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How should a practitioner develop teaching strategies? Most artists and designers who teach have a healthy scepticism about educational research and theory, largely because it is generated by other more theory-based disciplines. They know that their basis for teaching is practice, tempered with a contemporary awareness of teaching and learning developments in relation to the profession. Teaching strategies are usually responsive to student learning strategies and so flexibility and adaptability of approach is essential, not to mention being incredibly exhausting! Increasingly teaching strategies are influenced by political and economic issues - more students, less funding, pressures on accommodation and resources, shorter course duration. To maintain and develop quality of provision for our students in the face of these pressures requires considerable creative thinking and action. It presents our profession with its greatest challenge and prompts us to adopt the kind of radical attitudes for which art education is infamous!

 

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