TOOLS AND ACTIVITIES FOR LEARNING
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16: THINKING WITH THE HEAD, THINKING WITH THE HANDS
PENSANDO CON LA MANOS_PENSANDO CON LA CABEZA Published at: August 12, 2020 Thinking with the head, Thinking with the Hands Published at: August 12, 2020
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ARAC Zines
Members of the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster (ARAC) put together zines in 2018 as a summary of their individual research projects and activities. The Zines may be viewed as a repository of the key components of knowledge creation and dissemination embarked on by the various members, or they may be used as learning/teaching aids for…
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DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN PAULO FREIRE’S METHOD OF CRITICAL LITERACY AND ANDEAN WORLD-VIEWS
The work itinerary that we propose in this learning unit consists of materials, texts, images and personal anecdotes that Sofía Olascoaga[1] and I gathered on a visit we made to WAMAN WASI, a center of cultural affirmation and recovery of Amazonian Andean peasant technologies in Lamas Peru. The questions we asked at the time were: How does…
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REFLECTION OF PRACTICES THROUGH DIALOGUE WITH IMAGES AND WRITTEN CONVERSATIONS – ACTIVATION OF ARCHIVES OF POPULAR EDUCATION
This Learning Unit shows, with the help of a video we as Bogota Working Group produced, a possibility of how to put central concepts of Paulo Freire into a new and present context.
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EXPERIMENTS IN INJECTING CRITICAL READINGS OF THE HISTORY OF ARTS AND DESIGN EDUCATION INTO AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE IN PUBLICATION DESIGN
This learning unit was designed for use by 1st year diploma level visual communication students at a tertiary-level art and design school in Uganda. Its aim was to introduce the students to publication design (as specified in the curriculum) while at the same time engaging them in critical readings of the history of art and…
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ACTIVATING ARCHIVES THROUGH RADICAL METHODS: INTERGENERATIONAL CONVERSATIONS
This Learning Unit is concerned with decolonising art educations, unlearning histories that replicate the colonial gaze, re-formatting our own art educations and a re-positioning of this canon by centring artists and cultural producers of colour. We are focused on histories of 1980s ‘Black Arts Movement’ in the United Kingdom and its impact on artists of…
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DECOLONISING LITERACY WITH CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
This Learning Unit is intended to provide activity plans for students or other learners in late primary to high school, though they can be shared with any group of people with moderate literacy skills. The activities may be used in classrooms or workshop settings and can be used to develop and enhance critical dimension of…
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HOW TO WORK WITH ARCHIVES THAT ARE “NOT THERE”? ENGAGING MEDU ART ENSEMBLE IN THE NOW
This Learning Unit is concerned with the politics of archival access or how to work with archives that are ‘not there’. The central story of the Johannesburg Working Group (JWG) is the Medu Art Ensemble (Medu), a collective of informal members; most of them exiled artists from South Africa, working in Botswana circa 1979-1985.
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PEDAGOGY AND CRITICISM OF CAPITALISM IN WEST BERLIN FROM 1969
1970, West Berlin. At the height of the Cold War, three years after the revolts staged by students, particularly in Paris, Frankfurt, and (West) Berlin, the publisher Basis Verlag started calling itself a socialist collective. The name of the publisher “Basis Verlag” unmistakably refers to the Marxist pair of terms “base” and “superstructure”. Many of…