Open AccessA Dual Inheritance: The Politics of Educational Reform and PhDs in Art and Design
Author(s) -
Candlin Fiona
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of art & design education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-5949
pISSN - 0260-9991
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5949.00279
Subject(s) - visual arts education , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , politics , dual (grammatical number) , sociology , art and design , work (physics) , higher education , pedagogy , mathematics education , political science , visual arts , psychology , art , law , engineering , the arts , mechanical engineering , literature , gene , biochemistry , chemistry
This paper examines the changing relationship of art practice to academic research in higher education since 1960. Whereas art practice was often conceived of as divorced from any notion of academic or theoretical work in the post 1960 art school, by the 1990s the ground had changed to such a degree that it was possible to pursue doctoral study in art practice. This emergence of practice‐based PhDs can be considered as part of a larger shift in art education and its acceptance of theory.