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How can research explore and advance our teaching and learning in art & design? Research - defined as accessible disciplined inquiry - is a powerful tool. Formal research provides us with a framework for inquiry, demands an accessible and rigorous methodology, which generates credibility of outcomes. Most importantly it demands communication and dissemination. The pedagogic innovations in Art & Design education have more often than not been invisible to the majority of other disciplines, and even to ourselves. At worst this results in a lack of external credibility, and an ongoing assumption that art education is all to do with inspiration and chance. Important factors though these may be, the communication of good teaching and learning practices is enabled by transparent methodology and appropriate publication. Our credibility as educators is enhanced by research.

 

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