The Education Administration Project at the School of Education, University of the West Indies, involves the teaching of Education Foundation and Administration courses to education officers and principals of primary and all-age schools. These courses take place in the summer and are continued and followed up in the following year mainly through seminars and visits of lecturers to the principals’ schools.

In preparing this article I chose six social functions of art and planned three sample lessons for each. The lessons are aimed at helping secondary school students understand these functions by actually trying to put them into practice. Each set of lessons is preceded by a short description of the social function of art the lessons are intended to illustrate. The lessons are intended as samples of the possibilities which exist. A number of these ideas have been tried — with very satisfying results — by some of my own interns here at Church Teachers’ College.