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Articles from Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education

Learning environments and the role of feedback in sculpting lessons

<jats:p>At universities and academies, teaching and learning occur in a range of environments as art students continue to develop their skills. The aims of the study were to determine how art st...
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Reversing the design process in the introductory architectural design studio: The exploratory function of sketch modelling

<jats:p>This study investigated the exploratory potentials of sketch modelling in the introductory architectural design studio. It focused on the course ‘ARCH 102 Architectural Design Studio I...
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Project activities in the professional training of future designers (based on China’s educational experience)

<jats:p>This article presents the findings of the research into improving design professional training by means of project activities alongside art and multimedia technologies (MTs). It discusse...
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Drawing matters

<jats:p>As the faculties of literacy and numeracy are universally recognized as worthy of pedagogical nurturing, so this article champions an older, graphic articulacy: <jats:italic>visual...
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Noticing, curation, cultivation: Academic development leadership in the arts university

<jats:p>The curation of four ‘teaching exhibitions’ of pedagogic research outputs in a specialist arts university is presented as a case study of distributed leadership practice, with the le...
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Bibliometric analysis of review on curriculum reform of design history using CNKI database

<jats:p>There has been a significant gap in the comprehensive literature review of teaching reform of design history in the Chinese context. In order to bridge this gap, the literature bibliomet...
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Teaching practices in art and design: Experiment… experiment… and then experiment some more!

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Surveying the art history mystery: Student opinions of outcomes and value

<jats:p>Higher education professionals in art history agree that the downward trend of funding and enrolment will continue if changes to art history curriculum are not made that bring to light h...
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The dramatization of practice in design education: (Un)learning by doing through participant observation

<jats:p>Although ‘learning by doing’ is nowadays a standard practice in design education, there is not much reflexivity about what designers actually do with a ‘learning by doing’ approa...
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Learning environments and the role of feedback in sculpting lessons

<jats:p>At universities and academies, teaching and learning occur in a range of environments as art students continue to develop their skills. The aims of the study were to determine how art st...
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