Thursday, January 8, 2009

Old School


This article, 23 Questions Teaching Artists Can Help Answer, appeared in High Performance #71, Spring 1996 as a sidebar to another article I skimmed while listening to the legendary MC Solar on youtube.


Written by Linda Frye Burnham, one of the stars of the long-running Community Arts Network, it offers some maxims, such as:


"All genuine learning is active, not passive. It is a process of discovery in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher."


It also poses still relevant questions, such as:


"What does quality work look like? How do we know what is good enough?


Who can say?



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