Artmaking/Troublemaking: Creativity, Policy, and Leadership in Art Education

Abstract

This article addresses dimensions of contemporary policy that are influencing art teaching and learning. In the light of recent policy, and its challenges to creativity, art educators have been placed in the position where we need to make trouble through a re-definition and extension of professional responsibility. In response to negative impacts of policy, some art educators are enhancing student learning about the expressive, the imaginative, and the inspired through educational leadership that goes beyond traditional teaching.