Conditions for learning: partnerships for engaging secondary pupils with contemporary art.

playgrounds. The rhythm of the project disrupted the usual pattern of the school day
and this was experienced as motivational, even liberating as was working in groups
and producing artwork on a much larger scale.

4/resistant: .. we go outside, which we don’t go often, and we do a lot of big art stuff
than... in the classroom.

On one level, pupils’ participation in a high profile project provided them with a sense
they were involved in something different and worthwhile.

3/unfathomable: It was interesting because it got a lot of people involved like the
government and artists and stuff like that.

Indeed, the opportunity for pupils to show their work in a public space other than
school was itself motivational.

3/resistant: . I think other schools came as well, and other schools really liked it a
lot.

2/resistant: . it was really good because we got a chance of showing our art to other
people. I think others should get the chance to do it as well.

2/good: To have a private viewing at this age is really nice because it’s something
you can put down that you’ve done and something you can be proud of, which is
good. I got to work with my friends and stuff, that’s nice.

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