On education and cultural production

Friday October 18 -- 1-3:15 pm (Milbank Chapel)

Lawrence Cremin's untimely death left unfinished and unattended an avenue of educational inquiry first instantiated by Bernard Bailyn in 1954. Among the open questions, as both McClintock (2009) and Varenne (2007) have argued, is the relation of educative activity to cultural production. This panel re-engages and extends Cremin's project by addressing two interrelated questions. First, it addresses the descriptive question of which institutions are educative today. Second, it demonstrates the process of cultural production as refracted through instructive activity. This perspective requires we change the frame of inquiry from focusing on what is retained by individuals in a prescribed learning environment to focusing on the poetics of instructive action.

Chair: Bruce Burnside (Teachers College, Columbia University)

• Jones, Allison (McGill University)
  • "Challenging and Creating Citizenship and Community in a Montreal Home-learning Centre"
• Nicewonger, Todd (Teachers College, Columbia University)
  • "Re-imagining Anthropology and Education through Design"
• Scroggins, Michael (Teachers College, Columbia University)
  • "From the Wilderness to Design Thinking:  Elective Affinities Along the Road Not Taken"
• Tawasil, Amina (Northwestern University)
  • "Mobaheseh (Argumentation) in Tehran: the Howzevi (Seminarian) Woman's Practice of Seeking Dissensus"
• Van Tiem, Jennifer (Teachers College, Columbia University)
  • "Weighing a Horse with a Likert Scale: Problems Around Assessment in Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy"
    

Discussant: Lesley Bartlett (Teachers College, Columbia University)