IN-BETWEEN PRACTICE AND ART WORLDS: Studio Learning in the University Art School

Abstract

The creative ecology of the Australian university studio is a significant issue in higher education because of the massification of numbers, research into widening participation, and the recent turn to entrepreneurship and the enterprise in creative industry education. Before the Dawkins reforms in the 1990’s autonomous art schools were common; now most institutions are under academic university governance. Creative practice in higher education, though intimately and intricately connected to creativity, assumes the outcomes of the learning and teaching approaches by educators and students are “creative” (Thomas, 2013). In entangled learning and teaching relations, this may not necessarily be..