This exhibition was produced through support from the Becoming Pedagogical SSHRC funded research project, whose aim is to study how A/r/tography might be uniquely situated to enact, develop and problematize becoming pedagogical in a teacher education program. It is the assembly of these modified pages and the recollection of the conversations and experiences of the experiment that form Summerhill, Revised. Summerhill’s doctrine of individualism, free will and self-regulation is in many ways analogous to perceptions of the contemporary artist figure and emerging ideals of self-directed art education.Įach teacher candidate was given a copy of Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing and encouraged to write in the margins, draw on the pages and create any kind of handmade revision to the text. Neill’s Summerhill School (founded in 1921, and still running) operates similarly to many art education programs today, where self-directed and intrinsically-motivated pupils choose their own research topics and modes of expression. Reed and Jickling took this book as a guide for various modes of learning it became a conversation starter, a scholarly manual, a readymade sculpture and a fieldtrip guide.Ī.S. Neill’s controversial text Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing, which chronicles the unorthodox opinions of Scottish educator Alexander Sutherland Neill on topics ranging from needlework to nudity.
Summerhill, Revised is the culmination of work completed by Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed in collaboration with art teacher education candidates* and the A/r/tography** research collective during a three-week residency in the Teacher Education Program at the University of British Columbia. Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 5pm Public Reception & Book Reunion : Sunday, January 16, 6–8pm Tuesday, January 18 –Friday, January 28, 2011 Access Gallery, 437 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC, Canada
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