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Emeline Roy; Matt McLain – Curriculum Journal, 2025
Applied arts and artistic cultures are taught in vocational high schools, in France, with the aim of developing civic and social skills in students, which are cross-cutting or generic. To achieve this, this design education revolves around the creation and conception of artefacts. This article explores epistemological issues relating to the role…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education Schools, High Schools, Intellectual Disciplines
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Brion, Katherine – History of Education, 2022
The "Belle Époque" quest for a modern beauty (an 'art nouveau') extended into France's system of free primary schooling, established in the 1880s by the Third Republic to educate the popular masses. Design reformers' belief in the underlying unity of the fine and applied arts, and their growing emphasis on the importance of individual…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Education, Design, Fine Arts
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Huppatz, DJ; Lees-Maffei, Grace – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2013
This article asks: what is the significance of design history within higher education? It reviews the practice and purpose of design history, in the education of historically aware and critically engaged designers, as an emerging independent discipline, and in terms of what the subject has to offer allied fields such as history, sociology,…
Descriptors: Design, History, Intellectual Disciplines, History Instruction
Baïdak, Nathalie; Pejnovic, Svetlana – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2015
The Eurydice network has been collecting data on instruction time for more than two decades. These data have been published in many Eurydice publications, notably all editions of the 'Key data on Education'. Since 2010, annually updated data on instruction time has been available on the Eurydice website. Since 2013, the Eurydice network has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Time on Task, General Education