The Benefits of Art, Craft and Design Education in Schools: A Rapid Evidence Review

Professor Pat Thomson and Dr Liam Maloy, School of Education, The University of Nottingham are the authors.

The Art, Craft and Design Rapid Evidence Review (RER) is a survey of published scholarly literature on art, craft and design in education.

The RER is designed to support our All-Party Parliamentary Group for Art, Craft and Design in Education.

The review search resulted in 463 titles and asks the following questions and foci:

  • What is Art, Craft and Design Education?
  • The context for teaching Art, Craft and Design
  • The benefits of Art, Craft and Design Education
  • Art, Craft and Design Learning:

   Being and Becoming

   Transfer of Art, Craft and Design Learning

   Pathways

   Wellbeing

Download the Review.

 

About the authors: Dr Pat Thomson PhD PSM FAcSS FRSA is Professor of Education in the School of Education, The University of Nottingham; Dr Liam Maloy PhD is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, The University of Nottingham.