ABSTRACT
In planning a journey forward these authors necessarily need to look back, to take stock of where arts education has come from, if nothing else, to prevent repeating the mistakes of the past. This is the starting point for Francis Prendiville’s article on ‘Teacher in Role’, which makes a strong plea for the return of feelings, values and different ways of understanding into the current curriculum. He uses the key phrase ‘to contextualise learning’ and suggests an important way to do this through the teaching of drama. Not surprisingly, this is also a central concept within Rod Taylor’s article on visual arts and one which I shall return to in this editorial.
