The times are a changing...My classes for lack of a better word were getting stale… They were starting to lose their spark and felt to cut and dry. I felt the pressure from the “general academics” to format my class to spew information into students and then have them use said information to manipulate materials. Maxine Greene hit the target in “The Dialectic of Freedom” when she wrote Americans postulate that they are born free. (1988, pg. 1) Are we not told from a young age that this is the land of the free? Yet, when are we teaching students the depth of what freedom really means? Through this course I can notice a slowly evolving change. Little blips of excitement that are enticing my students to learn in a different way, a more unimpeded way. Lately I have been facilitating lessons that incorporate more self built knowledge, proposing students to formulate a deeper reflection of their thoughts. Allowing more freedom, less structure, with less restrictions for creation. Examples of this include allowing students to decide what and how they want to create an architecture project. I had students using sculptural, two dimensional, and technological mediums to convey an altered replica or new structure of architecture. Alongside this project students had to complete a reflection that pushed each one differently because they were not formatted to be right or wrong questions. In Photography students explored the idea of taking a work of art the student felt interest in and recreating it for their photo adaption. They then had to reflect what about the original had intrigued them and how they then tried to honor that through their photo. Here are several examples. Original Artist Credit to Caspar David Friedrich, Andrew Atroshenko, Theodore Gericault, Hector Julio Paride Bernabo, and Vladimir Volegov Not only have I been pushing against constrictions I previously felt a notion to uphold at the high school but also have been exploring various ways to facilitate more well rounded curriculum at the Elementary level. I recently showed my 1st graders the artist Peter Anton. As a class we viewed his “Foodhist” video and I have been considering if they would be receptive to a conversation on our abundance of food here in America how we don’t eat to survive anymore but for indulgence, because we like to eat. How we worship certain kinds of foods that we feel are superior. Just some food for thought…
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