The City of Richgate: A/r/tographic Cartography as Public Pedagogy

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.

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See the light: ‘Biking-with’ as an a/r/tographic method of public pedagogy

Journal of Arts & Communities ◽

10.1386/jaac_00025_1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1-2) ◽

pp. 105-118

Author(s):

Rebecca Mayers

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Lived Experience ◽

Public Space ◽

Public Pedagogy ◽

Recreational Activity ◽

Political Practice ◽

Civic Action ◽

Mode Of Transportation ◽

The City ◽

Critical Public Pedagogy

Given the prevalence of cycling as a recreational activity and mode of transportation, cities are continuously increasingly incorporating cycling into their plans for the future. Considering the rise of cycling in popular and academic discourse, it is paramount to consider the lived experience of cycling and be able to conduct and disseminate research in a meaningful way. Drawing upon a/r/tography as a methodology, whereby the artist/researcher/teacher coexist, this article explores ‘biking-with’ as a political practice and critical public pedagogy opposed to dominant discourse of mobility and space in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The findings suggest that ‘biking-with’ as civic action and challenge norms around private/public space.

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Public Pedagogy and the City

FLEKS - Scandinavian Journal of Intercultural Theory and Practice ◽

10.7577/fleks.1831 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Galina Shavard

Keyword(s):

Public Education ◽

Multicultural Education ◽

Formal Education ◽

Public Pedagogy ◽

Cultural Centers ◽

Empirical Inquiry ◽

Two Cities ◽

The One ◽

The City ◽

Depth Interviews

This paper seeks to contribute to the interdisciplinary discussion of the all-too-often- contested concept of multicultural education and, specifically, the way it is conceptualized and put into practice in city libraries, museums, cultural centers, and other emerging sites of public education. As the formal education system has so far been seen as the main venue for research on multicultural education, to date there is relatively little empirical inquiry exploring how the ideas of multicultural education play out outside the school settings. The study aims to address this gap and explore the educators’ perspective, the views of those who set the agenda for educational programs. Based on 10 in-depth interviews with the educators in Oslo and Moscow, two cities with extensive networks of public education, the study sheds light on how multicultural education is interpreted in this often-overlooked context. Drawing on the transformative approaches in multicultural education on the one hand and the concept of public pedagogy on the other, the discussion uncovers some of the potentials and limitations intrinsic to the practices of multicultural education in the settings of public education.

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Queering Pride: Walking Towards a Queer Future in Ireland

Journal of Public Pedagogies ◽

10.15209/jpp.1180 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Georgina Perryman

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Gay Men ◽

Structural Violence ◽

Public Pedagogy ◽

Lesbian Women ◽

Walking Tour ◽

Trans People ◽

The Everyday ◽

Historical Sites ◽

The City

The Queer History Walking Tour is an annually recurring event during Dublin’s official Pride festivities. Created and led by the ‘Godfather of Gay,’ Tonie Walsh, the walks seek to extend stories from the Irish Queer Archive (IQA) into the everyday fabric of the city, contributing to a processual queering of Irish heteronormative histories. As an activist form of public pedagogy, the walking tour encourages a relational understanding of queer cultural heritage through mobile, embodied, and emotional interactions. This paper argues that the walking tour works as an anarchive that contributes to a growing, intersectional understanding of LGBTQ+ experiences and queer futures, facilitated by peripatetic practices. In response to pervasive cis-male homonormativity at Pride, Dr Mary McAuliffe, a queer feminist woman, is the latest tour guide who includes historical stories of lesbian women, trans people, and gay men. Through engaging with this diversity of historical experiences, guides signal and support anti-capitalist events organised to critique the corporatisation of Pride and current attitudes towards LGBTQ+ people in Ireland. Trans Pride and Alternative Pride highlight the ongoing physical and structural violence done to LGBTQ+ people through giving voice to intersectional experiences. They connect LGBTQ+ struggles across different timespaces through engaging with Pride as a protest and marching to significant historical sites on meaningful days in LGBTQ+ history. Walking together to significant places, telling stories, and educating one another at these events works to queer Pride by challenging capitalism and its norms,revealing a trajectory that invites us to imagine and participate in an intersectional future of being queer in Ireland.

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Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1017/s1073110500012961 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 202-203

Author(s):

Robert Chatham

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Public Health System ◽

Municipal Hospital ◽

The Public ◽

Public Benefit ◽

For Profit ◽

Benefit Corporation ◽

The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

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ASHA Convention 2013

ASHA Leader ◽

10.1044/leader.an11.18072013.46 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 18 (7) ◽

pp. 46-48

Keyword(s):

Ice Cream ◽

Annual Convention ◽

The City ◽

Rich History

This year's Annual Convention features some sweet new twists like ice cream and free wi-fi. But it also draws on a rich history as it returns to Chicago, the city where the association's seeds were planted way back in 1930. Read on through our special convention section for a full flavor of can't-miss events, helpful tips, and speakers who remind why you do what you do.

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