Art, Disobedience, and Ethics: The Adventure of Pedagogy [Hardcover]

This book explores art practice and learning as processes that break new ground, through which new perceptions of self and world emerge. Examining art practice in educational settings where emphasis is placed upon a pragmatics of the suddenly possible, Atkinson looks at the issues of ethics, aesthetics, and politics of learning and teaching. These learning encounters drive students beyond the security of established patterns of learning into new and modified modes of thinking, feeling, seeing, and making. 

 Dennis Atkinson is Professor Emeritus at Goldsmiths University of London, UK. 

This book explores art practice and learning as processes that break new ground, through which new perceptions of self and world emerge. Examining art practice in educational settings where emphasis is placed upon a pragmatics of the suddenly possible, Atkinson looks at the issues of ethics, aesthetics, and politics of learning and teaching. These learning encounters drive students beyond the security of established patterns of learning into new and modified modes of thinking, feeling, seeing, and making. 

First book to employ the philosophical writing of Alfred North Whitehead in this field to examine processes of learning and pedagogical work Focuses upon real learning and pedagogical work and their relational and intensive processes of 'becoming' Presents the nolCË