1st Edition

Co-operative Education, Politics, and Art Creative, Critical, and Community Resistance to Corporate Higher Education

Edited By Richard Hudson-Miles, Jackie Goodman Copyright 2025
268 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This timely and compelling volume furthers understandings of contemporary art education in international contexts and the position of alternative art colleges in relation to the neoliberal academy and arts economy.

Defining the concept of ‘co-operative education’ and articulating its centrality and relevance to the so-called alternative or autonomous art schools it examines, the book presents innovative explorations of its central topics such as art educator identities, the non-profitisation of arts studios, and the Anthropocene while drawing these into relation with important contemporary political and academic concerns such as decolonisation, feminism, and neoliberalism. Chapters showcase a range of international viewpoints, dialogues, and empirical research contributions from notable scholars, renowned artists, and experienced educators.

This book will be of use to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in education policy and politics, arts education, and higher education. Members of professional bodies such as art historians, critics, and curators may also find the volume of interest.

1. Introduction

Richard Hudson-Miles

 

Part 1: Co-operation

 

2. A Framework for Co-operative Higher Education: Beyond Public and Private

Mike Neary and Joss Winn

3. The Politics of Education or Education by Politics? Live Learning

Steve Hanson

4. Roundtable On Collaboration Between Mainstream and Alternative Art School: A Roundtable Discussion Between Members of The National Association of Fine Art Education

Members of the National Association of Fine Art Education

5. Exploring Perceived Identities Of Art Educators: Outsiders On The Inside And Alongside?

Andrew Middleton and Cilla Ross

 

Part 2: Contexts

 

6. The Alternative Art School and the History of the Social Reproduction of Artistic Labour

Dave Beech

7. The Art School and the Everyday: No Life Without Art

John Beck and Matthew Cornford

8. Identifying Transferable Qualities From Studio Practice To Teaching: Inwards Looking, Outwards Facing

Dom Heffer

9. The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence to the Art World

Anthony David Padgett

10. Occupying the School: Learning Otherwise

Sophie Mak-Schram

11. Autonomous Research and Knowledge Production

Jakob Jakobsen and Dr. Richard Hudson-Miles

12. The Non-profitisation Of The Studio: Implications For Arts Education

Tyler Denmead

 

Part 3: Strategies

 

13. Making and Making Do Reflections on an Alternative Art College

Mary O’Neill and Paul Alexander Stewart

14. Decade of the Damned: Notes on School of the Damned 2013 – 2023

David Steans

15. Collaboration Over Competition

Emma Edmondson and Warren Harper

16. When White Pube went to Turps Art School: Portrait of a Different Kind of Art School

Zarina Muhammad

17. The Feral Art School, Hull: Refocusing the Experience of Making Art

Jackie Goodman

18. The New School of the Anthropocene: Confronting Biopolitical Emergency and Climate Justice through Art- Critique-Experiment

Michael Hrebeniak

19. Conclusion: On the Politics of Co-operation

Richard Hudson-Miles

Biography

Richard Hudson-Miles is Senior Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Jackie Goodman is Cofounder and Director, The Feral Art School and Hon. Research Associate, Faculty of Arts, Culture and Education, University of Hull, UK.