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Position #2
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The following lists are collectively written and may occasionally contradict themselves. This is OK. Questions The Public School should pose, concepts it should address, realities it should engage with, and ethics it should encourage. * Challenge goal-oriented pedagogical models that promote economic value to learning.
* Arts education as a space for for open-ended inquiry and speculation.
* Continuous mobility between positions of teacher, student, and school administrator.
* Build a sustainable economy that doesn’t rely on volunteerism.
* Enact a model that can be adopted in other locations.
* Encourage multiple competing approaches to the same subject.
* Interdisciplinarianism (or: adisciplinarianism?)
* Engagement with the community (via events / exhibitions / calls for participation)
What kinds of classes/ subjects should The Public School promote? * The expert and the amateur.
* Reading small amounts, slowly and carefully.
* Mutation of the arts following technological advances.
* Practical courses for practicing artists.
* Collaborative projects.
* The role of theory and criticism now and then.
* Obsolescence.
* Very specific, ideologically loaded software classes
* Games and play.
* Multiple political -isms (conservatism, neo-conservatism, liberalism, neo-liberalism, etc.)
* Structures of production in the arts.
* War and police.
* Peace and protesters.
* Screenings.
* Exhibitions.
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