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To weave or not to weave, that is the (knotty) question

NICOLA PHILIP


I would hazard a guess that many of the art teachers in our primary schools are not formally art trained, at least not at the start of their art room journey anyway. Often it is people returning from family leave who only wish to work part time, or those among us who are not averse to a little chaos and paint in our lives – I have many teachers comment ‘I could never teach art, it’s too messy’ or sometimes they think they’re not creative enough. I would beg to differ – I ‘learned’ about teaching art for half a semester as part of my teacher training and... (log in or join to continue reading)

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