ABSTRACT
Contemporary art practice and teaching are no longer tied to craft specifics and the mysteries of individual media. Conceptual activity and practices of research and development are at the core of art and media education. The notion of artistic research seems to acknowledge art activity as a fusion of creative and critical elements. The notion of “theory” employed in creative arts research and pedagogy refers to the importation of general sociological concepts, models of mass communication process and forms of cultural analysis into the fields of media, communication and cultural studies. In the case of the creative arts, the focus is often on the basis of aesthetic judgements. The couplet creative arts and media acknowledge a common field of professional and educational practices concerned with invention and creation. A generation of creative arts students are being encouraged by tutors committed to constructivist learning approaches to experiment with reflective journals, mind maps, task-oriented iterative models and self and peer evaluations.
