Intellect

Fernando Hernández is Professor of Visual Arts Education and Visual Culture Studies in the Art Education Division of the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Barcelona. He has co-coordinated the Experimental Program of Secondary Art Teacher Education there for fifteen years. He also coordinates an Inter-university doctoral programme called ‘Visual Arts and Education: A constructivist approach’, and directs the Masters Course Studies in Visual Culture. Since 2001 he has been co-coordinator of the Centre of Studies for Change in Culture and Education based at the University. He understands art education as a form of cultural knowledge in which the development of critical understanding plays a key role.