Art/ist Teaching incorporates research as well as teaching methods. This double engagement leads to important overlaps and unavoidable interferences between the two practice fields, which in turn demand the invention of new research methodologies, assembled from disciplines such as educational research, cultural analysis and critical theory, artistic research and artistic practice. The complex intertwining of the various areas results in the development of specific and critically committed research methodologies, at the point of convergence between artistic practice and teaching. The reciprocal influence of interdisciplinary theory and deconstructive practices will also generate a critical analysis of deep-seated behavioural patterns and traditions in the area of art pedagogy, without thereby dismissing proven processes and epistemologies. The aim of the research is finally to take the current media, cultural and social challenges into due consideration and to develop proactive and potentially radical practices in art teaching for future art educators.