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Design Education in Great Britain

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The concept that art and design education are indivisible is being eroded, and new concepts of industrial design are emerging. Professor Black argues for specialization in art and design education and for specialist design courses to be given in the schools of art.

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  1. The Structure of Art and Design Education, Report of the Joint Committee of the NACAE and the NCDAD (HMSO, 1970).

  2. First Report of the National Advisory Council on Art Education (HMSO, 1960).

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BLACK, M. Design Education in Great Britain. Nature 231, 19–22 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/231019a0

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