Collectively becoming a/r/tographic
making meaning with young people
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26512/vis.v16i2.20735Keywords:
Little aesthetics. Little publics. Public pedagogy. A/r/tography. Collaborative artAbstract
In an increasingly tight era of standardisation the voices and agency of young people are often placed into confined curriculum spaces. The arts offer a rich playground to explore the world which children and adults navigate. In this paper we present the little aesthetics of youth as they become a/r/tographers collectively: transforming mainstream schooling. Advancing Hickey-Moody’s notion of little publics, we position the a/r/tographic products of children as examples of little aesthetics and as ways to enact pedagogies of resistance and refusal. The work illustrated in this paper rethinks Australian schooling into local and international identities.
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