Arts education to come in the anthropocene : the cosmic artesan / Jan Jagodzinski -- Beyond civics : art and design education and the making of active/activist citizens / Pat Thompson and Christine Hall -- Teaching as form : working with young people in refugee camps / Morgan Tipping -- Inheritance, disobedience and speculation / Dennis Atkinson -- There are no formal elements : why we need a historicist pedagogy of art and design / Neil Walton -- Speculative and symbolic forms of expression : new practices in community arts education / David Rousell and Anna Hickey-Moody -- Cultural diversity, creativity and modernism / Rasheed Araeen -- 'Closer to the skin' - whiteness and coloniality in 'white' art educators / Jane Trowell -- Working towards gender spectrum : gender awareness in finnish comprehensive schools / Annina Souminen, Tiina Pusa and Verna Kuutti -- Social class and art & design education : a significant omission / Adrian Burgess and Lesley Burgess -- The art museum as a site for practice-based research / Emily Pringle -- Expanding the gallery : curation, pedagogy and social action in community-based arts programmes / Anton Franks -- Good enough sculptures, Good enough teaching : creating opportunities for play and physical exploration in the teaching and making of art / Bill Leslie.

"Debates in Art and Design Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with contemporary issues and developments in learning and teaching. This fully updated second edition introduces key issues, concepts and tensions in order to help art educators develop a critical approach to their practice in response to the changing fields of education and visual culture. Accessible, comprehensive chapters are designed to stimulate thinking and understanding in relation to theory and practice, and help art educators to make informed judgements by arguing from a position based on theoretical knowledge and understanding. Contributing artists, lecturers and teachers debate a wide range of issues including: the latest policy and initiatives in secondary art education; the concepts, skills and dispositions that can be developed through art education; tensions inherent in developing the inclusive Art and Design classroom; citizenship education within Art and Design teaching; new practices in community arts education; examining 'whiteness' in the sector. Debates in Art and Design Education is for all students and practising teachers interested in furthering their understanding of an exciting, ever-changing field, and supports art educators in articulating how the subject is a vital, engaging and necessary part of the twenty-first century curriculum"--