A History of Disability and Art Education

Claire Penketh is Head of Disability Studies and Core member of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University. She is Principal Editor of the International Journal of Art and Design Education and author of A Clumsy Encounter: Dyspraxia and Drawing. She is also co-editor of Disability, Avoidance and the Academy along with her colleague Professor David Bolt. Claire has published a number of special issues on the topic of disability studies and art education including Drawingability for Drawing Research Theory and Practice with Doris Rohr, The Biopolitics of Art Education for the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies with Jeff Adams and a thematic Issue on Disability Justice: Decentering Colonial Knowledge, Centering Decolonial Epistemologies for Research in Arts and Education with Alexandra Allen and Alice Wexler. She is a member of the National Society for Education in Art and Design Education (NSEAD) and chair of their special interest group on Anti-ableist Pedagogy.

Part I – Historicising Disability and Art Education. 1.Crafting Ocularnormativity: The Dominance of Vision. 2.Curating Deafness: Aesthetics and the Politics of Display. 3.Erasing Identities: Eugenics and IQ. 4.Child Art: The Making of Normative Youth. 5.Psychology: Troubling the Art-Education-Therapy Nexus. Part II – Recent Histories. 6.Containing Curricular: Regulation and Agency. 7.Modelling Diversity: (Dis)Placing Contemporary Art Practice. 8.Crisis and Precarity: Austere Times for Disability and Art Education. x.Epilogue: Advancing an Anti-Ableist Pedagogy.