This course aims to enable students to prepare a proposal for art educational research into a chosen specialisation in art education. Course content will include a review of major factors entailed in - historical, descriptive, experimental, and philosophical methods; literature reviews including - computer-assisted searches and descriptors, annotations, abstracts; instrumentation and data collection, qualitative and quantitative methods, the pilot study, sampling, research evaluation; introduction to descriptive, analytical, and interpretative approaches to the statistical measures of central tendency, variability, correlation, probability, frequency; qualitative measures of conceptual and structural analysis, auditing, triangulation; proposal writing, framing a question, setting the limitations of the study.