Learning to teach art and design in the secondary school : a companion to school experience / edited by Nicholas Addison, Lesley Burgess.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School is established as the key text for all those preparing to become art and design teachers in the 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, to 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.

The third edition has been comprehensively updated and re-structured in light of the latest theory, research and policy in the field and includes new chapters surveying assessment and examinations, and exploring identity and diversity in art and design. Essential topics include:

Including suggestions for further reading and a range of tasks designed to encourage you to reflect critically on your practice, Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School addresses issues for student teachers and mentors on all initial teacher education courses in Art and Design. It will also be of relevance and value to teachers in school with designated responsibility for supervision.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Art and Design Teachers' Professional Development
• 3 Learning in Art and Design Education
• Unit 3.1 the relationship between learning and teaching
• 3.2 theories of learning and their implications for art and design
• 3.3 activity theory; (Victoria Kinsella)
• 3.4 experiential learning
• 3.5 affect and the aesthetic
• 3.6 language, motivation and learning
• 3.7 thinking through art: the social body mind map; (Dean Kenning)
• 3.8 enabling learning: transforming subject knowledge into pedagogy
• 4 Planning for Learning and Teaching
• Unit 4.1 Curriculum Planning
• Unit 4.2 Practice in ITE Art and design
• 5 Assessment and Examinations in Art and Design
• Unit 5.1 Overview of assessment: principles and practice
• Unit 5.2 Assessment in art and design
• Unit 5.3 Art and design examinations
• Unit 5.4 Reconsidering assessment for learning in art and design (John Steers)
• 6 Issues in Craft and Design Education
• Unit 6.1 Craft
• Unit 6.2 Design
• Unit 6.3 Sustainable design: design can change the world (Helen Charman)
• 7 Attitudes to Making
• Unit 7.1 Drawing: Lines of Possibility
• Unit 7.2 Sculpture in secondary schools
• 8 Critical Studies
• Unit 8.1 The purposes of critical studies
• Unit 8.2 Exploring methods for investigating art and design: developing visual and aesthetic literacy
• 9 Inclusion in Art and design
• Unit 9.1 Claire Penketh
• Unit 9.2 John Johnson
• 10 Towards a Plural Curriculum
• Unit 10.1 Enhanced Identities in Diversity
• Unit 10.2 Histories and canons as forms of identity
• Unit 10.3 Investigation and Diversity

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Nicholas Addison is a lecturer at the University of the Arts, London, UK.

Lesley Burgess is a senior lecturer in art, design and museology at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.