Introduction to Part 3 of the Symposium on Control of K-12 Arts Education: Sectors of Influence.

The three papers that follow constitute the third and final installment in a series of three symposia on the broad topic of control of K-12 arts education published in Arts Education Policy Review (AEPR). Each of these symposia has been rooted in the recognition that issues of power and control seem to dominate (too often uncritically) discussion of education and culture. It has been the intent of AEPR's editors to offer means of understanding the complex interrelationships of values and the exercise of power and control in the K-12 arts education arena. It is hoped, as a result, ...