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Malcolm Ross
Professor Malcolm Ross, an internationally recognized figure in arts education, read
English at Cambridge (1953–1956) and then taught the subject in schools and colleges until
1967, when he joined the staff at Exeter University’s School of Education. Together with
Robert Witkin, he led the School Council’s Arts and the Adolescent national research
(1968–1972), a project jointly sponsored by the University and Dartington College of Arts.
Witkin published his The Intelligence of Feeling in 1974, and Malcolm his The Creative Arts
in 1978. Malcolm went on to develop separate part-time MEd degrees in Arts Education
and the Arts Therapies, together with the University’s annual summer schools for arts
teachers and therapists. Routledge published his most recent book, Cultivating the Arts in
Education and Therapy, in 2011. In 2017 he became a visiting professor of Aesthetic
Education at the University of Wolverhampton.