YASMIN-messages Digest 07.03.2008.
Roger
b) In many countries art and music schools are outside the university system ( here where I live there both art schools in the university and separate art schools and music conservatories that are not university affiliated)
First of all, this situation is changing especially in Europe. To compute North American education and research, Bologna process is realized in EU and will be active after 2010. PhD education is called as third cycle. The third cycle will make a equality in all European Education. Art Schools and music conservatories will have to use a university structure.
a) In the arts does it make sense to discuss the PhD research degree in isolation from redesigning the art/design curriculum as a whole ?
This is also a tricky but important question and has been arguing since beginning. In contrast with Science Education, Criticism starts at the the beginning of the first year of undergraduate education in Art and Design. In this way, criticism means a kind of research especially in studio works at Art and Design schools.
Following process in studio works, (problem specification, reviews of existing work, problem solving-creating original idea) is exactly the same as how a PhD project is structured. Nevertheless, m! ost of art teachers keep away from a researc! h degree titled as PhD because they afraid of departing from artistic concept ; they think, they will be a scientist if they study a PhD Degree although their methodology is the same as a PhD Process.
Therefore I believe, most research schools make a mistake as saying ¨practise based¨ PhD to explain artistic research clearly to art audience.
I avoid to say PRACTICING Art. Artistic work to me is a pure research. That is described as Reflection in Action by Donald A. Schon. ( Schon83)
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Schon A. D. (1983). The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action, Basic Books; 1 edition
