Recent Developments and Emerging Problems in English Art Education

Field, Dick

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“…Most of this now takes place within universities and a small number of independent art colleges, but for most of the 20th century many smaller UK towns and cities had their own independent art school, predominantly serving local working-and lower-middle class populations. As only a few universities offered fine art degrees and tended to recruit their students from more privileged social groups, the art school came widely to be known as an accessible alternative to university, offering the 'masses' the viable prospect of practically-oriented craft and aesthetic education (Field, 1977, Frayling, 1987, Le Grice, 2011, Strand, 1987. While independent art schools flourished until the start of the 1970s, the last four decades have seen a significant number close down, or else become absorbed into the wider higher education system.…”

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The dance goes on forever? Art schools, class and UK higher education

Banks

Oakley

2015

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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For most of the 20 th century, the UK 'art school' was widely seen as an accessible alternative to University. In Art into Pop (1987), Simon Frith and Howard Horne revealed how this state-funded art and design training, linked to manufacturing industries and backed by relatively low or informal entry requirements, offered the prospect of social and economic uplift for hitherto marginalised working-class youth. More recently, however, while enrolments have expanded, art schools have become absorbed into conventional universities and the class profile, at least at the more prestigious colleges, has changed significantly.Simultaneously, art schools, together with other forms of higher education (HE) have been yoked to a broader public policy agenda of the 'creative economy' -one that often marginalises working-class people. This paper takes the changing nature of the art school as its starting point for discussion of class, higher education and the creative economy workforce.

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confidence: 99%