A History of Disability and Art Education

Drawing on recent theoretical frameworks from critical disability studies and art education including normalcy, ableism, dis/ability and Crip theory, this book offers an analysis of the conceptualisation of ability in art education and its relationship with disability.

Claire Penketh is Head of Disability Studies and Core member of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University. She is Principal Editor of the International Journal of Art and Design Education and author of A Clumsy Encounter: Dyspraxia and Drawing. She is also co-editor of Disability, Avoidance and the Academy along with her colleague Professor David Bolt. Claire has published a number of special issues on the topic of disability studies and art education including Drawingability for Drawing Research Theory and Practice with Doris Rohr, The Biopolitics of Art Education for the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies with Jeff Adams and a thematic Issue on Disability Justice: Decentering Colonial Knowledge, Centering Decolonial Epistemologies for Research in Arts and Education with Alexandra Allen and Alice Wexler. She is a member of the National Society for Education in Art and Design Education (NSEAD) and chair of their special interest group on Anti-ableist Pedagogy.