Artivism: Helping Adult Learners Tell Their Stories Using Photo-Literature: The FotoDialogo Method, with Flavia Ramos-Mattoussi
This presentation will focus on the use of the FotoDialogo Method as a research and education tool to engage adult learners in dialogue.
The presentation will provide ideas for those in community-based education regarding methodological issues of recording and portraying adult learners’ lifelines. It will argue that the use of learner-produced photo-literature not only entices the unveiling of personal histories, but it also provides an appropriate atmosphere for the sharing of collective experiences.
Flavia Ramos-Mattoussi, Ed.D, is a Senior Research Associate leading several of Learning Systems Institute's efforts in international education and development. Prior to joining LSI at Florida State University in 2009, she served as director of the Assistance to Basic Education (USAID ABE-IQC) at Juarez & Associates in Washington (2007-2009); Assistant Professor and Director of the International Training and Education Program at American University (2002-2007); Visiting professor of International Education at the George Washington University (2000-2002); Adjunct faculty at the University of Connecticut (leading a study abroad program to Cuba in 2002) and at the School for International Training in Vermont (1990).
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Resources:
Ramos, F. (2006). Helping Adult Learners Tell Their Stories Using Photo-Literature: The FotoDialogo Method. Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education, 8(1).
The vision of Artivism: The Power of Art for Social Transformation is to generate a movement with committed social artivists in response to historic global unrest. Artivism aims to generate community through multi-disciplinary teamwork for a more dignified and meaningful coexistence, however you define these terms. The goal of this initiative is to nurture confidence in taking continuous action from wherever you are by means of reciprocity.
Artivism: The Power of Art Social Transformation, grew out of Illuminations of Social Imagination: Learning From Maxine Greene, (Dio Press, 2019), edited by Teachers College alumni Courtney Weida and Carolina Cambronero-Varela, and Dolapo Adeniji-Neill, of Adelphi University. "The concept for this book is inspired by the late Maxine Greene (2000), who described her enduring philosophical focus and legacy of social imagination as “the capacity to invent visions of what should be and what might be in our deficient society, on the streets where we live, in our schools” (p. 5). The purpose of this volume is to examine and illuminate the roles of community organizers and educators who are changing lives through public art and community arts projects. This research originally emerged from a well-attended 2018 conference presentation and exhibition at Teachers College, Columbia University, engaging with the local and international community of arts education and arts administration."
-- Publisher's Description
Artivism: The Power of Art Social Transformation is jointly sponsored by Adelphi University, Sing for Hope, and the Gottesman Libraries.
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