Threads of Investigation: Pedagogy of Pedagogy

From Funding To Franchise Workshop 15 October 2011

Written on October 15, 2011

http://www.variant.org.uk/events/transoct/TransOct.html

Dear Glasgow Open School,

We are feeling an increasing imperative to try to really understand the dramatic shifts that appear to be taking place in public funding in this country through Creative Scotland. Simply through picking up on the sound bite language that is being circulated and the modeling of a business strategy approach to arts funding, there would seem to be not only a lack of awareness of the principles on which public support for cultural diversity is based but also a thoroughly ideological agenda being written into the future of funding for the arts.

At the different levels at which they are funded, galleries and arts organisations seem to be meeting and sharing information about what is happening. It seems, to us really important that individuals affiliated with artist-run and autonomous groups also have an awareness of what might be taking place (we mean ourselves but are hoping others might feel the same). Obviously not all artist-run groups receive direct funding or may even want to receive funding, but we are increasingly thinking of the necessity of a collective understanding of the way the landscape may be being re-written. This may affect artists directly or indirectly… Read more

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Summer Schools Tools

Written on May 25, 2011

Dear Open School,

If you haven’t yet heard, there are (so far) two free summer schools in Glasgow with constituencies that some of us are very close to (and “some of us” of course also means “some of you”).

The first is hosted by Transmission Gallery. June 13th-18th The second is hosted by the Free Hetherington Research Club. June 27th – July 3rd Both aim to address the recent educational struggles and alternative educational models.

We would like to invite Open School to respond to these proposals, and work towards a set of tools that can be used for participation or intervention with the summer schools.

If you are interested, please join us at 6pm on Wednesday May 25th at 61 West Princes Street

Below are some images of notes made in groups during the Workshop on Self-Organisation in Education which happened at the Glue Factory on April 30th 2011

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Proposal 2: Summer School -Postponed

Written on May 13, 2011

Proposal 2: Ways of knowing and ways of knowing the city

An invitation to anyone involved or interested in how the city is shaped by knowledged.

Conversations towards a summer series of experimental learning situations.

Postponed, details to follow. Glue Factory, Farnell Street

You can help devise this event at the editable document

The second of a series of two events looking at proposals for experiments in education over the summer.
A chance for groups to look at each others proposal in a critical and inventive atmosphere.

Devised in part by Glasgow Open School, Glasgow People’s Assemblies,
The Free Hetherington and thiscollection.

Radical Pedagogies : Institutions

After deindustrialisation Glasgow has come to concentrate on an idea of a knowledge economy.

What is the role of education practices in the knowledge based city?

What do we know about contemporary society, and how have we come to know it?

How do different ways of knowing constitute different notions of what is public in the city?

Space to reflect on the presented manifesto from previous event.

movement from individual to collective reflection, then to interpretation and then a proposal for further action with the question ‘what would we do if we could?’

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dis-place thiscollection: collective curatorship? open education?

Written on April 30, 2011

at the Glue Factory from April 30th – 14th of May 2011

thiscollection is an attempt at a collective curatorship, GOS hopes to use thiscollection as context and provocation for discussions around alternative modes of education. This will include an open forum on the 30th April and 14th May. All welcome.

‘thiscollection’ on ‘thiscollection’:

All are very welcome, we look to open engagement and reflection with the joys and pitfalls of attempts at collective becoming.

‘thiscollection presents a library of 56 films and 100 poems from professionals to amatuers collected from the postcodes of Edinburgh to the public for DIY curation.

…Collaborators are invited to browse the library and the processes of thiscollection’s previous showcases and in turn become eventologists or curators in the Glue Factory based on their selections.’

A Kino Pravda? A People’s Museum? An age of media patronage? what will this forest of contributions tell us? What will you bring to the conversation?

thiscollection seeks to understand how it can become… Read more

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Website as Framework:

Written on March 5, 2011

This proposal was written in the beginning of march. We would like to offer up a continued proposal for the development of this framework.
In December 2010, in an editable document, the open school collectively stated:

“Glasgow Open School is not a group; it is an accumulated set of conditions. It consists in lists of strategies for improvised research practice. Wary / hopeful for the past, wary / hopeful for and orientated towards the future. It is a dissemination / amalgamation of ideas that amount to an active narrative of context, critical positions, struggle and ways of being together. Through performance and other techniques, ideas are presented and developed… This research is a practice without end.” (From Google Doc: GOS Editing Project: A complicated being together 18 December 2010)

Glasgow Open School acts as an amorphous process, ready to fall in and out of the lives of the people who engage with it as a shared learning and a complicated process of togetherness. In this instance, four people are making this proposal on behalf of the Glasgow Open School. In doing so we are co-opting the open school, an attempt to seize control in the hope… Read more

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Fortnightly Pedagogies Experimental Reading Group

Written on January 7, 2011

Fortnightly(ish) from Tuesday 25th January 7pm-9pm
With tea and toast and vegan butter
Location: 2-2 / 12 Ruthven Street (near Hillhead Tube Station)

Please edit this page

How do we ‘know’ ?
How do we learn?
What is education?
Where is education?

Pedagogy ‘to lead the child’
the pedagogy of: the teacher/ the collective/ the class/ class/ the question/ the proposition/ the document/ silence/ cacophony/ discourse/ the metropolis/ the body/ the ear/ the vision/ prehension/ the dogma/ of no dogma/ the student/ the movementCan we continue to unground ourselves?

Lets make a pedagogy of reading/thinking about/ enacting within pedagogy

What is the pedagogy of everyday life?

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Where do these come in?
Paulo Freire
Ivan Illich
Steiner/Waldorf
That random conversation you had on the tube

How might we go about this?
Let’s make this less tedious than it sounds.

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Free Introductory Workshops in Popular Education for Activism and Organizing

Written on January 7, 2011

9.30 – 5.30pm Jan 15th, Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow

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What connects fuel poverty in Clydebank, a dangerous liquid gas plant in Southall, hunger in Westerhailes, and destructive open-cast mines at Douglas and Merthyr Tydfil? A political system and culture that treats both people and our living world as disposable waste. And at one end is exploitation – at the other is catastrophic climate change. Along the way is gross inequality, toxic environments, greed and violence.

Eager to move from interest toward building creative solutions? Sign up for a day of introductory popular education and creative organizing workshops, designed to inspire alternative approaches to campaigning and community resistance.

The day will have three sessions on 1) creating spaces for dialogue and decision-making, 2) mapping and diagramming concerns and solutions, and 3) using theatre for collective learning and action.

Join us at the Pearce Institute, Govan Road, Govan, Glasgow, from 9:30 to 5:30 Saturday, January 15, 2011. The day is FREE, lunch is provided and transport will be reimbursed upon presentation of public transport receipts.

This day is presented by So We Stand, an emerging grassroots movement of people who consciously work for empowering… Read more

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Free University of Glasgow

Written on November 19, 2010

http://commonsensejournal.org.uk/files/2010/08/CommonSense02.pdf

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alter-education, alter-pedagogy, alter-university

Written on October 26, 2010

Click ‘read more’ to get to the editable doc!

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Self-organisation at the level of sensory perception

Written on October 20, 2010

Thursday 28th October -7pm at 61 West Princes Street

Following on from the embodiment and sensory perception workshop some of the participants will introduce some of the practice to people at the Open School. This could include learning to eat things slowly -exploring cell relations – touching each other.

Searching for a sensory base to be critical from.

Reclaim your senses. Explore the idea that Capitalism is re-producing itself at the level of sensory perception.

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