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Casting Light and Shadow

Reflections on a Non-Formal Adult Learning Course

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This chapter shares our reflections on the pedagogy of a non-formal adult learning course entitled Art and Slow Violence, held over five-weeks in 2014 at Tate Modern, London. The course revolved around a variety of permanent and temporary multimedia exhibitions of different cultural renderings of war, conflict, violence and landscape. It took its name from a book by Rob Nixon (2011) entitled Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor, and aimed to provide participants with the opportunity to engage critically with artistic representations and imaginings, reading materials, presentations, and each other in both the class and during an optional dialogic space in a local pub following each class.

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  1. University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

    Darlene E. Clover

  2. Tate Modern, London, UK

    Emily Stone

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  1. University of Victoria, Canada

    Darlene E. Clover

  2. University of Victoria, Canada

    Kathy Sanford

  3. University of Victoria, Canada

    Lorraine Bell

  4. University of Victoria, Canada

    Kay Johnson

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Clover, D.E., Stone, E. (2016). Casting Light and Shadow. In: Clover, D.E., Sanford, K., Bell, L., Johnson, K. (eds) Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries. International Issues in adult Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-687-3_16

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