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Introduction Diarmuid McAuliffe is Programme Leader for the Artist Teacher MEd and Lecturer in art and design education at the School of Education, University of the West of Scotland. He is responsible there for primary and secondary art initial teacher education courses and for the Artist Teacher Master of Education Programme, which he developed in 2009 in association with Glasgow Museums and the National Society for Education in Art and Design [NSEAD]. Prior to this he was Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Exeter. He has taught art in schools at all levels in the UK and in other European countries. In February 2009, he was part of an international team of experts who carried out a review of art and design education for the Lithuanian Ministry for Education and Science. His research interests include pedagogy and the history and philosophy of art and design education. In July 2009 he was joint convenor of the European Affective Education Network’s International Conference on Creativity and Emotional Wellbeing. His contribution to the co-authored book Art 3-11 Reaching the Standard was published by Continuum Press in 2007