Within the space of this collective image/text article, 18 photographic imagemakers and 4 respondents consider deeply and dialogically a quote from William Ayers' 2016 book Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World: An Invitation. The resulting constellation of images and words (1) realizes a space within which works of art, specifically photographs, operate as centers of meaning to generate educational implications, and (2) theorizes a pedagogy that resists unilateral prescriptions and is instead anchored around openness, expansion, and individualization. The paper begins with a few short pieces from Sarah Pfohl, including an overview of Ayers' book and ideas from writings on progressive education, object-based teaching and learning, and close/slow looking to position works of art as sites of rich meaning. While contemporary schooling often drives toward monolithic, numerical representations of the learners in its care, the article employs postdigital gestures to argue that learners have more in common with works of art than numbers, and thus, attention to artworks can open valuable implications for teaching and learning. The diverse group of images that follow offer an emerging portrait of teaching practice as a set of constantly shifting constellations moving across deep time and space from the intensely specific to the wide. Four texts think more about schools, education, and art. Finally, there is a postscript from Bill Ayers himself.
The purpose of this article is to examine Art Education and Human Development, a development cooperation project carried out during the period 2015-2018 in Ananthapuramu, India and implemented between the University of Seville, Spain and the Fundaci on Vicente Ferrer (Vicente Ferrer Foundation) -Rural Development Trust (FVF-RDT). Drawing on action research methods, the participants were children with disability and resident teachers, in accordance with the schools involved in the study. The aim of our work was to accomplish a set of art practices so as to develop empowerment and human values in order to offer an artistic and pedagogical training to the local teachers involved in the project. Broadly speaking, our results approach the notions of development cooperation and art education, understanding art education as a vehicle for emancipation and social transformation. Therefore, art education for development cooperation is comprehended as a process that encourages social inclusion, respect for diversity, education in values, cooperation and whole-person development. As a result, the experiences presented derive from a process of action research and favour the development of guidelines for possible good practices.
Desde el periodo de entreguerras del s. XX, la imagen sustituye a la palabra como medio dominante para retratar las apariencias, para mostrar lo real (Berger, 2008). Vivimos en un mundo eminentemente visual, en el que recibimos la mayoría de la información por medio de las imágenes. No obstante, avistamos un futuro de incertidumbre, donde la proliferación de imágenes fácilmente puede desembocar en un cansancio de la mirada que conduzca a la inacción. Por ello, se plantea un cambio de paradigma que desplace el foco desde la interpretación o lectura de imágenes hacia la transformación de las realidades desde el uso de las mismas. El siguiente estudio tiene como objetivo repensar las imágenes desde un enfoque performativo, así como explorar sus posibilidades educativas: nos acercamos a los conceptos y teorías fundamentales para entender el término performatividad, desde los estudios de performance y la filosofía del lenguaje. Igualmente, se abordan las teorías en torno a la imagen y sus posibilidades performativas, para valorar, por último, sus aplicaciones en el campo de la educación. Se concibe la imagen como un elemento vivo que genera experiencia al ser producido y percibido: que construye nuestra mirada y nuestros imaginarios, configurados de forma intersubjetiva. Frente a la hegemonía visual actual, se propone entender la creación de imágenes propias como potencias de transformación de las realidades. Esto conforma un objetivo fundamental en una educación que pretende mirar al futuro e incidir en él de manera activa. Se torna esencial generar las bases de un pensamiento crítico en torno a lo visual en el ámbito educativo para transformar realidades: para construir una sociedad más participativa y más justa.
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