Remixing the Art Curriculum aims to provide an insight into design-based methodologies that can be applied to reduce the gap between formal art education and contemporary real world visual practices. The study is based on the premise that art has an intrinsic social value and that the relevancy of art education increases when it addresses both the emergent needs and interest of the student and contemporary developments in the professional art domain.
The empirical study explores the present-day practices and competencies of international artists and informal visual producers. These findings inform an updated pedagogical framework for authentic art education, which is implemented and evaluated at different schools. The second part of the dissertation discusses the experiences of 20 teachers and 302 students with the framework of authentic art education.
The paramount implication of Remixing the Art Curriculum is that it exemplifies how design principles of authentic art education can stimulate the design and implementation of innovative learning and teaching arrangements, which reflect on and discuss contemporary (visual) culture, challenging students to think and act more like professional creative producers.

Heijnen, E. (2015). Remixing the Art Curriculum: How Contemporary Visual Practices Inspire Authentic Art Education. (Doctoral Dissertation). Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen.