VOLUME 6(2) • 2018
UNSETTLING BINARIES OF KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE AND EDUCATION
ABSTRACT. Scholarship and research can be described as strategies that seek to simplify reality, which is one possible reason why reified binaries seem to cause problems in so many fields. Essentialism is associated with black-and-white thinking, philosophical imperialism and the inability to accoun..
TEACHING AS DIALOGIC CONCEPTUAL ART
ABSTRACT. We describe an approach to teaching as a dialogic conceptual art. This is not a metaphor. Conceptual art teaching is eventful, ontological, paradoxical, unpredictable, and surprising for all participants including the teacher. Conceptualist teachers expect to be surprised by their students..
THINKING WITH KLOSTERMAN’S RAZOR: DIFFRACTING “REVIEWER 2” AND RESEARCH WRONGNESS
ABSTRACT. Four authors from art education, early childhood literacy education, and social studies education explore what counts as social science research with help from the blinded peer review process. The authors invite readers to think with wrongness when vetting data from a composite character n..
STOLEN GENERATIONS: TEACHING ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES OF TRAUMA
ABSTRACT. Stories from the Stolen Generations in Australia have formed an integral part of the curriculum in Australian schools for many years. Teachers in both primary and secondary schools are required to include this “difficult knowledge” in their programs. But most teachers do not have the skill..
DARK DREAMS AND MALIGN CREATIVITY
ABSTRACT. Creativity is value-neutral. While it can be used to bring into the world ideas and objects of beauty, or at least novelty, creativity may be – and often is – used with malevolent intent. This article is concerned with creative minds which conceive of and cause horrors to be enacted. It re..
FICTION/NON-FICTION, OR: MYTH AND THE ARCHITECT’S ARCHITECTURE
ABSTRACT. Architecture is constructed not only in its images of objects, but also in its idealization of authorship. While the one–to–one association of Architect with “their” Architecture perpetuates the illusion of the discipline’s agency and fosters impossible expectations of absolute control, br..
PLAY AND INDIGENOUS GAMES OF CHILDREN: A CULTURAL HERITAGE OF WESTERN ODISHA, INDIA
ABSTRACT. The study of play through time and across cultures has consistently demonstrated that, it is a multi-faceted phenomenon being ubiquitous among diverse human societies. The present paper makes a humble endeavour to intricate how different types of traditional games of rural children are bei..
BEYOND PROMETHEUS: CREATIVITY, DISCOURSE, IDEOLOGY, AND THE ANTHROPOCENE
ABSTRACT. This article considers the strange confluence of the rhetoric of creativity and commerce at key points across the “Great Acceleration”. It argues that although the idea of creativity has its most common contemporary expression in art, it does not in fact emerge from the discourse of art. R..
WATER, FIRE AND THE FEMININE IN THE PRE-HISPANIC WORLD: CREATION AND DESTRUCTION OF CULTURE
ABSTRACT. The following text discusses the ideas of water, of fire and the feminine, essential elements in the pre-Hispanic world, as forces with the potential to create and destroy a culture. In The feminine in the pre-Hispanic World: Traces of eroticism and the radical other, we argue that the “ho..