Looking-Out Project

Looking-Out Project

DCMS

ADM-HEA

Submission of draft reports by 30 Sept. Report to be edited by D.

Clews

Stepping-Out/Looking-Out

Project Report Publication Feb 2010

Questionnaire - Department

Heads

Questionnaire: Teacher-

Practitioners

Case Studies

Focus Groups

Professional Profiles

Stepping-Out Project

Fund

Stepping-Out Project

Draft reports

submitted for editing into final

report

Project Report

Publication (Downloadable from ADM-

HEA)

‘10x10’ Artswork@Bath Spa University

‘Balancing Work and

Study’CEMP

Bournemouth

‘Co-Working’ University of Brighton

‘The Reflexive Practitioner’ Nottingham

Trent

‘Visiting Design Professionals’ Design Skills

Alliance

HEFCE

Arts Council England

CETLDBrighton

CHEAD

Skillset

Design Council

ADM-HEA

The Projects

• The Reflexive Practitioner– School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University– Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, Kingston University

• 10x10– Artswork, Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning in the

creative industries, Bath Spa University

• Visiting Design Practitioners– Creative Manchester– Manchester Metropolitan University

• Co-Working– Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton

• Balancing Work and Study– Centre for Excellence In Media Practice, University of Bournemouth

The Reflexive PractitionerNottingham Trent University, Kingston University

• Enquired into the value of professional practitioners in the the curriculum

• Used qualitative research involving semi-structured interviews with practitioners teaching fine art

• Additional research involved PGCert design student interviews

• Created a website with videos of the interviews, dividing the questions into debatable themes

• The website acts as a growing resource to link the debate on artists in education with verbatim accounts of artist-educator experiences

10x10Artswork, BathSpa University

• Held a series of workshops designed for teacher-practitioners

• These were designed to develop a body of material and explore professional development needs

• Employed different techniques, such as drawing and performance, with different facilitators

• Offered ‘non-HE’ spaces in which to see things differently

• Examined the ways that education and practice educate and inform each other

Visiting Design ProfessionalsCreative Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan

University

• Arose from a UK Design Skills Alliance proposal to support the development and delivery of industry-relevant curricula

• Examined the nature and extent of design professionals’ interaction with education

• Identified a range of companies, individuals and organisations in north-west England with and without involvement in art education

• Recorded interviews investigating perceived barriers to and benefits of such involvement

• Focus group discussion identified fruitful areas for collaboration and produced recommendations for both industry and HE institutions

Co-WorkingUniversity of Brighton

Balancing Work and StudyCEMP, University of Bournemouth