Critical Studies in Art and Design Education Book

	Preface	7
	Introduction	15
Ch. 1	Introduction : a short history of critical studies in art & design education	19
Ch. 2	Don't judge pianists by their hair	31
Ch. 3	Theoretical comments	43
Ch. 4	Curricular development in critical studies	55
Ch. 5	What do dragons think about in their dark lonely caves? : or critical studies : the importance of knowledge	67
Ch. 6	Universal themes : content and meaning in art and design education	85
Ch. 7	Critical discourse and art criticism instruction	95
Ch. 8	Critical enquiry in art in the primary school	105
Ch. 9	Art and worldview : escaping the formalist and collectivist labyrinth	119
Ch. 10	School students' responses to architecture : a practical studio project	139
Ch. 11	Visual culture art education : why, what and how?	151
Ch. 12	Out of this world : theme parks' contribution to a redefined aesthetics and educational practice	163
Ch. 13	Who's afraid of signs and significations? : defending semiotics in the secondary art and design curriculum	177
App. I	Breakdown of images from seven packs	187
App. II	The domains of subject knowledge in art and design	189
App. IIa	Ways into the object : object-based analysis	191
App. III	The inter-dependence and inter-relationship of 'external' or 'non-present' aspects of works of art and their 'internal' or 'visually present' features	195
App. IIIa	Semantic differential techniques	197
App. IV	React, research, respond, reflect - engaging students with visual form	201