A Practical Guide to Teaching Art and Design in the Secondary School

Not only will this guide be essential reading for all trainee and early career Art and Design teachers, it is also a book for any educator wishing to review or reboot their Art and Design expertise. All twenty chapters dig deeply but accessibly into the essential issues and approaches of teaching our subject today. It is packed with pertinent research and practice as well as provocations and tasks to encourage reflective practice.

The authors want to create ‘a curriculum of curiosity and hope’. This book is for every art educator who shares this important ambition.

Sophie Leach, Deputy General Secretary, NSEAD

Andy Ash is an Associate Professor at UCL IOE. His expertise and research include Art Education, Contemporary Art, Galleries & Museums, Teaching & Learning, Visual Art Practice as Research and Initial Teacher Education. He is the President (elect) of NSEAD and InSEA Chair for the European Regional Council.

Peter Carr is a past PGCE Subject Leader Art and Design at Birmingham City University. Prior to working in Initial Teacher Training, he taught in secondary schools and in FE. He is engaged in research on pupils’ affective perceptions of school design.