Teaching as Art
Reading Materials and Resources
Below are some of the readings which guided our learning:
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Art is Medicine, Helen Molesworth on the work of Simone Leigh
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Democracy and Education by John Dewey (excerpt)
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Education for Socially Engaged Art by Pablo Helguera
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Some Poetic and Social Criteria for Education Design by Seymour Papert
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Tools for Thought by Howard Rheingold
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Independent Study by Emily Gould
Teaching as Art is a class about pedagogy, artist run schools and social practice art. The class has been offered as a graduate level course offered at NYU ITP in 2019, 2018, 2017 and a day long workshop at the Eyeo Festival.
Professor: Taeyoon Choi
with assistance from: Shira Feldman
This class is for artists and creative technologists who want to teach. A good teacher is also a great student themself. They transform their curiosity into knowledge and share their learning processes with others. One can learn to become a better teacher by staying fearless about ‘not knowing’ something, embracing radically open ideas and connecting various expertise and knowledge. Teaching can be a form of artistic and creative practice in collaboration with a diverse community. Teachers can invent new forms of learning spaces, new kinds of collaboration and new senses of community.