Applied academic illusion

28-April-2006

[ Media literacy , ICT and learning ]
The split of academic and scientific skills on the one side and artistic abilities on the other side which hampers non-hierarchical interdisciplinary education processes can be seen as a sort of applied academic illusion

Media Arts Education:

From Daniela's blog:

"I am thinking, reading and writing about the misconceptions of intelligence and creativity taken for granted in education and research. There is a paper in progress on such issues in the context of media arts education scenarios. The split of academic and scientific skills on the one side and artistic abilities on the other side which hampers non-hierarchical interdisciplinary education processes can be seen as a sort of applied academic illusion."

I think this is very important. Gardener's work on multiple intelligences (see infed for excellent summary) has been used to perpetuate the split Daniela talks of (I am not sure whether he intended such a split - anyone have any views on this). We have to see learning as a process which involves all of our 'intelligences' - not separately but as a holistic process.

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Graham Attwell; 28-April-2006 08:30:18;