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 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 – 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
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
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
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 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 