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Practicing Engagement, Isabella Powers Yannoni
Practicing Engagement, Isabella Powers Yannoni
Senior Projects Spring 2018
For this project I lead two rehearsal processes with peers, and a movement class for middle schoolers, all of which centered around engagement. I have investigated how my own and others’ engagement can contribute to a rich experience for participants and observers, using collaborative games and storytelling as a means of working with these ideas. I believe in the power of questioning together, as opposed to determining alone. Throughout these processes, we, the participants, have learned from each other and have had to re-negotiate our roles and responsibilities to the work as well as to each other.
Dancing with people …
Two Concepts Of Education, Vikramaditya H. Joshi
Two Concepts Of Education, Vikramaditya H. Joshi
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
The foundation of the current discourse on education is grounded in the funding and distribution of a ‘good’ called education. The Common Core State Standards, as a set of shared goals stipulated by the federal government, considers education to be a “stepping stone” towards joining the workforce in a competitive global marketplace. The lexicon of economic commodities instrumentalizes education due to its tacit assumption that education is a means to an occupational end. It treats education as an individual possession deposited by a school, via its teachers, into …