ABSTRACT

Some educationalists look at art, craft, and design as three distinct subjects, and in the past many teachers taught ‘art’ and then they taught ‘craft’. It is questionable as to what they thought of as ‘design’—which is a fundamental component of both art and craft-although this aspect is considered today to be some kind of new subject which must be taught as a discrete discipline. In this book I intend to place these three aspects together under the umbrella of ‘art’ so that it is easier for me to write about and, I trust, easier for my readers to understand. I shall, of course, refer to all three individually from time to time, and the fourth aspect, ‘appreciation’, will also be discussed.