The InSEA, the University of Education Karlsruhe and the University of Education Heidelberg are planning the international congress "Art Education Research and Development" form 18. to 20. July 2007. The aim of the congress will be to present new methods of teaching and learning in the framework of art education. The aim is also a discussion on how to co-ordinate questions of creativity and self-education with questions on individual and societal creation skills and with a multi-perspective generation of knowledge in a complex society