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READINGS IN ART AND DESIGN EDUCATION SERIES CRITICAL STUDIES IN ART & DESIGN EDUCATION Edited by Richard Hickman intellect Critical Studies in Art & Design Education Edited by Richard Hickman Series editor: John Steers First Published in the UK in 2005 by Intellect Books, PO Box 862, Bristol BS99 1DE, UK First Published in the USA in 2005 by Intellect Books, ISBS, 920 NE 58th Ave. Suite 300, Portland, Oregon 97213-3786, USA Copyright ©2005 NSEAD All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1-84150-127-1 ISSN 1747-6208 Cover Design: Gabriel Solomons Copy Editor: Julie Strudwick Contents Preface John Steers 9 Acknowledgments 11 Notes on Authors 15 Introduction Richard Hickman 19 Chapter 1: Introduction: A Short History of Critical Studies in Art & Design Education Richard Hickman 31 Chapter 2: Don’t Judge Pianists by their Hair Arthur Hughes 43 Chapter 3: Theoretical Comments Leslie Perry 55 Chapter 4: Curricular Development in Critical Studies David Thistlewood 67 Chapter 5: What do Dragons Think About in their Dark Lonely Caves? Or Critical Studies: The Importance of Knowledge Alison Bancroft 85 Chapter 6: Universal Themes: Content and Meaning in Art and Design Education Rod Taylor Contents 3 7 95 Chapter 7: Critical Discourse and Art Criticism Instruction George Geahigan 105 Chapter 8: Critical Enquiry in Art in the Primary School Sue Cox 119 Chapter 9: Art and Worldview: Escaping the Formalist and Collectivist Labyrinth Lesley Cunliffe 139 Chapter 10: School Students’ Responses to Architecture: A Practical Studio Project Richard Hickman 151 Chapter 11: Visual Culture Art Education: Why, What and How? Paul Duncum 4 Critical Studies in Art & Design Education 163 Chapter 12: Out of this World: Theme Parks’ Contribution to a Redefined Aesthetics and Educational Practice Nick Stanley 177 Chapter 13: Who’s Afraid of Signs and Significations? Defending Semiotics in the Secondary Art and Design Curriculum Nicholas Addison Appendices 187 Appendix I: Breakdown of Images from Seven Packs (Alison Bancroft) 189 Appendix II: The Domains of Subject Knowledge in Art and Design (Nicholas Addison) 191 Appendix IIa: Ways into the Object: Object-based Analysis (Nicholas Addison) 195 Appendix III: The Inter-dependence and Inter-relationship of ‘External’ or ‘Non-present’ Aspects of Works of Art and their ‘Internal’ or ‘Visually Present’ Features (Leslie Cunliffe) 197 Appendix IIIa: Semantic Differential Techniques (Leslie Cunliffe) 201 Appendix IV: React, Research, Respond, Reflect - Engaging Students with Visual Form (Richard Hickman) 203 Index Contents 5 Preface This book is the first in a planned series of anthologies dealing with a range of issues in art and design education. Other titles in preparation include assessment and evaluation, histories of the subject and postmodernism. The primary - but not exclusive - sources of chapters are papers previously published in the [International] Journal of Art & Design Education and where appropriate these have been updated. It should be noted that references to the English National Curriculum Statutory Orders, etc., are to the version of the curriculum current at the time of the original publication. The National Society for Education in Art and Design is the leading n