NOTES
-Model of teaching in which hierarchy is flipped so the student is central rather than the teacher; finding//creating their own answers
-French theorist; Jacques Ranciere (radicalist) IMPORTANT WORKS 'The Ignorant Schoolmaster' (1991) 'The Politics of Aesthetics' (2006)
-May 1968 Paris, though later other parts of France, started a revolution
-Started by the students, supported by the workers
-Apposing high education being elitist, expensive, unreachable to working class and black people, courses being specialised//overly specific which was disempowering them. Felt as though they were just training to be another cog in the machine (counter culture growing)
-UNEF "On the Poverty of Student Life'
-L'Ecole de Beux Arts (Art school taken over May 14th by students)
-Visually communicating the message of revolution
-Louis Althusser; 'Ideological state Apparatus' things in place the maintain the capitalist culture
-Jacques Ranciere was a student of Althusser and participating student of the May '68 movement
- 'The Distribution of the Sensible' theme underlying all his work
- The world is not available to all, it's separated and distrobuted to certain people. People separated into categories, feel their groups are sub-par or lesser than other groups; become pigeon-holed.
- Don't just label people but also prevents people taking part in specific events
- This distribution is maintained but the 'police' AKA 'the man' people can also be self policed
-Uses an example of classroom in which people teach themselves
-Shows people can learn for themselves//teach each other//peers
-The Society of Contempt; race to the bottom, everyone biting at each other
-Challenging that, what if we start from the opposite? What could be accomplished?
-Knows it won't happen but wants to announce it to highlight how we could improve the current situation
-The School of the Damned; closest to working Ranciere ideals of learning
-Established London 2013
- Free post-grad programme for art students
-Completely student ran
- A human exchange in creative labour (no visiting lecturer is paid cash)
-Critical, and outside of, Capitalism
-All highlights a problem specific to society not just education
-Self education is the key to emancipation!
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