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Chapter 10 of the publication "Critical Studies in Art & Design Education" is presented. It focuses on a built environment project with a mixed ability group of Year 7 students, aged 11 to 12 years who, at the time of the project, attended Deacon's School in Peterborough. The project is intended to show simply how one teacher has made use of a particular approach to the critical and contextual studies element of the art and design curriculum.

Chapter 6 of the publication "Critical Studies in Art & Design Education" is presented. It discusses the content and meaning in art and design education. The author expresses his disappoint over the elevation of the status of science by the National Curriculum while diminishing the place of the arts to the point where there is the risk of them becoming so marginalized that it is going to be difficult for them to recover fully. The author also discusses universal themes and their significance.

Chapter 4 of the publication "Critical Studies in Art & Design Education" is presented. The author contends that the establishment of critical studies over the past years in the primary and secondary phases of art and design education is due to a small cohort of educationalists that serve as the pioneers of critical studies in schools. At present, critical studies has been accepted as component of the art and design curriculum, the author said.