OER Commons What is Useful? The paradox of rights in Tania Bruguera’s ‘Useful Art’ Immigrant Movement International. Courtesy CreativeTime If the question for socially engaged art, as the curator Nato Thompson has recently argued, is no longer “Is it art?” The political theorist Wendy Brown, in her text Suffering the Paradoxes of Rights, asks for a space beyond the judicial which articulates what equality might look like outside of a “progressive historiography,”[6] wherein rights function to achieve the illusion of progress within a still intact and unchanged social order. Brown’s article inhabits a Foucauldian perspective in opposition to the currency of an ‘oppression’ and ‘liberation’ binary, instead seeking to illustrate the law as one regulatory framework which continually constructs and reconstructs subjects in the service of power. It is important to note here that as Brown stated in her introduction, she is not against working for rights. Queen’s Dream Team, Immigrant Movement International. To be fair, Bruguera would prefer the project not to end.
Learning Through Art Learning Through Art (LTA), an artist residency program, cultivates student creativity by designing sustained, process-oriented art projects that support learning across the curriculum. The program sends experienced teaching artists into New York City public schools, where they collaborate with classroom teachers to develop and facilitate art projects integrated into the school curriculum. Read more about LTA's history and structure. This area of the website provides in-depth information about current LTA residencies as well as useful resources for educators, including questions to facilitate discussion of works of art and detailed lesson plans for exploring art projects and techniques in the classroom. Photo: Enid Alvarez
The Walters Art Museum Executive Function, Arts Integration and Joyful Learning (Part 6 of 7) When students know they will have opportunities to use artistic, kinesthetic or manipulative experiences in the course of learning and as part of their learning assessments, their optimism is renewed. Knowing from the start that they will create representations of their learning through visual, musical or movement expressions (ideally with a medium of their choice) is an inoculation against boredom and low effort. When the brain has reasons to expect that something previously pleasurable will soon happen, such as when a creative activity will be part of new learning, that expectation results in increased release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which increases pleasure and reduces stress. Fixed Mindset to Growth Mindset Arts, writing and other creative representations embedded throughout the curriculum can reignite the childhood joy students came to associate with learning, discovering, and creating. Immediate Gratification or Effort Toward Goals Notes Posner, M. & Patoine, B. (2009).
Singapore Art Gallery Guide - SAGG Education materials :: Education The Gallery produces a diverse range of resources for the primary, secondary and tertiary education audiences linked to our collection and major exhibitions. Education kits Collection notes and exhibition kits available free online Collection kits for sale A series of A4, loose-leaf education kits on various aspects of the collection, available for sale from the Gallery Shop. Children's trails Activity booklets for children for some temporary exhibitions and permanent galleries. Online catalogues Catalogues of exhibitions drawn from the Gallery’s collection. Education e-newsletter Subscribe to the Gallery’s e-newsletter for Years K-12 teachers. National Assembly of State Arts Agencies The 20 Features Teachers Should Know about The 21st Century Classroom We have been talking a lot about the 21st century skills teacher need to have but what about the 21st century classroom ? Do we know how it looks like ? How much of technology is used there and why should there be any technology it after all ? These are questions that Open Colleges is trying to anwser in their awesome infographic below. Honestly I was thinking that the Flipped Classroom is the type of classroom we will have in the future but I don't think I am right so far. Edudemic has also helped in the realization of this infographic and it even summarized its key elements in the following bullets : 91% of teachers have computers in the classroomJust 20% think they have the right level of technology in the classroomMore than half of all colleges surveyed say their biggest priority is upgrading their wi-fi system43% of teachers surveyed have used online games in the classroom29% of teachers use social networks… 80% of college professors do too.