'A kind of exchange' : learning from art and design teaching

Shreeve, Alison and Sims, Ellen and Trowler, Paul (2010) 'A kind of exchange' : learning from art and design teaching. Higher Education Research and Development, 29 (2). pp. 125-138. ISSN 0729-4360

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Abstract

This paper analyses pedagogic practices in four fields in art and design higher education. Its purpose is to identify the characteristics that might be called signature pedagogies in these subjects and to identify their role in student centred learning. In a time of growing economic pressure on higher education and in the face of tendencies for normative practices brought about through mechanisms such as quality assurance procedures the authors seek to articulate and recognise the issues relating to spaces and pedagogies from this discipline that might be made to wider debates about learning in the sector.