Flourishing: Art, Participation and the World to Come

Posted by Alasdair Foster on 23 October 2018 · Leave a Comment 

> How can we flourish? We have come to understand both art education and creativity as forms of industry; as the means by which to generate trained individuals and monetisable artefacts. It is a technocratic approach that understands value in narrow measurable terms that are ranked by metrics employed to determine relative success or failure. … Continue reading →

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Empowering Children to Realise Their Creativity

Posted by Alasdair Foster on 30 April 2016 · 2 Comments 

:: The Wrong Side of the Looking Glass :: “Children are born with a strong propensity for creativity, but conventional education is specifically structured to remove it by the time they reach puberty. This shapes children to become adults in a looking-glass world in which they consume other people’s ideas rather than working together to … Continue reading →

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