CRITICAL LITERACY
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Critical Literary Arts in Action: The Decolonial Project of Ba re e ne re within and beyond Lesotho
In this article Lineo Segoete and Zachary Rosen of the Maseru Working Group explore the historical construction of literary infrastructure established in Lesotho. Building on an analysis of Sesotho language orthography by Dr Litšepiso Matlosa , the pair recall the colonial genesis of written Sesotho by Swiss and French missionaries. As a result of this influence,…
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Maseru Working Group in Dialogue with the Balisa in Sefikeng for International Literacy Day (10 September 2019).
The Maseru Working Group was invited to collaborate with the Lesotho Council of NGOs (LCN) and Lesotho Association of Non-formal Education (LANFE) to host a community dialogue with Herders (Balisa) in Sefikeng, Berea on 10 September 2019. The aim of the event was to engage on the value of literacy and education among Balisa and…
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Decolonising Literacy with Critical Pedagogy
WORKING GROUP: MASERU AUTHORS: BA RE E NE RE LITERARY ARTS : LINEO SEGOETE, ZACHARY ROSEN ABSTRACT This Learning Unit is intended to provide activity plans for students or other learners in late primary to high school, though they can be shared with any group of people with moderate literacy skills. The activities may be…
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Experiments in Injecting Critical Readings of the History of Arts and Design Education into an Introductory Course in Publication Design
WORKING GROUP: KAMPALA AUTHORS: KITTO DERRICK WINTERGREEN AND EMMA WOLUKAU-WANAMBWA ABSTRACT This learning unit was designed for use by 1 st year diploma level visual communication students at a tertiary-level art and design school in Uganda. Its aim was to introduce the students to publication design (as specified in the curriculum) while at the same…
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Reengaging Freire: Decoding and Re-coding Freire’s “Generative Images” and Critical Arts Education
Image from: Institut d’action culturelle IDAC. Féminin Pluriel. De L’éducation Des Femmes. IDAC Document 21. Geneva, 1980. WORKING GROUP: GENEVA/ZURICH AUTHORS: NORA LANDKAMMER ABSTRACT How do we engage students or participants of a learning programme in a gallery in discussing an artwork in a critical and potentially emancipatory manner? This Learning Unit proposes to reflect…
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Reengaging Freire: Paulo and Elza in Geneva
WORKING GROUP: GENEVA/ZURICH AUTHORS: MICROSILLONS – MARIANNE GUARINO-HUET, OLIVIER DESVOIGNES ABSTRACT This Learning Unit offers historical information about the ten years the pedagogue Paulo Freire (1921, Recife – 1997 São Paulo), his wife Elza and their children spent in Geneva in the 1970s. It also presents four experiments, realized by autonomous gallery educators, to reinvent…