Annie Bingham

Annie Bingham

“Centering, Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”. Pedagogy chapter.

  • Thinking about art education, especially for kids
  • Author was faculty at Black Mountain College
  • Steiner pedagogy
  • Suggester has read this
  • Teacher-role relation to child
  • “To my class” poem. MC Richards
  • Annie is student at Sarah Lawrence. Poetry is how she processes!
  • Book makes it possible to envision the school life

Andrius Kulikauskas links to “Designing natural forms”

Jimmy Mathews

I searched:

  • Google Scholar
  • NYPL catalog
  • Anarchist Library
  • Workplace: Journal of Academic Labor

Types of things I selected:

  • Narrow, personal/individual-level critiques or suggestions for conduct that incorporates both rigorous study (including theory) and action. Intellectual.
  • “Experiment-results”-type historical material. This is the Dewey stuff and Chautauqua stuff.
  • Old, old texts. To gain perspective
  • Work about old, old institutions.

Have not done a proper search for university-management texts aimed at practical advice for administrators. But this is something we should do.

Josh Meyers

  • “The Ignorant Schoolmaster”. Surprise idea about teaching capability.
  • The Undercommons. Annie has read some of this!
  • Dark Academia. Decent overview, if superficial.
  • One Size Does Not Fit All. Critique of school from high school student.
  • Education Automation. Heard great things about Buckminister Fuller.
  • Education in a Time Between Worlds. Stein. Kind of skeptical.
  • The Rise of Universities. Concise! Recommended by Russell Dale.
  • How to support intellectual stuff is important.
  • Lots of recommendations from Christopher Perrin Lecture “School as Schole”
  • Importance of “leisure” (appropriately defined)
  • Minjian: The Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals
  • Miseducation of the Negro. Heard it’s really important.

Annie Bingham: Have some knowledge about non-western education from time in Nepal. Battle between … agricultural and global/practical/business knowledge.

Andrius Kulikauska (math for wisdom). Subtlety about possible harm of literacy movement.

Max Romero

  • The Use and Abuse of Art. Barzun. Author witnessed all kinds of artistic movements of 20th century. Writes about them. Max says philosophical stances is important pre-requisite for institution building
  • Excellence Without a Soul. Harvard admin. Distinction between college and university.
  • The Paper Belt on Fire. Gibson. Max says, reading this will lead to optimism about realizing a new university-type thing.
  • Discussion of funding possibilities and hazards

Theodore Keloglou

  • The Ignorant Schoolmaster.
  • Deschooling Society. Ivan Illich. Taught in Washington Heights NYC in 1970s.
  • Free Schools. Kozol. Created schools for people ‘left behind”. Just do it!

Josh again, summarizing

Many reasons for recommending books:

  • historical interest
  • classics in field of alternative education (Goldman, …, John Taylor Gatto)
  • history of schools/scholarly institutions
  • funding side
  • pedagogy side

Andrius

  1. A subcategory where we don’t need to know the contents in detail.
  2. A subcategory where at least 1 person needs to read in detail.
  3. Some where everyone reads!

Limit the “required reading”. Do “divide and conquer”.

Josh

  • Need better organization in Zotero
  • Identify research questions