Carol Wild

Carol has worked across all phases of education for over twenty years as an artist, teacher, mentor, and researcher. She has led postgraduate programmes in education for many years, designing creative CPD for busy teachers and supporting individuals and groups in developing impactful research projects in their school communities. She is a passionate advocate for the arts in education and for the role of the subject specialist as an expert in their discipline. Carol is working towards completing her PhD exploring the ongoing impact of Artist Teacher pedagogy and practice.

Teacher CPD, Educational research and evaluation (particularly evaluation of arts based learning), curriculum design and assessment in Art, Design and Craft education, design of arts based learning in contexts outside school (galleries, museums, forest school etc.), therapeutic interventions for teacher well-being .

Progression in arts education, knowledge in arts education, creative development in children and young people, the Artist Teacher, mentoring, creative and affective pedagogies, speculative and arts-based research methods, the histories of the arts and education, the classroom as a work of art, neo-liberalism and art education.

Publications and Projects
Wild, C. (2013) Who Owns the Classroom? Profit, Pedagogy, Belonging, Power.
International Journal of Art & Design Education, 32: 288–299.
Wild, C. (2011), Making Creative Spaces: The Art and Design Classroom as a Site of
Performativity. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 30: 423–432.

Other positions
Member of NSEAD (National Society for Art & Design Education)
Member of INSEA (International Society for Education in Art)