Carmen Castillo Moriano, Alfredo Cuervo Pando, Jose Juan de Leon
{"title":"Printmaking as a Propaedeutic Space in Contemporary Art Education","authors":"Carmen Castillo Moriano, Alfredo Cuervo Pando, Jose Juan de Leon","doi":"10.1111/jade.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.70030","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the relevance and formative value of printmaking within contemporary higher art education. Through a historical and conceptual review, it analyses the shift of printmaking from industrial and reproductive functions toward a space of artistic exploration, material enquiry and pedagogical reflection. The study argues that printmaking serves as a propaedeutic discipline that helps students understand the relationships among idea, material, time and process in artistic creation. Drawing on contributions from William M. Ivins Jr., Walter Benjamin, John Dewey, Elliot W. Eisner, Stanley William Hayter, María del Mar Bernal and Etienne Wenger, as well as experiences at the University of the West of England, the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the article highlights the print studio as a setting for exploratory and project‐based learning. In the digital era, it remains a space where technical, conceptual and ethical development converge.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"267 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148385882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review of the Evolution of Research on the Size of Children's Drawings in Relation to Their Expressed Emotion About the Depicted Topic: 1988–2023","authors":"Elpida Kypraiou, Fotini Bonoti","doi":"10.1111/jade.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.70027","url":null,"abstract":"This narrative review examines the relationship between the size of children's drawings and their expressed emotions about the depicted subjects, focusing on research conducted between 1988 and 2023. The studies are presented chronologically to demonstrate how researchers have progressively addressed methodological challenges identified in earlier work. Some of them reached statistically significant results that connected drawing size with expressed emotion, while others did not. They attributed these results mainly to the mechanism of attraction of positive emotions that lead to the enlargement of the drawn objects or repulsion of negative emotions with the opposite effect and secondarily to pictorial conventions. These conflicting results across studies are presented, and interpretations and implications for art education are proposed. The review highlights that professionals such as art educators should take the size parameter into account with particular care, taking into consideration some additional factors such as the expression of emotions by the children themselves.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"139 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147755106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artists in Nursery Schools: Enabling Free Play and Self‐Expression Through the Arts","authors":"Ainhoa Gómez‐Pintado, Ana Luisa López‐Vélez","doi":"10.1111/jade.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.70024","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research was to analyse the presence of artists in nursery schools by means of two proposals to promote free play and self‐expression for children between one and 3 years‐old and their families. Researchers compiled evidence from the perspective of three <jats:italic>atelieristas</jats:italic> and other participating adults, through interviews and group discussions, graphic documentation and observation notes. The results shed light on the definition of the preliminary approach and the goals set by the artists in order to enable free play and self‐expression; the identification and description of their changing roles; and delved further into the attitudes and skills to carry out these experiences. The main conclusions highlight their significant artistic mediation work when they encourage self‐expression, experimenting and free play for children and their families, and the importance of the artists' sensitive attitude and active listening. They contribute to the ongoing training of these professionals, the teachers and even families, by providing keys for improvement.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147478244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Johnston, Carly Bagelman, Marlene Wylie, Yesid Paez Cubides, Emma Arya‐Manesh, Claire Penketh
{"title":"Art Education and Peace: Exploring the Empathetic Object‐ive","authors":"John Johnston, Carly Bagelman, Marlene Wylie, Yesid Paez Cubides, Emma Arya‐Manesh, Claire Penketh","doi":"10.1111/jade.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.70003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147380783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagining—and (Re)Imaging—Peace Through Art Education","authors":"Emma Arya‐Manesh, Claire Penketh","doi":"10.1111/jade.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.70008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147380782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doing Autoethnography, Teaching Autoethnography as a White Woman Architect‐Educator‐Researcher in South Africa","authors":"Sandra Felix","doi":"10.1111/jade.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.70021","url":null,"abstract":"This autoethnographic study lies at the intersection of architectural, teaching and research practice through the lens of an architect‐teacher‐researcher working in post‐Apartheid South Africa. The research traces a shift from unconscious design practice to a more conscious, critical and careful practice through practice‐based design research methods of drawing, photography and writing. Each method reveals a different tacit knowledge of design practice, including institutional influence and the role of past lived spatial experience. In doing so a feminist critical spatial practice was sought. Through doing and teaching autoethnography, the architect‐teacher‐researcher critically situated the self within a multicultural postcolonial educational context. Thus, the politics of whiteness was unpacked and pedagogical strategies of engaged listening, silence, collaborative, participatory and student‐centred learning were explored. Autoethnography validated diverse worldviews and ways of seeing and being in the design studio thus contributing to the researcher's and students' practice becoming more conscious, critical and careful within the post‐Apartheid architectural practice and education context.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146778074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aesthetic Dissensus as Public Pedagogy: Exploring Contemporary Art that Counters Whiteness and Far‐Right Ideologies in Mainstream Digital Spaces","authors":"Fiona O'Rourke","doi":"10.1111/jade.12620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12620","url":null,"abstract":"Far‐right politics has re‐emerged as a significant force in mainstream Western liberal democracies, such as the United Kingdom and the United States, where it has been linked to rising levels of racial discrimination and violence that threaten to erode the fragile ideals of democratic peace within these contexts. In a 'post‐truth' era, digital aesthetics that blur the line between extremist propaganda and innocuous entertainment are being used to mainstream far‐right ideologies, including Whiteness and White racial supremacy, through sites of public pedagogy, particularly social media platforms, where they are normalised as ‘commonsense’. In response, progressive scholars have called for the mainstreaming of peaceful civic dissent in Western liberal democracies to counter the far‐right. Yet this call unfolds in a context in which democratic governments frame peaceful civic dissent—such as protests against racialised inequalities—as threats to democratic peace, rather than acts that defend democracy. As physical dissent faces heightened surveillance, digital platforms offer alternative, albeit contested, spaces for political action. However, there is a dearth of research on how digital platforms are being used to mobilise dissent against pernicious racial ideologies of Whiteness that have become normalised as ‘commonsense’ in Western liberal democracies, including those that operate through far‐right digital aesthetics. This paper addresses this gap by analysing how innovative contemporary art practices employ digitally mediated forms of aesthetic dissensus to stage and mobilise dissent against such ‘commonsense’ racial ideologies of Whiteness within and through mainstream social media platforms. I argue that such dissent does not threaten democratic ideals, such as peace, but instead sustains them through emancipatory public pedagogies that challenge racially inequitable norms and progressively reconfigure what counts as ‘commonsense’ within democratic life.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146134329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metaphors as Critical Pedagogy: Guiding Creative Thinking in Novice Design and Non‐Design Foundation Year University Students in the United Arab Emirates","authors":"Maryjane Nolan‐Bock, Hiba Hassan","doi":"10.1111/jade.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.70019","url":null,"abstract":"This article evaluates the use of metaphors as a technique for prompting creative thinking in design education, specifically within the context of a university pre‐entry foundation course, ‘Introduction to Design’ in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Both the student transition to higher education and global standardization practices in higher education present challenges when fostering creative thinking. With metaphorical thinking exercises and a mind‐wandering method, students are encouraged to pursue creative connections with disparate topics, moving beyond literalism to more conceptual and imaginative ideas. The study's methodological framework is grounded in an art‐based action research approach, which positions the lecturer as a reflective practitioner and encourages a participatory role from students. Our critical reflection suggests that while students generally respond positively to a metaphorical teaching technique, a portion struggle with the transition from rote or standardized learning to creative ideation. Despite these challenges, the metaphor technique along with mind wandering present distinct pedagogical value, particularly in promoting creative thinking processes that enable students to articulate creative ideas visually. As an accessible critical pedagogy, the metaphor technique supports a participatory approach not only for design education but other creative, artistic, and academic contexts. More broadly, we argue that metaphor exercises can help with a wider educational mission of moving towards an environment that privileges creativity as an intrinsic, rather than merely functional, performative capacity.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146070175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating Arts Into Nature Education for Sustainable Rural Development","authors":"Su Yiqiu, Suhardi Maulan","doi":"10.1111/jade.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.70014","url":null,"abstract":"Rural environments offer abundant ecological and cultural resources that support the development of nature education, but practical challenges persist in fully utilising these local resources. Building on this context, the study examines an arts‐integrated nature education curriculum implemented in Jianlou Village, Hunan Province, to explore how artistic practices can enrich rural nature‐based learning. Using qualitative analysis, 49 documents—including teaching plans, student artworks, field observation notes and reflective journals—were coded and analysed using NVivo. Research indicates that art can be integrated into three key domains: site preparation, instructional approaches and curriculum materials. This integration deepens learners' engagement with the rural environment, enhances the quality of nature education activities and advances local educational development. The framework provides theoretical insights and practical guidance for curriculum innovation, teacher professional development and the advancement of art‐integrated nature education in rural communities.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"214 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146042638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mokuhanga Technique Today: An Exploration of Traditional Japanese Art in the Artistic and Educational Context","authors":"Macarena Moreno Moreno","doi":"10.1111/jade.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.70016","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the <jats:italic>Mokuhanga</jats:italic> technique, a traditional Japanese printmaking method, and its contemporary evolution. This article explores the history of this discipline, its technical uniqueness, and its resurgence in the current context, with particular attention to its development in Spain. The main research questions are: How has <jats:italic>Mokuhanga</jats:italic> evolved in the Spanish context? And what impact could its integration into higher education have on students' creative development? Through a qualitative approach combining interviews with specialised artists, analysis of representative works, and a review of the current artistic landscape, this study investigates the creative and technical processes that define <jats:italic>Mokuhanga</jats:italic> 's distinctiveness. Furthermore, the impact of integrating <jats:italic>Mokuhanga</jats:italic> into higher education is analysed, highlighting its cultural relevance and its contribution to enriching the academic environment. The findings indicate that <jats:italic>Mokuhanga</jats:italic> revitalises contemporary printmaking as an interdisciplinary medium for artistic experimentation and that its inclusion in educational settings fosters interdisciplinary experimentation and the creative development of future artists, while revitalising print processes.","PeriodicalId":516559,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Art & Design Education","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145961795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}