Searching for the ethos of a lost art school.

Winter, Judith

Abstract

This search is motivated by an abiding belief in the possibilities of art schools. It is a response to many conversations over recent years around the future of art education and the significant role it has played in weaving the social fabric. I contend that the art school environment has been particularly potent in times of crisis and uncertainty. I hope to show how its ethos and pedagogic principles have been altered in the context of political, social and regulatory changes over the last century. Whilst I begin by lending my voice to all those who defend the philosophy of education more broadly, or who seek to reclaim the values of the civic university, my primary concern is to reignite some significant debates about the divergent philosophical traditions of both the democratic art school and the civic university, and to show why they matter for our collective futures.

Citation

WINTER, J. 2022. Searching for the ethos of a lost art school. In Ingold, T. (ed.) Knowing from the inside: cross-disciplinary experiments with matters of pedagogy. London: Bloomsbury Academic [online], chapter 8, pages 165-188. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350217171.ch-008

• Online Publication Date: Dec 31, 2022
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2022
• Deposit Date: May 24, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 1, 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Pages: 165-188
• Book Title: Knowing from the inside: cross-disciplinary experiments with matters of pedagogy
• Chapter Number: 8
• ISBN: 9781350217140
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350217171.ch-008
• Keywords: Art education; Art schools; Higher education; Universities
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1669384