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Filtering Reality and Fashion as Pedagogy
C. GuertinUOIT | EDUC5199G
22 Sept 2015
Jill Walker Rettberg proposes the idea that our reality is
seen through ‘filters’ that can be
technological, cultural or
cognitive
“Facebook filters our news feed and it also filters our behaviour. Cultural filters are as important as
technological filters. Our cultural filters, the rules and conventions that guide us, filter out possible modes of expression so subtly that we often are not even aware
of all the things that we do not see.”
In what ways do these filters aestheticise, anaesthetise, and defamiliarize us from the everyday?
Artist Candy Chang, “Before I Die”:https://www.ted.com/talks/candy_chang_before_i_die_i_want_to?language=en
Why is defamiliarization a key attribute of art (according to Rettberg and Shklovsky)?
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars
http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/08/07/william-shakespeare-star-wars/
In what ways can and does
popular culture defamiliarize the
everyday?
The Death of Cool: Ryan Adams & Taylor Swift (“We all live in Taylor Swift’s world now.”)
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/reviews/a38138/ryan-adams-taylor-swift-1989/
In what way do selfies act as a filter, according to Rettberg?
Syreeta McFadden, teaching the camera to see blackness
http://www.buzzfeed.com/syreetamcfadden/teaching-the-camera-to-see-my-skin#.hcxqj7Gzy
What were Shirley Cards? How did they function? What was one of their side effects?
On the racism of Shirley Cards: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jan/25/racism-colour-photography-exhibition
Popular Culture Board for inspiration on Pinterest:
https://www.pinterest.com/carolynguertin/pop-culture/
Empowerment through agency
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Wong and Henriksen want us to think of fashion as a verb: as an act of personal expression and creative
production
Why is fashion such a deeply engaging experience?
How do we make school more compelling for students?
Flow
How do we make school more compelling for students?
• Student-centred instruction• Relevance (connect material to student’s lives)• Incorporate experiential qualities• Use visual or tactile forms of expression• Engage the emotions• Involve the imagination and considerations of the possible• Invoke anticipating, hoping, dreaming, wishing, desiring,
and becoming: bridge the actual and the allusive• Make it mindful, vital and lively• Use fashion as a verb: to fashion, to style, to create
How did the Silhouette iPod ads grab our attention?
How are:• the psychological,
social, and cultural dynamics of a new fashion item similar to the dynamics of a new idea?
• (Wong, p. 181)
Fashion (verb) = imagination, creation, and expression
Maker Culture
• The metaphor of learning as the fashioning of ideas actually shares much in common with mainstream metaphors such as – learning as identity formation,– Learning as participation in shared activities– Learning as language appropriation
• Connections facilitate the comprehension and assimilation of new ideas
“We Are Makers”
Watch to 4:40: https://vimeo.com/66162292
Style is substance
How do we use culture to motivate learning in our classes?
• Breakout rooms: 6 groups of 4 • 2 groups – elementary• 2 groups – secondary
• 2 groups – adult education
• Give concrete examples
How do we employ ‘deep inclinations’ like fashion in our classes?
• Wong and Hendricksen ask, "What kinds of phenomena do people seem to be deeply engaged by across time and across age groups?”
• One enduring phenomena of fascination was fashion: – people of all ages, across time, are drawn to fashion.
(Examples of other "deep inclinations” include an almost innate fascination with sublime experiences, the idea of redemption, sex and violence, heroes, and tales of love overcoming great odds.)
According to Rettberg,
• the ideal neoliberal is an entrepreneur. “An effective neoliberal subject, Marwick argues, ‘attends to fashions, is focused on self-improvement, and purchases goods and services to achieve ‘self-realization.’ He or she is comfortable integrating market logics into many aspects of life, including education, parenting, and relationships.”
