This book offers a new framework for the analysis of teaching and
learning in the creative arts. It provides teachers with a vocabulary to
describe what they teach and how they do this within the creative arts.
Teaching and learning in this field, with its focus on the personal
characteristics of the student and its insistence on intangible
qualities like talent and creativity, has long resisted traditional
models of pedagogy. In the brave new world of high-stakes assessment and
examination-driven outcomes across the education system, this resistance
has proven to be a severe weakness and driven creative arts teachers
further into the margins. Instead of accepting this relegation teachers
of creative arts must set out to capture the distinctiveness of their
pedagogy. This book will allow teachers to transcend the opaque
metaphors that proliferate in the creative arts, and instead to argue
for the robustness and rigour of their practice.