This page includes bibliographies and reading lists on co-operative art education, alternative art schools, radical pedagogy and self-organisation. They accompany the research project A co-operative art school? and the directory of alternative art schools. For a collectively compiled syllabus on art education and radical pedagogy see the Radical Pedagogy Research Group.
Submissions are open for the first issue of URgh! on alternative art education. The zine will explore and document alternative art education in self-organised, DIY, peer-led art schools and collectives.
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What would a co-operative art school look like? How would it work? Who is it for and what would the benefits be? Come along to a series of workshops at Conway Hall to discuss these questions and collectively explore potential models for a co-operative form of art education. Please click here for more information on the workshop series. To book please follow the links below.
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The Radical Pedagogy Research Group is a public forum and peer-led participatory action-research project on alternative art education, radical pedagogy and self-organisation, with the practical aim of developing a self-organised alternative studio programme. The reading group meets on the last Friday of every month, it is free and open to everyone who wants to join as long as they commit to the reading. We plan to organise additional workshops, screenings and other events that will emerge from our research. Please book your place and download the reading.
Continue reading Radical Pedagogy Research & Reading Group (2019)
Directory of alternative art schools, free schools, projects, support networks and vanguards of the alternative education movement. Please get in touch if you are associated with a school, project or network that is not on this list, or if you want to amend or expand the entry.
For more titles on alternative art education see School of the Damned‘s online Open Library, Antiuniversity Now‘s collaborative Antiuni Reader, a public reading list on radical education and anarchist pedagogy (where you can add your own suggestions), and Evening Class‘s categorised are.na resource sharing and bookmarking channel.
Continue reading ALTERNATIVE (ART) EDUCATION & RADICAL PEDAGOGY Bibliography
Preliminary methodology reading list for a research project on alternative art education and radical pedagogy initiated by members of ART&CRITIQUE in 2016.
