scholarly journals Advancing book clubs as non-formal learning to facilitate critical public pedagogy in organizations

2021 ◽  
pp. 135050762110298
Author(s):  
Robin S Grenier ◽  
Jamie L Callahan ◽  
Kristi Kaeppel ◽  
Carole Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Book Clubs ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Cultural Artifact ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
A Site ◽  
Critical Public Pedagogy

Book clubs are a well-known form of social engagement and are beneficial for those who take part, yet book clubs are not fully realized within management as a site for learning. This is unfortunate because book clubs that read fiction can foster social processes and help employees in search of more critical and emancipatory forms of learning. We theoretically synthesize the literature to advance current thinking with regard to book clubs as critical public pedagogy in organizations. We begin by introducing book clubs as non-formal adult learning. Then, book clubs that employ fiction as a cultural artifact are presented as a way for members to build relationships, learn together, and to engage in cultural change work. Next, the traditional notions of book clubs are made pedagogically complex through the lens of critical public pedagogy. Finally, we offer two implications: (1) as public pedagogy, book clubs can act as an alternative to traditional learning structures in organizations; and (2) book clubs, when valued as public pedagogy, can be fostered by those in management learning and HRD for consciousness raising and challenging existing mental models in their organizations.

scholarly journals Speculative Harbouring: Wading into Critical Pedagogy and Practices of Care

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Pratt ◽  
Kate Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Field Guide ◽  
Disciplinary Field ◽  
A Site ◽  
Critical Public Pedagogy ◽  
Sydney Australia

This text explicates a particular pedagogical event—Speculative Harbouring—a postgraduate workshop in which students from different disciplines formed around concerns of how we might better care for, and with, urban harbours. The harbour we attended to is presently referred to as Blackwattle Bay, which is a site in Eora Nation, Sydney, Australia currently undergoing significant redevelopment. The purpose of the workshop, or rather walkshop, was two-fold: to introduce participants to research practices from a range of disciplines, and to construct a field-guide to highlight ways in which Blackwattle Bay is, has, and might be, inhabited, cared for (or not) and the complex ecological and social demands this creates. To begin the walkshop, participants each shared a different method for examining place from their disciplinary field. During the twoday event, these different methods were activated through the practice of walking and were used to produce the Speculative Harbouring Field-Guide to Blackwattle Bay. In our discussion, we draw on feminist practices and politics of care, in particular, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa’s articulation of “matters of care,” alongside Anna Tsing’s “arts of noticing” and notions of critical public pedagogy, to examine ways in which walking and reflecting can attune people to learning to care and how a field guide might facilitate such attuning.

Visibility and security in the smart home

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652110300
Author(s):  
Justine Humphry ◽  
Chris Chesher
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Security Systems ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
A Site ◽  
Over Time

Smart home, media and security systems intervene in the territory and boundaries of the home in a variety of ways. Among these are the capacity to watch the home from afar, and to record these observations over time, as well as using the home as a site of performance for those on the outside. In this paper, we map the meanings of the smart home and explore the tensions between security and visibility, adopting a cultural history and cultural analysis methodological approach. We make a contribution to the literature on the smart home, highlighting its connection to longer trajectories of media and cultural change, and to understanding the contemporary formations of technologised surveillance, with attention to practices that emerged in response to COVID-19. We focus on two aspects of our model of domestic smartification: Ludics (devices and systems for play or entertainment) and exteriorities (security and communication interfaces that remotely monitor and expose the home). We focus on these aspects relating them to ideas of haunting and the uncanny to explore the implications of making what was previously hidden visible and manipulable to others.

New Arab Maids: Female Domestic Work, “New Arab Women,” and National Memory in British Mandate Palestine

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-467
Author(s):  
Caroline Kahlenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Engagement ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
British Mandate ◽  
Arab Woman ◽  
Socioeconomic Changes ◽  
National Memory ◽  
A Site ◽  
Domestic Reform ◽  
Social Causes ◽  
National Solidarity

AbstractThe “new Arab woman” of the early 20th century has received much recent scholarly attention. According to the middle- and upper-class ideal, this woman was expected to strengthen the nation by efficiently managing her household, educating her children, and contributing to social causes. Yet, we cannot fully understand the “new Arab woman” without studying the domestic workers who allowed this class to exist. Domestic workers carried out much of the physical labor that let their mistresses pursue new standards of domesticity, social engagement, and participation in nationalist organizations. This article examines relationships between Arab housewives and female domestic workers in British Mandate Palestine (1920–1948) through an analysis of domestic reform articles and memoirs. Arab domestic reformers argued that elite housewives, in order to become truly modern women, had to treat maids with greater respect and adjust to the major socioeconomic changes that peasants were experiencing, yet still maintain a clear hierarchy in the home. Palestinian memoirists, meanwhile, often imagine their pre-1948 homes as a site of Palestinian national solidarity. Their memories of intimate relationships that developed between elite families and peasant maids have crucially shaped nationalist narratives that celebrate the Palestinian peasantry.

scholarly journals Crosswalk: Performing the City as a Learning Experience

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaele Rufo
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experience ◽  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Pedagogical Agent ◽  
Argentine Tango ◽  
Failed Attempt ◽  
A Site ◽  
Pedestrian Crossing ◽  
The City

Crosswalk is a site-responsive performance conducted in the middle of a pedestrian crossing in the inner streets of Melbourne and exposed in the homonymous video attached to this article. The performance – an experiment with the duet dance form of Argentine tango – emerged out of a practice-based process of inquiry. My failed attempt to find my tango in the city while finding my place in the city through the tango becomes a drive to explore the nexus between learning and the experience of publicness and defuse the rationalist reliance on the isolated cognitive individual as the key pedagogical agent and target. I argue that, in Crosswalk tango worked (or could have worked) as a reverse public pedagogy through somatic connection not only between dance partners but also with the broader environment. Becoming vulnerable to the otherness of the outside world is one way of promoting diversity and fostering plurality.

Travelling Through History

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Filippo Lambertucci
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Metro Station ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

The construction of underground urban transport lines in Rome has provoked in the past years the discovery and the destruction of numerous archaeological sites. The last decade has marked a significant cultural change in Italy in the relationship between infrastructure and archaeology, thanks to the development of new methodologies and successful experiences; thanks to the excavations for the construction, it has been possible to realize the largest archaeological campaigns for decades and open new perspectives to the involvement of findings in the structure of the everyday city. The case study of the new metro station San Giovanni ain Rome offers an example for the conservation of heritage through the tools of narration in a site where the archaeological layers have been removed but can still be perceivable thanks to a narrative system that envelops the passenger in a total experience, with a scientifically museum-like rigorous arrangement of information realized according to the speed of commuters.

The Dry Prong Site, East Central Arizona

1960 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan P. Olson
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Agricultural Terraces ◽  
East Central ◽  
Large Structures ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
A Site ◽  
River Valleys ◽  
Central Arizona ◽  
Great Kivas

AbstractA series of large structures termed great kivas has been excavated at Point of Pines, Arizona. To add to the sequence of these kivas a site was excavated in 1959 on one of the upper tributaries of Eagle Creek, 16 miles northeast of Point of Pines. The site complex included a great kiva and five attached rooms, a U-shaped masonry pueblo, scattered storage units, trash deposits, a reservoir, and agricultural terraces. The kiva was rectangular with an encircling bench, a stepped entrance, two possible floor resonators, and a post pattern suggesting a polygonal roof support. The ceramic content of the site places it late in the Reserve phase which is dated from A.D. 1000 to 1150.This particular kiva type appeared during late Three Circle phase and had a distribution centered in the upper San Francisco and Blue River valleys. The antecedents for the structure seem to lie in the general Mogollon great kiva tradition. The surrounding areas were examined for possible contributions to the complex; ceramic evidence of contact was present but no definite source for the introduction was found. The presence of a number of Anasazi traits plus the direction of Reserve phase cultural change suggests a northern source for this kiva form.

scholarly journals Walking Borders, Risk and Belonging

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggie O’Neill ◽  
Ismail Einashe
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Social Research ◽  
White Male ◽  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Male Privilege ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Public Pedagogy

Walking borders, risk & belonging makes a case for using walking as a biographical interviewmethod (WIBM) in order to do critical public pedagogy—using conjunctural analysis—that engagesin unsettling and troubling the white, male privilege and basis of walking, and indeed the‘turn’ to walking rooted in Eurocentric practices. The authors build upon a long history of: i) usingwalking, participatory and arts-based methods (ethno-mimesis) to do social research on migrationwith migrants, and; ii) the importance of creating space for stories of asylum, migration andmarginalisation to be shared and heard through critical pedagogy, critical journalism, and walkingas an arts-based research method.

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