Re-imagining the Art School: Paragogy and Artistic Learning

by Neil Mulholland

Overview

This book proposes ‘paragogic’ methods to re-imagine the art academy. While art schooling was revolutionised in the early 20th century by the Bauhaus, the author argues that many art schools are unwittingly recycling the same modernist pedagogical fashions. Stagnating in such traditions, today’s art schools are blind to recent advances in the scholarship of teaching and learning. As discipline-based education research in art eternally battles the perceived threat of epistemicide, transformative educational practices are rapidly overcoming the perennialism of the art school. The author develops critical case studies of open source and peer-to-peer methods for re-imagining the art academy (para-academia) and andragogy (paragogy). This innovative book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of the art school, as well as how the art academy can be reimagined and rebuilt.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030206284
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	08/23/2019
Series:	Creativity, Education and the Arts
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	145
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Neil Mulholland is Professor of Contemporary Art Practice and Theory, at Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh, UK. He is co-director of Shift/Work and of The Confraternity of Neoflagellants.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Diglossic.- Chapter 2. Gnothi sauton, Homo Artifex.- Chapter 3. Porous.- Chapter 4. Para-Academia.- Chapter 5. Independent Programmes.- Chapter 6. Paragogy.- Chapter 7. Five Principles.