I know that I have yet finish working on my first book, Visual Connections and I have started a second book which is connected to the first called Here's an Idea. Below is page one of the first draft of the books intro.
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Here is my first story iteration If you are having trouble reading my printing here is a typed version of my story.
I believe that teaching and facilitation is a creative process. I would like to invite all educators and facilitators from different practices, i.e adult education, community education and workplace learning, to engage in and explore this idea through a creative conversation. Before we do this, I would like to tell you my story of how my practice as an educator and facilitator has been both informed and transformed by my practice as an artist. This practice, that has spanned some thirty years, has enabled me to experience and observe the world through a number of lenses. Because my practice as an artist is centered on photography these lenses are not just figurative, but real. The found images that I have captured through these lenses were often manipulated into a new construct. This creative process of the found and constructed has flowed into my practice as an educator / facilitator. As a result of this, I find myself out on the periphery of adult education, which is an exciting place to work from because of the freedom to take risks and play. Speaking of taking risks and play I would like to invite educators and facilitators from different practices to engage in a creative conversation to explore that idea that teaching and facilitation is a creative process. It is through this creative conversation that collectively we can frame and reframe creative processes that educators may or may not realize that they are already working with. Through an ongoing knowledge exchange we can begin to expose and explore the creative processes that emerges. One option for a knowledge exchange is a professional development program that I offer, the MIX Workshop: Integrating the Visual Arts into Adult Education. This program is comprised of thee components; Visual knowing Component Past Learning Programs / Future Learning Needs, Visual Connections Component Learning Content Development and the Visual Effect Component Learning Program Evaluation. All three components utilize a number of creative processes. It is may hope that the educators and facilitators engaged in the creative conversation will carry on this conversation with their learners. |