Detournement as Pedagogical Praxis / edited by James Trier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trier, James, volume editor.

Series:

Foundations and Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Situationist International (SI) was a Paris-based artistic and political avant-garde group that formed in 1957, went through three distinct phases during its existence, and dissolved in 1972. In 1967, SI leader Guy Debord published his book The Society of the Spectacle, which presents his theory of how “the Spectacle” (i.e., the Capitalist system in its totality) works endlessly (though not always successfully) to transform people into spectators whose sole purposes are to consume commodities and to live de-politicized, passive, isolated, and contemplative lives. To challenge and subvert “the Spectacle,” Debord and his SI associates theorized and practiced the anti-spectacular critical art they called “detournement,” which entails reusing existing artistic and mass-produced elements to create new combinations or ensembles. As Debord wrote in 1956, detournement has the potential to be “a powerful cultural weapon in the service of real class struggle.” In this edited book, the authors contribute chapters about how they created their own detournements and used them as central audio-visual texts in critical projects that they designed and carried out in a variety of pedagogical situations. Most of the projects involved preservice teachers in teacher education courses, and the anti-spectacular purposes include challenging Hollywood’s problematic representations of Native Americans, subverting the racist stereotypes of Latin@s in a popular children’s book, and critiquing the neoliberal agenda of the charter school movement. This book offers readers detailed accounts of pedagogical projects that can serve as examples of the critical possibilities of detournement.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / James Trier

The Introduction to Detournement as Pedagogical Praxis / James Trier

A Detournement of Joe Clark’s Problematic “Motto” of Personal Agency in Lean on Me / James Trier

Juan Skippy: A Critical Detournement of Skippyjon Jones / Amy Senta

The Hollywood Indian Goes to School / Trey Adcock

Detournement as Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy and Invitation to Crisis / Ashley Boyd

In God’s Country / Tim Conder

Challenging Waiting for Superman through Detournement / James Trier

Detourning the Charterization of New Orleans Public Schools with Preservice Teachers / Joseph D. Hooper

Revisiting “Sordid Fantasies” / Jason Mendez.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

94-6209-800-X

OCLC:

891177159