Sentences with phrase «deskilling of»

There has been a «devaluing and deskilling of teachers,» as they have been «reduced to... - clerks of the empire»» by «the present rush toward accountability schemes, corporate management pedagogies, and state - mandated curricula.»

Not exact matches

Martin sees disturbing parallels between the cultural representations of people who fall by the wayside in the world of work — through unemployment, «deskilling» or lack of training — and those who fall ill as a result of «inferior» immune responses, leading to AIDS, cancer or a host of other diseases.

Can you further explain the meaning of «Teachers are deskilled»?

Teachers are deskilled, largely reduced to teaching for the test, business culture organizes the governance structures of schooling, knowledge is viewed as a commodity, and students are treated reductively as both consumers and workers.

Here, as in other writings, Giroux laments the «proletarianization of teacher work,» their demotion to «high - level clerks,» and their «deskilling» and «demoralization,» all of which he blames on a conservative - driven «emphasis on accountability schemes, teaching to the tests, and... the growing corporatization of the schools.»

As Tucker points out, «none of these jurisdictions — Finland, Japan, Ontario (Canada) Shanghai (China) or Singapore — is focused on the pursuit of narrow test results, market - based reforms, a deskilled teaching force presumably motivated by threats of firing, or a competitive approach that sets up some schools, teachers, and, consequently, students as winners, while setting up others as losers.»

Sophie Jung's new body of sculpture and performance work made in response to Äppärät creates an associative chain between — among other seemingly disparate phenomena — handheld origami fortune telling devices; hand - woven (and hence «unique») Ikea rugs produced in the developing world; hand gestures that indicate money, salt, resistance and digital navigation; sock puppetry, online and offline; «life hacks» involving fixing drowned iPhones with dry rice; «deskilling» in manual labour and in art; repetitive strain injuries; toxic «e-waste»; and Lady Macbeth's «out damned spot!»

He has neither bought into the paradigm of deskilling nor aligned himself with the widely practiced style of provisional painting.

Alzheimer de Koonings denuded and bleached, they make one realize that his nihilism leaves forebears in the dust: Thinking of Rauschenberg as a formal and perhaps attitudinal forebear, Wool is too deskilled even to erase — smudge being his preferred MO..

The first clearly and effectively traces the rise of curators as bestowers of value in the artworld (and elegantly glosses struggles for the control of value — between critics, dealers, artists and curators — along the way), up to the point at which curating's deskilling and populism means that everyone can do it and inherently contradicts the discipline's quest to professionalise itself via academic courses and qualifications.

In these works, the uncanny effect of virtuosic painterly technique results from an otherwise systematically deskilled procedure of image production.

Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight notes that the 10 feet - high and 30 feet - wide paintings point to the resistance of the medium to deskilling: «Within the rectangle of a painting, whether on paper a few inches square or wood panels the size of a ballroom wall, an artist can exert the absolute power — the Late Western Impaerium — of individual imagination.»

Burr was beginning to work with ideas related to public space, architecture, and gay culture, while Hohn was making paintings that were increasingly ironic and deskilled, work that would culminate in a 1993 series based on the teachings of Bob Ross, the well - known TV painting instructor and paradigm of kitsch.

The show takes as its theme «Miseducation,» which is certainly more direct than the Whitney's program, and a nod to the deskilled mode of salon - style presentation demonstrated here.

Unlike those artists who fetishize effortlessness and randomness under the guise of a deskilled interest in process and materials, Lapin accepts the daunting challenge put forth from several centuries of art history, thereby joining several contemporaries who do the same: the expressive Angel Otero and Barnaby Furnas, the moody Kristine Moran, and the linear Tomma Abts and Tomory Dodge.