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
Revisionist Poetry – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?, v.4 – sardonic
The flames rise to take their bows behind the curtains;we supply the kindling and sign the receipt. Sadness clocks in at nine, sips the coffee of routine,answers happiness’s calls with a polite, scripted apology. Wood gets promoted to coal, coal retires into ash —each stage files a cleaner, quieter claim. Expectations arrive in decent suits … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?, v.4 – sardonic
Revisionist Pedagogy – Generative Art and Visual Arts Education: an essay for curricular reform (Exploring the Intersection of Art and Algorithms: A Perspective Analysis of Generative Art, v.2)
Generative Art — where algorithmic rule-sets, chance operations, and computational models meet studio practice — offers a productive frontier for reforming visual arts education. This essay unpacks Generative Art’s historical roots, theoretical foundations, and contemporary significance with the explicit aim of showing how curricular integration can cultivate computational thinking, creative agency, and critical literacy about … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Generative Art and Visual Arts Education: an essay for curricular reform (Exploring the Intersection of Art and Algorithms: A Perspective Analysis of Generative Art, v.2)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Metamorphoses by Ovid
Ovid’s Metamorphoses is less a single tale than an architecture of change: a vast, ebullient mosaic of transformations that proceeds from the universe’s primeval chaos to the deification of Julius Caesar. Composed in fluent dactylic hexameter and stretching across fifteen books, the poem is both encyclopaedia and incantation — an artful catalogue in which the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Metamorphoses by Ovid
Revisionist Poetry – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?, v.4 – ironical
The flames rise, take their bows behind the drapes.We throw them paper hopes — polite, confetti-thin. Sadness chews politely, no need to hurry;happiness is filling out an application form. Wood becomes coal, coal updates its résumé,ash sends holiday postcards to the future. Expectations show up in party hats and maps,joy slips out for a smoke … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?, v.4 – ironical
Revisionist Pedagogy – Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Visual Arts Education: A Modern Pedagogical Call-to-action
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a topic of considerable debate and scholarly interest across academic disciplines, particularly in relation to education and teaching methodologies. Within visual arts education, this debate takes on added urgency, as artistic production itself has been profoundly reshaped by digital and computational technologies. In the context of adolescent … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Visual Arts Education: A Modern Pedagogical Call-to-action
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Taboo: The Art of Tiki, edited by Martin McIntosh with an introduction by Sven A. Kirsten
"Taboo: The Art of Tiki" is at once a curatorial flourish and a cultural document: a small, handsome volume that archives a particular late-20th-century fascination with Pacific iconography as refracted through the sensibilities of Lowbrow and pop-surrealist artists. Edited by Martin McIntosh with an introduction by Sven A. Kirsten, and credited with contributions from figures … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Taboo: The Art of Tiki, edited by Martin McIntosh with an introduction by Sven A. Kirsten
Revisionist Poetry – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?, v.3 – brevity
Kindling rises.Sadness eats the bright.Wood → coal → ash. Expectations burn—joy becomes a black scrap. Flames learn the wind;memories linger like dust. Out of sight, they go;not out of me.
Revisionist Pedagogy – The Future of Adult Learning: Harnessing AI Responsibly (a.k.a. Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Adult Education: A Compelling Pedagogical Imperative, v.2)
The Future of Adult Learning: Harnessing AI Responsibly The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping how adults learn, retrain, and advance in workplaces and communities. Adult learners bring prior experience, competing time demands, and immediate vocational goals; the question is not whether to use AI, but how to deploy it so that it respects … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – The Future of Adult Learning: Harnessing AI Responsibly (a.k.a. Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Adult Education: A Compelling Pedagogical Imperative, v.2)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Masters: Earthenware: Major Works by Leading Artists, Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra
Masters: Earthenware arrives not as a dry handbook but as a museum catalogue written in the idiom of the studio. Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra, the volume assembles compact, richly illustrated mini-retrospectives that together argue for earthenware as a lively, experimental, and emotionally capacious medium rather than a mere step on … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Masters: Earthenware: Major Works by Leading Artists, Curated by Matthias Ostermann and edited by Ray Hemachandra
The New Renaissance Mindset 