ABSTRACT
In a comment from the floor at a conference on African Art and Criticism hosted by the Courtauld Institute in November 1996, artist and critic George Shire observed how in today’s post-colonial, postmodern world, ‘nobody lives a culturally one-dimensional life anymore’. Such an observation is particularly pertinent in the field of arts education, in which there is an increasing need for policy and practice in which is embedded the richly diverse ethnic backgrounds of Britain’s school-going community.
