Reference: Gibbons, A., & Snake-Beings, E. (2018). DiY (Do-it-Yourself) pedagogy: a future-less orientation to education. Open Review of Educational Research, 5(1), 28-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/23265507.2018.1457453
Abstract: A future-less orientation, as defined in this article, explores approaches to education within the context of precarious, shifting, labour markets and the uncertain future of employment trends. A future-less orientation questions the validity of traditional views of education: as a means of preparing students for an imagined future career; one which may never happen. DiY (Do-it-Yourself) culture has a long tradition of finding innovative solutions to problems which institutions have failed to supply. In this article we explore the potentials of a DiY pedagogy based on a decentralised and transdisciplinary approach which emphasise diversity and community as a strategy to surviving a precarious future.
Notes: I collaborate with Andrew and have learned extensively from him. I selected this paper because it includes many key ideas which are interesting by themselves, including "Community of Difference" and "DIY pedagogy". It also connects to transdisciplinary, defined as:
"a transdisciplinary practice operates from a third space which is the excluded zones between two or more areas of specialised knowledge, creating a practice which remains outside or beyond areas of specialist knowledge and serves to highlight the negative space between specialist areas of knowledge."
I can't recommend enough this book to those interested in these topics:
Biesta, G. (2014). The beautiful risk of education. London: Paradigm.
