Rebekka Kill Leeds Metropolitan University

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Rebekka KillLeeds Metropolitan University

• Travelling, Tinkering and Making the Kinds of
  Meanings We Really Want To Mean
• Writing PAD in Context.

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Prior to 1960sconformity, to a misconceived
sense of belonging to a classical tradition,
(and) to a belief that art was essentially a
technical skillPost 1960sa devotion to
individual creative development(Thistlewood
1992 152)
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The first Coldstream Report 1960
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Art and Design Education should enable the
student to understand the relationship between
his own activities and the culture within which
he livesand should be an integral part of
the students art and design education
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this gratuitous element of Fine artlittle
more than the extraction of students from their
main studies(Jones 197369)
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The drawing of art education into the education
mainstreamhas added urgency even a touch of
hysteria- to the debate about the subject(Piper
197313)
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Writing PADbridging the gap between
studio-based practices and academic theory that
frequently characterises Higher Education in Art
and Design
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Writing PAD Surveythe main influence can be
summed up as studio practice informing writing
practice, as well as the two practices coming
closer together in many ways.few of the
practices described in the survey are
revolutionary, but rather they represent shifts
that have taken place over the last decade
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Situated literaciesreading and writing only
make sense when studied in the context of social
and cultural practices of which they are a part
(Gee 2000180)writing practices are already
firmly divided up as either right or wrong,
adequate or inadequate, successful or
unsuccessful, dominant or marginal.(Pardoe
2000150)
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Multiple Literaciesour theories and teaching
of literacy have long been too
logocentricenable them to produce the kind of
meanings they really want to mean(Lemke 1997)
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Bricolage change is because the system gets
people to be continuously tinkering, looking for
ways of doing things better(Saunders et al.
2003 3)