A Project of the Winter School
The Winter School explores the historical and philosophical foundations of education. We use the one-room school era as a starting point to discover the origins and evolutions of our current school system. The opening exhibition called History, Notice Me asks “What is the goal of school?” and “Can it be neutral?”. To accompany this exhibition, we created an arts-based social studies curriculum featuring a series of videos, references and related activities.
The curriculum can be engaged with in several different ways, both in person and virtually. In groups or individually. There are many places to drop in and jump off - do it methodically or at random.
As a social studies curriculum we relate the past to the present and situate the individual within the social. All cultures experience both continuity and change – we seek what is inclusive and fundamental to humans across space and time through the lens of education.
Inquiry
Perspective
Rhizome
Time
Relationship
Pedagogy
Curriculum
Expression
Mystery
Emergence
Equality
Reciprocity
History
Standardization
Plurality
The elements are: 1 Video Essay (or in 15 themed segments), 48 Reference Slides and 16 Postcard Activities.
To support the themes in the essay we created video shorts called ‘Reference Slides’. These help to dive deeper into the concepts in the Video Essay by using established references from academia and the arts – like music, literature, film, drawing and photography. Each is around one minute long. For further learning, we list the full credits at the end of each video.
3.3 Pedagogy Is...
3.2b Rugg and Shumaker
4.1 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Credits
Thank you to all the people who have thought about these themes and expressed themselves - check them out!
