate the challenges and innovations of art education from in international perspective.

Includes bibliographical references.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction: Art and Design-Shifting the Paradigm of Education Reform?
  • 1 From Disegno to 'Epistemic Action': Drawings as Knowledge Generation
  • 2 Trajectory, Torque and Turn: Art and Design Education in Irish Post-Primary Schools
  • 3 The Irish Primary School Visual Arts Curriculum-Emerging Issues
  • 4 Defining, Redefining and De-Defining Art: Teachers Engaging with the Work of Artists in Irish Primary Schools
  • 5 'It's Easy to See which Side You Are On': Northern and Southern Irish Student Teachers' Reflections on Art and Identity
  • 6 Examining Visual Art in a High-Stakes Examination-Dilemmas and Possibilities
  • 7 Questions That Never Get Asked About Irish Art Education Curriculum Theory and Practice
  • 8 Artistic Formation for Collaborative Art Practice
  • 9 Eventual Education: The hedgeschoolproject
  • 10 Making a Show of Ourselves: Art, Community and the Pedagogics of Identity
  • 11 Art, Artists and the Public: Pedagogical Models for Public Engagement with Art and Artists in a Museum Context
  • 12 Holistic Art Education: Can the Learning Be the Learner?
  • 13 Mainstream and Margins in Art and Design Education: Adult Learners and Part-Time Provision in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin
  • 14 Emergent Outcomes: Inquiry, Qualitative Reasoning and the Aesthetics of Care
  • Notes on Contributors

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Gary Granville is professor and head of the Faculty of Education at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.

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