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The book explores possibilities for happening in education. It outlines characteristics for happening which are viewed in relation to educational discourses to determine how learners and teachers might be involved. In connection with this, the author considers critical pedagogy, teaching as a liminal practice, creative pedagogy and multiple intelligences. The book also provides details of a participatory research strategy, based upon bricolage and the rhizome, implemented for an inquiry into happening and EFL teaching in a Polish school. The author suggests there may be resistance to the use of happening in schools due to the dominance of transmission-based teaching and unfavourable attitudes towards creativity.
Sommario
Happening - Visual art -Theatre - School and society - Critical Pedagogy - Teaching as a liminal practice - Creative Pedagogy - Multiple intelligences - Participatory research - Bricolage - Rhizome-tumbleweed - Compulsory schooling - EFL teaching
Info autore
Martin Blaszk holds a doctorate in Pedagogy from the University of Gdäsk (Poland), where he is employed at the Institute of English and American Studies. His research interests include happening, creativity in education and teacher education.
Riassunto
The mysterious death of President Harding in 1923 is only the curtain raiser to this extraordinary novel of magic and science. Charles Carter is Carter the Great, a name given to him by the supreme showman, Harry Houdini. Carter was born into privilege but became a magician out of need. Only at the moment of the performance, when an audience is brought together by a single experience, can Carter defeat his crippling fear of loneliness. But with every step into the twentieth Century, the stakes are growing higher. Science and the cinema are fast out-stripping even the master magician and instead of that single magic moment, there is only a headlong rush into an uncertain future.
Prefazione
At the birth of the Jazz Age in San Francisco, the magician Charles Carter walks on to the stage of the Curran Theatre for the most daring performance of his life. Two hours later, President Warren G. Harding will be dead.
Testo aggiuntivo
As a portrait of the Golden Age of Magic, it works brilliantly... Equally good, in a very different vein, are the accounts of Carter's love life ... Gold has captured the high-wire excitement of the age
