Artist-Teacher Practice and the Expectation of an Aesthetic Life

Carol Wild is Senior Lecturer in Art and Design Education and Subject Leader for the PGCE Art and Design at the Institute of Education, University College London. She was previously Programme Leader for the Artist Teacher Scheme and MA Arts and Education Practices at Birmingham City University.

Introduction: Imagining new orientations for researching artist-teacher practice in neoliberal spaces through the inspiration of new materialisms and new pragmatisms. Part 1: Classroom ways-of-being. Introduction to Part 1. Turn 1: Artist-teacher practice, site-responsiveness and the classroom as aesthetic movement. Turn 2: Artist-teacher practice and creative, transformative, therapeutic objects in the classroom. Turn 3: Artist-teacher practice, becoming the ideal teacher and the disorientation of classroom subjects. Part 2: Being less-than. Introduction to Part 2. Turn 4: Reading about knowledge with Bourdieu and Bernstein: Artist-teacher practice, School Art and powerful knowing. Turn 5: Reading about creativity with Deleuze and Foucault: Artist-teacher practice, neoliberalism and the impossible ideal. Part 3: Becoming more than... Introduction to Part 3. Turn 6: Reading Rancière and Dewey with Jane Bennet: Reconfiguring the politics of the classroom through artist-teacher practice as a third-thing. Turn 7: The gendering of artist-teacher practice: Nurturing the expectation of an aesthetic life through third-site encounters. Conclusion: Sharing responsibility for a life lived aesthetically with art and design education.