Education and anthropology address a changing view of the world. This proposal aims to explore how both anthropology and education are tied to a particular form of active "seeing" interweaving discourse, ways of knowing and vision.
Paper long abstract:
Moving and perceiving are priorities for living and for learning with others. In this proposal I take "seeing" as an anthropological approach able to contend with the visual lives and visual learning of others. Streams of images and visual information are an increasing part of education and our own differing everyday experience that challenge how we study social life. The question of visuality and what becomes visible addresses processes of attention from interconnected perspectives. On the one side the ongoing social and material functions of the visual world, while on the other the intricacies of the seeing and being seen 'gaze', as a form of learning able to ‘liberate and displace’ (Masschelein 2010).
Accepted Contribution:
Contribution description:
Paper long abstract:
Moving and perceiving are priorities for living and for learning with others. In this proposal I take "seeing" as an anthropological approach able to contend with the visual lives and visual learning of others. Streams of images and visual information are an increasing part of education and our own differing everyday experience that challenge how we study social life. The question of visuality and what becomes visible addresses processes of attention from interconnected perspectives. On the one side the ongoing social and material functions of the visual world, while on the other the intricacies of the seeing and being seen 'gaze', as a form of learning able to ‘liberate and displace’ (Masschelein 2010).
Anthropology as education
Session 1