Premium
Pedagogy Against the State
Author(s) -
Atkinson Dennis
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international journal of art and design education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1476-8070
pISSN - 1476-8062
DOI - 10.1111/j.1476-8070.2008.00581.x
Subject(s) - ingenuity , grasp , pedagogy , meaning (existential) , sociology , state (computer science) , section (typography) , focus (optics) , engineering ethics , epistemology , engineering , computer science , philosophy , software engineering , algorithm , operating system , physics , optics
The text of this article was originally presented in a public lecture in February 2008. It presents a description of earlier research on children's drawing practices which considers the ingenuity of learning and meaning‐making through drawing. Then the focus moves to the language of assess‐mentto consider how, art practices, such as drawing, as well as learner and teacher identities, are constructed and regulated within such linguistic practices (discourses). Bearing in mind the regulatory effect of such practices (and that all discourses are in some way regulatory) the final section introduces the idea of pedagogy against the state in order to think again an ethics of pedagogy concerned with becoming; an ethical imperative for pedagogy concerned with expanding our grasp of what learning is .