Meeting ID: 952 9470 5107
Passcode: 186094
Empathy, improvisation, paradox (how 17 years of teaching fine art online helped prepare for a global pandemic)
Jonathan Kearney is a Teaching Scholar and Course Leader for MA Fine Art Digital at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Since 2004 he has run a mode of the course fully online with students spread across the world.
Can improvisation help us deal with the deep paradoxes in teaching and learning? Can the online space ever offer a truly empathetic environment? Can affective and cognitive empathy support fine art learning? Building on my experience of running a Fine Art Masters course online since 2004, these and other questions will be explored using some thinking from a diverse range of writers including educator and philosopher Paola Freire, economist Kate Raworth, innovator and social entrepreneur Hilary Cottam, ethicist and theologian Samuel Wells and author, feminist and activist Bell Hooks.
The NAFAE AGM and Symposia 2021 will be on Zoom, and spread over a number of days and evenings in July. The symposia will take the form of a number of semi-curated conversations on the theme of 'Kindness and care', with short presentations followed by open conversation among NAFAE members. The symposia will take place between 5.00 and 7.00 on Friday evenings; please provide your own refreshments.
NAFAE members who would like to contribute a 5-10 minute presentation to the 'Kindness/Care' conversations are invited to send a brief summary of the contribution to admin@nafae.org.uk by 12th June 2021.