This article explores how lens-based practices can articulate and respond to art education phenomena. The affective turn in education and appearances of education in artists' film and moving-image are explored to help identify different appearances and experiences of art education pedagogy. Interspersed by clip descriptions from students and my…

While creative subjects such as music, art and film have been deprioritised and defunded under the United Kingdom's Conservative Government, the social and pedagogical utility of their study, particularly in areas of economic deprivation and within neurodivergent cohorts, is clear. This article draws forth these issues in a conversation with Del…

Filmmaking education has never been firmly integrated into schooling and in past years has suffered from cuts to funding for formal and non-formal arts education and youth work. It continues to exist only by drawing on creative industry and cultural consumption practices as well as state funding. In this paper, we explore the filmmaking education…

This article presents the findings of a cross-disciplinary project between BA (Hons) Interior Design, Creative Multimedia and Film and Media Studies at a large Metropolitan University in the North of England. The collaboration was part of Unit X, a faculty-wide credit-bearing initiative to enable better collaboration across art and design courses.…

Elite schools around the world aspire to produce perfect students and yet there are always obstacles to this perfection being achieved. In this paper, we suggest that this process of perfectionism and obstruction can best be understood using a methodology that looks to the creative arts, rather than the usual social science orthodoxies. Our focus…

A course to make college level geography students (London School of Economics) aware of the nature of film and television and to indicate the importance of these media to the geographer is described. The course emphasizes activities and involvement so that students can develop judgments about how film and television shape reality. (KC)

Calls for intellectual training very different from that which produces the traditional British literary intellectual. Asks that higher education produce critical intellectuals of a practical kind. Shows how film study provides practical knowledge with an assessment of the production of knowledge and the realm of thought itself. (PD)

Election of a Labour government in Britain has seen the emergence of a new educational discourse blending certain cultural, economic, and social themes. Focusing on two government reports on cultural and nonprint media influences, this article identifies discourse components and explores their deployment in arguments for educational change.…

Focusing on progressivism, the author attacks the way in which teaching media was seen as an opportunity for students to give vent to their own experiences. Calls for practical work which concentrates on cognitive rather than experiential development. (PD)