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Baldacchino, John (2008) The praxis of art's deschooled practice. International Journal of Art & Design Education, Vol.27 (No.3). pp. 241-250. doi:10.1111/j.1476-8070.2008.00580.x ISSN 1476-8062.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-8070.2008.00580.x
Abstract
Art's relationship with education is often characterised by paradox. Yet art is often reified within an education system that refuses to see the pedagogical strengths of paradox. This article approaches art education from three positions. The first is that art is a construct that is neither natural nor necessary. The second is that there are no aesthetic or pedagogical imperatives, but that art education is the recognition of groundlessness where paradox facilitates learning. The third approach is to reposition art with regards to its relationship with learning, education and schooling. Here it is argued that art's only choice is to deschool learning. The latter is moved by an underlying dilemma as to whether art, considered as an autonomous human act, could ever engage with systems of learning without being turned into a tool or a thing. Unless art education is deschooled, the teaching and learning of art remains trapped between the assumptions of process and product. So the idea of art and education as shared practices within schooling remains somewhat dubious unless art's practices are recognised in parts perceived as wholes and where conclusions are marked by open-endedness. No possibilities for art or learning could ever emerge unless a radically different set of conditions give way to a state of affairs where knowledge is a matter to be discovered but never determined, and where a fixed ground is transformed into a wide horizon.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education N Fine Arts |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Art -- Study and teaching | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Art & Design Education | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 1476-8062 | ||||
Official Date: | 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.27 | ||||
Number: | No.3 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 10 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 241-250 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1476-8070.2008.00580.x | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Version or Related Resource: | This article was originally presented (in shorter form) as a paper on ‘Art And Education Parallel Philosophies, Shared Practices’ at the School of Education, The University of the West of Scotland, on 13 February 2007. |
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