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"young artists' educational experiences shape how they construct their artistic identities and understand their roles in society"
Gaztambides-Fernandez

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"The aloneness of which I speak is much more like the absences of birth and death."
James Baldwin
-> reflexivity + absurd

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Role of the artist is not solitary, art education must shift from imparting information to exchanging information and constructing knowledge through public interaction"
Gaztambides-Fernandez

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Scholars from various disciplines have studied the nature of artistic personalities, and generally, they tend to "agree that certain marked characteristics distinguish the artist from 'normal' people."

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~Pleasure in the classroom~
bell hooks

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"...without great courage, lies to oneself about all one's interior, uncharted chaos, so have we as a nation... immobilized in the prison of his undiscovered self."
James Baldwin

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"Teachers must be committed to a process of self actualization that promotes their own well being if they are to teach in a manner that empowers students."
bell hooks

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"The ignorant teacher" Addams wrote, "cuts [immigrant children] off from their parents and their parents' traditions, while the cultivated teacher fastens them because his own mind is open to the charm and beauty of old country life."

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"To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of students is essential to provide necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin."
bell hooks

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Why is there the desire to have teachers compartmentalize mind/spirit (from the Bourgeois)? Where exactly is this ban from?

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"endowing the educator with sufficient equipment to properly perform his task."
John Dewey, Article 5 from My Pedagogic Creed

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"The students I encounter seem far more uncertain about the project of self-actualization, than my peers and I were 20 years ago."
bell hooks, middle of page 19

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I found Baldwin's statement on code-switching still relevant and completely angering. It is absurd that W.P. do not know that lies about what it means to be black also point to lies about what it means to be white.

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"That any Negro who is born in this country and undergoes the American educational system runs the risk of becoming schizophrenic."
James Baldwin

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Both Baldwin and hooks described issues that are ongoing. hooks describes the way students of color are considered combative when seeking truth and trying to dismantle rigid systems and Baldwin talks about exactly how racism makes holistic learning necessary.

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"I do not expect students to take any risks that I would not take."
bell hooks

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"The child's own instincts and powers furnish the material and give the starting point for all education."

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"...he has the right and the necessity to examine everything."

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"The purpose of education is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself."
James Baldwin
- empowering
- identity
- resistance

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"As one becomes conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."
James Baldwin

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"I believe that education therefore is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."
John Dewey

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Education is a "continuing reconstruction of experience" the process and the goal are the same thing.
John Dewey

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EDUCATION AS EXPERIENCE, EXPERIENCE IS...

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EDUCATION AS EXPERIENCE, EXPERIENCE IS...

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EDUCATION AS SITUATED (gendered, racialized, site specific, temporal, etc.)

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EDUCATION AS SITUATED (gendered, racialized, site specific, temporal, etc.)

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"I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life."
John Dewey

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"Mini-Kingdoms"
bell hooks
(influence to control of the classroom)(?)

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"Seeing the classroom as a communal space..."
bell hooks & John Dewey
Teachers and students as active participants, community has a 'moral connection' to education.
Surprised by the connection between community and education.

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"Wood Land School can be whatever it needs to be. It responds to a specific moment in time and adapts to a specific location."

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"True education correlates to the social situation."
John Dewey

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"It is true that language is a logical instrument, but it is fundamentally and primarily a social instrument."
John Dewey

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"You must find yourself at war with society. It is your responsibility to change society if you think of yourself as an educated person... And on the basis of evidence... one is compelled to say that this is a backward society."
James Baldwin

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Succeeding in a capitalist framework... being detached from (body?)... being obedient, a vessel for knowledge, abandoning critical thought/emotion... discouraging empathy as a whole

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"The content of any given curriculum could be 'discovered' by a process of surveying what successful adults know and can do." (Prologue to Curriculum Studies re: Bobbit)
ewww!

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"Professional knowledge applicable to curriculum work could be found in the logic of 'scientific management' which had been applied to raising worker productivity in industry." (Prologue to Curriculum Studies re: Bobbit)

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"While the institutions of liberal humanism offer a long tradition of aesthetic theorizing and have the resources to support and legitimate artistic work, they must contend with the contradictions inherent in their history and values."

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"School was still a political space since we were always having to counter white racist assumptions."
bell hooks

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"...Government is the creation of the people. It is responsible to the people. And the people are responsible to it."
James Baldwin

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EDUCATION AS/IN RELATION TO POLITICAL/SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS

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EDUCATION AS/IN RELATION TO POLITICAL/SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS

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"Learning at its most powerful could indeed liberate."
bell hooks

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What other roles can (should) artists and artist educators play besides "border crosser", "representator" and "civilizer"?
Ruben Gaztambides-Fernandez

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What is "a" progressive?
-> notions of "progress" "change" though implicit

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VULNERABILITY
What is its pedagogical purpose? How do we encourage it?

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How can we achieve the idea of "education as a practice of freedom" under the context of the educational/public system?
- Pressure(?) from standardized tests
- Labor conditions of teachers

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How do we un-write & re-frame the mind/body split?!
It's so fucked up!

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Where do...
1. self-actualization (the process & symptoms)
2. empathy/sympathy (process/symptoms)
3. "personal success" (hooks uses this term)
Intersect?

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How do we empower children to question boundaries or ideas that prevent them from becoming more powerful and liberated
- in particular class settingss
- public schools, etc.
bell hooks

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How do we strategize and incentivize empathy/listening in a deeply entrenched, white supremacist, capitalist education system?

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"What does it mean for a settler colonial institution to un-know it's power?" Linklater & The Wood Land School