Some of the ideas I’ll be exploring in the months — my research semester starts in 18 months — to come.
- Dewey’s pragmatism, as laid out in Democracy and Education, How We Think, and Art as Experience.
- Experiential learning, as laid out by David Kolb and critiqued / refined by several others since.
- Donald Schön’s observations and theories on reflection in action / praxis, with special attention to Lisa Candy’s The Reflective Creative Practitioner.
- Vygotsky, of course. The zone of proximal learning and scaffolding are key concepts in any educational programme geared towards developing both technical and artistic skills.
- Seymour Papert’s constructionism. In filmmaking programmes, the students learn best when actually making films, both for purely internal critique but also for public distribution through festivals and the like.
- Situated learning and «legitimate peripheral participation» as analysed by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger.
- And, as I’ve already mentioned, 4E cognition, with special emphasis on how it relates to creativity and craft.
* I’m lousy at titles. I might end up using some variation of the number of the post for 2024. Or not.
