ABSTRACT
The final chapter focuses on recent history and more specifically the period between 2010 and 2020. Beginning with the emergence of the coalition government in Britain, it outlines key changes in education policy in the context of austerity, examining the influence of neoliberal ideology that has resulted in a precarious state for disability and art education. The chapter begins with a brief overview of austerity measures in England after 2010, establishing this as a context for precarity. I then move on to examine the proposed reforms to education in England, which brought a renewed emphasis on individual productivity and a return to an increasingly utilitarian understanding of education. This discussion recognises important parallels between a reduction in access to the arts in education and a shift away from inclusion as sites of exclusion. However, a final section acknowledges precarity as a condition for recognising states of interdependence, enabling alliances to become possible and desirable. The chapter concludes with a brief presentation of work emerging from a union between art education and disability studies, offering lessons for their possible future association.
