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.

Proposes innovative methods to redefine the art academy Develops critical case studies of open source and peer-to-peer methods Advances 'paratechnic' methods to rebuild and reimagine the art academy

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt
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.