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This open access book surveys the dynamic landscape of professional arts and design education research, examining salient concepts and issues through the lens of signature pedagogies as an analytical framework. The arts and design professions covered in this book are: music, dance, theatre, fashion design, design and media, and fine art. Chapters in the book present a combination of reflective accounts, in-depth analyses, and empirical research findings, shedding light on the education of students for productive and meaningful careers in the arts and design. They examine how concepts, issues, methods, and practices relate to habits of the mind, hand, and heart. Pedagogical insights on creative uncertainty, designerly formations, evocative ambiguity, generative apprenticeship, reflexivity, transition, truth, and artistic tradition and heritage are explored with nuance and depth. The book constitutes a collective effort of artist-educators at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore, in documenting a shared institutional heritage, which is continually rejuvenated through critical engagement with contemporary challenges. They examine the tensions embedded in the signature pedagogies and possible solutions to address them at the micro- (e.g. classroom or practicum), meso- (e.g. program), and macro- (e.g. institution) levels. In the process, the book highlights research issues and directions for arts education researchers, while also offering ideas that artist-educators can explore and incorporate into their teaching.

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Christopher S. G. Khoo is an associate professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and former head of the Division of Information Studies in the school. He is the editor of the open access journal, LIBRES e-journal. His research interests are multidisciplinary and encompass knowledge graphs and graph visualization, argument-information-linguistic structures in academic writing, user information behaviour, and digital humanities. His current work in applying knowledge graph visualization and digital technologies to support art and design research and learning seeks to add a new dimension to art/design education.  Rebecca Y. P. Kan is an associate dean at NAFA, University of the Arts Singapore, holding dual appointments at the Teaching and Learning Centre and the Faculty of Performing Arts. With a Doctorate in Education (Ed.D.) focusing on curriculum, teaching, and learning, as well as a Ph.D. in Musicology, her research interests stretch from historical evolutions of the concerto, musical analysis, the Baroque Adagio, professional arts education, faculty development, service learning, creative pedagogies, and everything that lies in-between. She is the co-editor of Teaching and Learning the Arts in Higher Education with Technology: Vignettes from Practice (Springer, 2021).

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