Why I Make Books

Autor/in	Mayers, Leah
Titel	Why I Make Books
Quelle	In: Teaching Artist Journal, 7 (2009) 1, S.5-13 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1541-1796
Schlagwörter	Student Participation; Experiential Learning; Teaching Methods; Art Activities; Art Products; Cooperative Learning; Student Projects; Books; Artists; Authors + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Künstlerische Tätigkeit; Künstlerische Produktion; Kooperatives Lernen; Schulprojekt; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Artiste; Artist; Künstler; Künstlerin; Author; Autor; Autorin
Abstract	In this article, the author relates how she discovered that she was a book and paper artist after she had been kicked out of two high schools, went to art school, had a degree in Political Science and Women's Studies, had another one in Education, and was teaching school full time. After she constructed and stitched her first multisection flat-back book at Artists Book Works, the world suddenly made sense. She now teaches book making to children and adults. Here, she describes how her childhood, which was steeped in a do-it-yourself (DIY) culture, mostly influenced her inclinations to teaching. Her parents championed self-sufficiency and cooperative learning: a belief that individuals and groups could get together and make things from a manual or kit, keeping costs as low as possible, fixing rather than throwing out what one owns, and seeing a project through from beginning to end. She also shares how one can make a three-hole pamphlet stitch book. (Contains 6 resources, 3 figures and 4 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10