Exhibiting widely internationally and in the UK,
the primary nature of her practice is research and issue - based, manifesting itself within the realms of multi-media works.
Not exact matches
The dysfunctional
nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the
primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside
of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods
practiced in
primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power
of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect
of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind
of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out
of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»
Their
primary goal is to continue to maintain the «Blue Flag» ecological Recognition Award received in the past years by endorsing and conducting ecological
practices for the conservation
of nature.
Characteristic
of Dawson's
practice, these works present an exploration
of the continuities
of nature and civilization, and a belief in the enduring vitality
of beauty and painting as a
primary form
of visceral and visual communication.
Ho rigorously uses color pencil as his
primary medium to portray the unforgiving yet deliberate
nature of his drawing
practice.
There are dozens
of reasons for that, but the
primary one is that the syncretic
nature of Chinese religious
practices tends to blur the lines between Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, etc..