Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education 

About: Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education is an academic journal published by Intellect. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Design education & Higher education. It has an ISSN identifier of 1474-273X. Over the lifetime, 267 publications have been published receiving 2515 citations. The journal is also known as: Art, design and communication in higher education.

Coping with stress: the perspective of international students

Abstract: This study explores how stress is experienced by international students in the creative arts at the University of the Arts, London. 141 students from six geographical areas were interviewed in their own language by social science postgraduates from various institutions within the University of London. The findings are in line with those of much current work on international students generally, though some are specific to the creative arts. While problems connected with language are the most widespread cause of stress, other less obvious issues are also important. Alongside the well-known phenomenon of 'culture shock' is what has been called 'academic shock' or 'study shock' - the difficulties of transition to a different system of teaching and learning, and of integration with peers and communication with tutors (which might also be described as 'social shock'). The problems experienced by international students are not all peculiar or specific to them, but such students, a long way from their own cultural, social and linguistic environment, are more likely to feel the cumulative nature of the potential difficulties to which they are exposing themselves by studying abroad.

Eight criteria for practice-based research in the creative and cultural industries

Abstract: This article addresses two core problems in practice-based research: the identification of fundamental conditions and, therefore, the identification of actual examples. It is critical of the methods in many earlier case studies involving circular argumentation. The article assumes that research in the creative and cultural industries is both situated in the largerfield of academic research and that it is a cumulative process. From this it develops a criterion-based approach to the necessary conditions.for such research, thereby enabling the identification of actual examples. This approach solves the circularity problem of earlier case studies. The article concludes that there are four generic and four discipline-specific criteria for academic research in the field. From these criteria other consequences follow for the content of practice-based research. These eight criteria are currently being used by the authors to identify and study cases of practice-based