This paper introduces the life and work of art educator and designer Kurt Rowland (1920–1980) who authored the first set of textbooks on visual education and played a role in the shifting world of art and design education in post‐war Britian. We detail the foundational experiences of his extraordinary life in the first half of the 20th century including surviving the Spanish Civil War and La Retirada, being a ‘friendly enemy alien’, and becoming one of the Dunera boys forced into Australian internment camps. He later went on to develop a new aspect of art and design education he called visual education. We explore Rowland's notion of a visual education, explicating its features, appraising its import, and situating Rowland's ideas to those of his contemporaries. We explore his motivations and how his work advanced art pedagogy. Finally, we argue that Kurt Rowland has been absent in recent literature on art and design education and that his work, which contains elements that have continued relevance today, should not be overlooked.

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库尔特·罗兰的视觉教育：战后艺术教育学中的一股安静的力量

本文介绍了艺术教育家兼设计师库尔特·罗兰（Kurt Rowland，1920-1980）的生活和工作，他创作了第一套视觉教育教科书，并在战后英国艺术和设计教育世界的转变中发挥了作用。我们详细介绍了他在 20 世纪上半叶非凡一生的基本经历，包括在西班牙内战中幸存下来以及拉雷蒂拉达，成为“友好的敌方外星人”，并成为被迫进入澳大利亚拘留营的杜内拉男孩之一。后来他继续发展艺术和设计教育的一个新方面，他称之为视觉教育。我们探讨罗兰的视觉教育概念，解释其特征，评估其重要性，并将罗兰的思想与同时代人的思想相结合。我们探讨他的动机以及他的作品如何推进艺术教育学。最后，我们认为库尔特·罗兰在最近的艺术和设计教育文献中缺席，他的作品中包含的元素在今天仍然具有相关性，不应被忽视。