This article assembles some ideas on equality and learning in relation to the notions of truth and emancipation. It considers learning as a political act, as defined by Jacques Ranciere and Alain Badiou, rather than, for example, an incremental process of psychological or sociological development. Practical exemplifications will be taken from…

The Education Departments of Tate Modern and Goldsmiths College collaborated with a group of teachers to find out what they understood by the term "contemporary art" and to discover the conditions that enable contemporary art practices in the classroom. We explored questions with eleven teachers, from both primary and secondary schools, during the…

Explores the material nature of language in practices that construct pupils as subjects in art curricula. Shows that assessment practices can pathologize what may be, for pupils, powerful and legitimate art practices. Examines how a more inclusive and legitimating construction of pupils as subjects involved in drawing practice is possible. (DSK)