Introduction Traditional studio practices remain indispensable for learning material, mark-making, and craft. Yet the affordances of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) extend the studio in ways that address particular limitations of time, scale, and sensory modality. When integrated with clear learning goals, scaffolded pedagogy, and attention to equity and ethics, AR/VR can deepen … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Exploring the Nexus of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in Visual Arts Education, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking (first published 1952) is less a tightly argued treatise than a rhetorically polished manual of moral encouragement. Its long-lived popularity — it has been read, recommended, parodied and debated for decades — rests on a simple, emotionally resonant premise: the orientation of mind shapes the course of … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Revisionist Poetry – When A Dally Dillies, v.4 – a dialogue between the ‘Rational Mind’ and the ‘Dreaming Body’
Rational Mind: When a dally dillies — define the term.Dreaming Body: A little mischief that untucks the world. Rational Mind: It's quite uncommon — flowers don't just wilt.Dreaming Body: When the staring cow curls its tongue, they do. Rational Mind: Too much, too soon — we need measure, margin.Dreaming Body: Too much, too soon — … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – When A Dally Dillies, v.4 – a dialogue between the ‘Rational Mind’ and the ‘Dreaming Body’
Revisionist Pedagogy – Exploring Interactive Installations: Bridging Art, Technology, and Audience Engagement, v.2
Interactive installations sit at a fruitful crossroads of art and technology, offering immersive, participatory experiences that reconceptualize authorship, spectatorship, and learning. When treated as a deliberate pedagogical strategy, interactive installations are not merely contemporary artworks; they are classroom laboratories that cultivate creativity, systems thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and digital fluency. This essay defines the form, shows … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Exploring Interactive Installations: Bridging Art, Technology, and Audience Engagement, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Franz Marc: 1880 – 1916 by Susanna Partsch
Susanna Partsch’s compact study of Franz Marc reads like a close, lucid argument wrapped in a beautifully produced object: part biography, part formalist reading, part cultural synthesis. Presented in Taschen’s Basic Art series, the volume is deliberately introductory — a short, image-forward guide to an artist whose restless palette and animal imaginaries have become shorthand … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Franz Marc: 1880 – 1916 by Susanna Partsch
Revisionist Poetry – When A Dally Dillies, v.3
When a dally dillies it's quite common, or not,for flowers to wiltif the staring cowcurls its tongue and stares. Too much, too soon —even I crave boundary:a rim of air, a measured tideto keep my thoughts from spilling. The boat cuts through the blueand leaves a neat, astonished wake. Finally,clouds roll over me in friendly … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – When A Dally Dillies, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wealthing Like Rabbits by Robert R. Brown
Robert R. Brown’s Wealthing Like Rabbits announces itself like a contrarian primer: modest in size, mischievous in tone, defiantly uninterested in the pieties of finance-speak. Its subtitle — “An Original and Occasionally Hilarious Introduction to the World of Personal Finance” — is not mere marketing flourish but programmatic: Brown wants to teach, to amuse, and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Wealthing Like Rabbits by Robert R. Brown
Revisionist Poetry – When A Dally Dillies, v.2
When a dally dillies it's quite uncommonfor flowers to wiltwhen the staring cowcurls its tongue. Too much, too soon —even I need limits:the soft shore of space,the steady pull of time. The boat cuts through the blue. Finally,the clouds float over melike friendly waves. Goodbye, rational thought.Goodbye.
Revisionist Pedagogy – Exploring Image Analysis and Interpretation: An Academic Perspective, v.2
In a world saturated with visual media, teaching image analysis and interpretation has to be more than occasional art-room talk — it must be a taught, assessed literacy. This essay argues that image analysis is a foundational visual-literacy competency that schools must teach intentionally, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an augmenting tool while centring cultural … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Exploring Image Analysis and Interpretation: An Academic Perspective, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
James Allen’s As a Man Thinketh is a short, aphoristic meditation on moral agency and the formative power of thought. First published in 1903 as a slim, pamphlet-like tract, it has since persisted as a staple of self-help and New Thought traditions. Read today through a literary-critical lens, the text is at once a rhetorical … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
The New Renaissance Mindset 