What is it about?
To successfully implement Arts Education in Australian schools teachers need to develop a capacity for critically thinking about what they teach and how they teach. Simplistic solutions like searching for online lessons (such as those found on Pinterest-like sites) highlights issues about teachers' capacities to choose material that matches curriculum expectations. To teach the Arts well in schools, teachers need expertise coupled with critical thinking.
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Why is it important?
This research - based on the research of doctoral student, Sian Chapman and the article written in collaboration with Dr Peter Wright – gives insight into the difficulties and challenges that have persistently delayed or prevented the implementation of successive attempts to reform arts education in schools
Perspectives
I come to this research as a former Superintendent of the Arts in Western Australia and curriculum policy leader; and as a teacher educator at Murdoch University. My professional life has been focused on writing arts curriculum and implementing it.
Robin Pascoe
Murdoch University
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This page is a summary of: Criticality and connoisseurship in arts education: pedagogy, practice and ‘Pinterest©’, Education 3-13, November 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/03004279.2018.1544578.
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