Think we're pretty much in agreement here! Thanks for the discussion, Alan
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Curt Cloninger wrote: >> The best art teaching I've seen (and hopefully articipated in) was Lutz >> Presser's in Tasmania, and David Askevold's at Nova Scotia; in both cases, >> they/we assumed the students were already artists/agents, and treated them >> as such. So making art became a cooperative effort - sharing techniques >> when needed, but not imposing anything. And believe it or not, everyone >> rose to the occasion. It's as if nothing was taught at all but everything >> was learned. It was astonishing. > > This sits well with me as a pedagogical practice. It makes me think > of Ranciere's "Ignorant Schoolmaster." If I am the teacher/explicator > with the correct answer, then in order to liberate my students with > my wisdom and knowledge, I first have to convince them that they > aren't yet liberated. This is a form of oppression masquarading as > emancipation. As the situationists say, "Don't liberate me. I'll take > care of that." > > I, as the teacher, don't arbitrate/decide "what matters." But the > student still must decide this for herself. That is her own pragmatic > question as a practicing artist. Because she has been thrown into the > world with a body that can act on things and with a limited amount of > time to live. She is the steward of this body and time. So the art > work she makes must at least matter to her; otherwise she would spend > her time, money, and bodily energy on some other activity she deemed > more worthy. > > What kind of pedagogy best comes alongside my student and helps her > discover what matters to her? That becomes my own "pragmatic" > question as a practicing teacher. > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
