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Re: Models of leadership and Freire
Nicholas Lowe
Feb 24, 2004 07:57 PST
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My name is Nicholas Lowe- I'm currently based in Chicago Teaching in the Arts Administration MA at the School of the Art Institute. Prior to this I worked in Europe, (UK, France and Germany) I first picked up Friere over ten years ago and yes I do - 'find Freire's model of the revolutionary leader useful on a practical level' Though I think the key information about leadership that he offers concerns what might be called co-creative activity. I wrote a paper called 'Who is Speaking Who is Being Heard' (ref. below) for a conference series at UCE in Birmingham UK, where these issues are explored in some detail with examples. The whole series (there are five books) might be of interest too. There are many other examples and models discussed therein. Art Education Discourses Volume 2 Leaf, Fruit and Seed. p41-60 Ed J Swift, J Swift and A Hughes, Article Press, University Of Central England, 1999. ISBN 1.873352.87.5 http://www.biad.uce.ac.uk/research/ARTiclePress/ARTiclePress1.html The second series is called Disciplines Fields and Change. In the Who is Speaking article I write about work I did in prisons with performance artist Alan Mclean 'The Prison Audio Project' (Arts council of England funded 1992 - 1996) (see also Art With People, Ed. Malcolm Dickson AN Publications Sunderland UK 1995 p85-89 ISBN 0-907730-23-X and artists Newsletter August 1994, p30-32 AN Publications UK ) where video was used as a tool for setting up dialogues about identity providing the participants with an opportunity to express and explore their understandings of themselves in wider society and to re address the way they are represented and mis-represented by the mainstream media. Alan Mcleans work is also worth looking at, (see Identity and Language p16-22 & Snoozyland - Articulating Disability in Art Spaces p 24 both in Drawing Fire The journal of the National Association of Fine Art Education Vol.2 No.2 Winter 1998, ISSN 1358-0973. Faculty of Art Media and Design - University of the West of England. UK.) Freire has also been key to my teaching practice in Higher Education - facilitating environments that are open teaching and learning spaces - I think it's in Pedagogy of Hope that Freire says something about the importance of possessing an 'understanding the world that people have' as a means of at first facilitating this ground or receptive learning space. Teaching in any context for me is a shared process of enquiry where information is rendered mutually useful by all parties in the discussion.
-- Nicholas Lowe Visiting Faculty - MA Arts Administration The School of The Art Institute of Chicago 37 South Wabash Avenue, 4th Floor, Chicago, Illinois, 60603, USA 312 899 5114 http://www.artic.edu/saic/programs/degrees/graduate/maaa.html -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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