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12. Methodology Mash-up:
Understanding Paolo Freire through Sol
Lewitt:
It occurred to me while I was reading Sol
Lewitt’s “Doing Wall Drawings” that the words
“artist” and “draftsman” are interchangeable with
“teacher” and “student” and that Lewitt’s
musings about his own work could be a good
praxis for teaching. The teacher needs to have
the freedom to be an artist to allow “various
interpretations of his/her plan”. A student needs
to be more like a draftsman in “realizing”
learning--s/he “perceives and reorders this plan
to his/her understanding and experience”.
Teachers and students “become collaborators”
where the student is an active participant in
his/her own learning.
13. The philosophy of problem-posing education is
the foundation of modern critical pedagogy.
To the influential Brazilian Marxist scholar Paulo
Freire, dialogue is the key to breaking down what he
calls the “banking system” of education where the
teacher “deposits” information to student. Problem-
posing education on the other hand recognizes that
knowledge is not deposited from teacher to student but
is instead constructed through dialogue between the
two. This dynamic results in what Freire has called the
“teacher-student, student-teacher” relationship.
The Problem-posing Education
of Paolo Freire
14. Engage and Innovate:
“ The average preschooler asks their parents
100 questions a day…By middle school
they’ve pretty much stopped asking. It’s no
coincidence that this same time is when
student motivation and engagement plummet.
They didn’t stop asking questions because
they lost interest: it’s the other way around.
They lost interest because they stopped
asking questions.”
15. Engage and Innovate:
Convergent and Divergent thinking
How do we solve problems that we have not
anticipated yet?
How do we think across disciplines with open-
ended questions and solutions as well as
conventional and logical reasoning?
Multiple solutions: problem-finding, idea-finding,
solution finding=plan of action
16. Oblique Strategies (100 Worthwhile
Problems)
Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt
"These cards evolved from our separate
working procedures. It was one of the many
cases during the friendship where we [Peter
Schmidt and Brian Eno] arrived at a working
position at almost exactly the same time and
almost in exactly the same words. There were
times when we hadn't seen each other for a few
months at a time sometimes, and upon re-
meeting or exchanging letters, we would find
that we were in the same intellectual position –
which was quite different from the one we'd
been in prior to that.”
17.
18. A Few Examples
Oblique Strategies
Brian Eno and Peter
Schmidt
Mental Notes
Stephen P. Anderson
UX Trading Cards
nForm User Experience
Method Cards
IDEO
MetaMemes
Kes Sampanthar
NASDA Studios: Methodology
- Oblique Inspiration
Flashcards
21. Engage and Innovate:
What do you do?
What tools/strategies do you use?
Do you have a favorite quote or idea that you
return to when working on a project?
22. Toolbox
Feel Imagine Do Share
Freeform capture and Blank slate=Get it out
Limitations-Before you begin: look at or,
consciously set limitations.
Seek Different Opinions
Creative prompts
23. Round-Robin Brainstorming
Around the table: give each team a stack of cards
Research question is named. Questions?
Each person takes a card and writes down one idea.
S/he passes the card to the person on the right.
Without talking, that person reads the card and uses it to
generate a new idea. S/he then turns the first card
upside down in the stack and passes the new card (with
the new idea) to the right.
Continue for 10 minutes
At the end, the facilitator gathers the cards. Each idea is
read aloud, and the cards are then arranged and
grouped on a whiteboard or wall, with duplicates
discarded.
Editor's Notes
LeWitt, Sol, Alicia Legg, and Lucy R. Lippard. Sol LeWitt: the Museum of Modern Art New York. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1978. Print.Lewitt’s approach to collaboration reminded me of Paolo Freire’s dynamic and dialogic “problem-posing education”.
(Freire; 1990: 67).
Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, Newsweek July 10, 2010 http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.print.htmlPo Bronson is an American journalist and former bond trader.Ashley Merryman is writer and lawyer in Los Angeles and Al Gore’s former speech writer.
The Oblique Strategies evolved from me being in a number of working situations when the panic of the situation – particularly in studios – tended to make me quickly forget that there were others ways of working and that there were tangential ways of attacking problems that were in many senses more interesting than the direct head-on approach. If you're in a panic, you tend to take the head-on approach because it seems to be the one that's going to yield the best results Of course, that often isn't the case – it's just the most obvious and – apparently – reliable method. The function of the Oblique Strategies was, initially, to serve as a series of prompts which said, "Don't forget that you could adopt *this* attitude," or "Don't forget you could adopt *that* attitude."
Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, practised, embodied, or realized. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practising ideas. This has been a recurrent topic in the field of philosophy, discussed in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Paulo Freire, and many others. It has meaning in political, educational, and spiritual realms.
“Socrates distinguishes “disputatious” and “friendly” forms of dialogue…in both forms the joint endeavour is to propose and oppose, to formulate arguments and to put forth counterexamples and counterarguments, as the mechanism by which truth is ascertained. It is an intriguing feature of this view, reflected later in a different context in the work of Freire and others, that this philosophical conception of dialogue coincides with a preferred pedagogy…Dialogue is a way of drawing forth latent, unformed understandings and facilitating the discovery of truths by the learner for himself or herself—hence the ubiquity of teachers from law schools to kindergartens to adult literacy programs ascribing their teaching to “the Socratic method” (though this method never comprised only one style of teaching).” (Burbules, N., 2000: 253)
Method DIY Planner5 people per groupThis is used to stimulate discussion or more ideas, preferably on another whiteboard or some mind-mapping software on a projector.
