Place-based learning through the arts for uncertain times
Artefacts of the Future draws on three main pedagogical frameworks:
Arts-based pedagogy (multiple theorists)
Critical pedagogy of place (Greenwood, 2003)
Pedagogy for uncertain times (Tauritz, 2016)
Arts as the medium for learning
Expect to use the Arts (visual arts, drama, music, dance, media, and design) to explore, learn about, question, consider, reflect and comment on, act in, and restore the world.
Possibilities of alterity
Play out, embody, and create possibilities of alterity, or acting differently.
Awareness of power
Be attentive to how power and culture work through places to enhance and/or limit human and environmental potential.
Embracing uncertainty
Accept and embrace uncertainty and ongoing processes of becoming, rather than seeking certainty and completion.
Ongoing transformation
Seek transformation but remain flexible as to what that transformation will be.
Grounded learning
Ground learning in your local place and community. Learning will occur in and out of school.
Sense of wonder
Cultivate a sense of wonder towards the places you inhabit, along with your awareness of cultural and ideological forces that threaten these places, and your motivation to act.
Safe-enough learning
Create learning environments that are ‘safe enough’ but offer opportunities for risk-taking.