ABSTRACT
This unit asserts that meaningful intercultural Art & Design education, must start with an interrogation of the attitudes embedded in Western traditions and world views, and not the appropriation of practices from other cultures which may be accessed periodically and treated as irrelevant ‘exotica’. Far from finding solutions to the (mis)representation of black cultures, peoples and traditions, teachers and educational authorities are trapped in structures which exclude such groups. The movement out of this culture of exclusion remains one of the most challenging issues in education and in society as a whole. In seeking to support this broad argument, some areas from which minority groups are excluded in popular and high culture are identified and solutions to this schism provided.
