2018
DOI: 10.1111/jade.12186
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Agency and Social Construction: Practice of the Self in Art and Design

Abstract: Learning in the arts has the potential to be a co‐constructive means of inquiry for students, which enables experience of the self in relation to practice. This research explores a practice‐based investigation of agency as self‐definition, amid normative social constructions of the subject. The focus for data analysis is a project taught to BTEC Level 2 Art and Design students in a deprived area of North London (2010–12). A dialogue is presented between the implications for Sartre's theory of free‐will and a F… Show more

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“…In this case Sartre prioritises free will in learning, and the student's spark of agency in working through an ethical dilemma (Matthews 2018b). Sartre as philosopher and educator signals a turning point, which corresponds with Rogoff's 'educational turn' (Rogoff 2008, Graham, Graziano andKelly 2016) so that we can visualise the removal of social constraints upon our life choices.…”
Section: Free Will and Learningmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In this case Sartre prioritises free will in learning, and the student's spark of agency in working through an ethical dilemma (Matthews 2018b). Sartre as philosopher and educator signals a turning point, which corresponds with Rogoff's 'educational turn' (Rogoff 2008, Graham, Graziano andKelly 2016) so that we can visualise the removal of social constraints upon our life choices.…”
Section: Free Will and Learningmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Existentialism encourages us to question passive learning patterns and invite active participation (Detmer 2005). When young people have the space to talk about choices they would like to make, they can also discuss issues in society that they feel are holding them back (Matthews 2018b). In these discussions we may begin with a question such as, 'What would you do if you could make your choices in complete freedom?'…”
Section: Active Creative and Questioningmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In observing the world, finding order and pattern within it, and creating their own symbols and abstracted units from their experience of the, children are approaching the roots of language and symbolic thought, and also centring themselves within their experience of the world, creating their own visual 'language' to make sense of it. He argues that the sense of empowerment that children experience in this way is a kind of energy, or 'contagion', which 'passes like fire from spirit to spirit' (Barry 1937: 26) and is experienced on a collective as well as an individual level (Matthews 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%