Debates in Art and Design Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with contemporary issues and developments in learning and teaching.

Introduction PART 1 SUSTAINABILITY 1. Arts Education to Come in the Anthropocene: The Cosmic Artesan 2. Beyond civics: Art and Design education and the making of active/activist citizens 3. Teaching as form: working with young people in refugee camps PART 2 GENEALOGIES 4. Inheritance, Disobedience and Speculation 5. There are no formal elements: why we need a historicist pedagogy of Art and Design 6. Speculative and symbolic forms of expression: new practices in community arts education PART 3 INCLUSION 7. Cultural Diversity, creativity and modernism 8. 'Closer to the skin' - whiteness and coloniality in 'white' art educators 9. Working towards Gender Spectrum: Gender Awareness in Finnish Comprehensive Schools 10. Social Class and Art & Design Education: a significant omission PART 4 SITES FOR LEARNING, SITES FOR ACTION 11. The art museum as a site for practice-based research 12. Expanding the gallery: curation, pedagogy and social action in community-based arts programmes 13. Good enough sculptures, Good enough teaching: Creating opportunities for play and physical exploration in the teaching and making of art.