Dear Andy-hi
I very much believe that creativity raises confidence levels and with that help to develop aspirations. I know this because I was one of those funny kids in junior school that didn't belong, picked on,(sob, sob)(I laugh at my self!) and was only happy on my own in the bush. (I grew up in Zimbabwe on a farm) Because I was so 'alone', I, at the age of 9 in standard 3, was failing and the thought of being held back a year was devastating. Then something happened, I discovered I could do something better than anyone else, I could draw and paint and the kids in my class now looked up to me. Because of this recognition I passed std 3 and have not stopped creating since then. Being a creative person and being an artist and acknowledging I am an educator, is a life style. My sense of well being/self worth is very much connected /intertwined with being an artist. I want people to feel good about themselves , even in the minutest way, so they can grow and be able to face the challenges of life.
That belief in self that was fostered in those young years because of that one monumental, yet very small incident( I can still see the painting in my head that I was working on in class that day), has stayed with me. I want to and do, I think, foster in people this sense of self worth that I believe happens with the actions of being creative.
Thank you for sending your core values and principles.
With love from another 'living contradiction'! I like being a living contradiction-soooo kool!
Cheers
lee
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From: Practitioner-Researcher [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew Henon
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 1:14 PM
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Subject: Re: Educational influences
Dear Jack and the practitioner researcher forum
I have been working with an action learning set convened by Arts Council
England South West. A group of the foremost practitioners in the field of
socially engaged arts and work with Children and young People specialism. We
have now had 5 days residential and will reconvene on 11th March to decide
the future direction our work together may take, or not?
Since my first studies in Design and Fine Art. The discipline required that
someone embarking on a career as and artist or designer write their own brief
first. This is for a number of reasons primarily because it was considered that a
designer or artist has significant influence in the world by what they bring into
being and that one had to have a clear ethical view or direction in your work in
order to decide the levels of compromise you are willing to accept or not with
a commissioners of your services, process or products. Here responsibility for
bringing work into the world lies jointly between the designer and the
commissioner as embodied values, implicit in the work and explicit in it's use.
In education there are for me extra layers to be considered with regard to
meaning and purpose some of which I hope are clearly stated in the attached.
I offer the attached for any comment and feedback but as a contribution
regarding educational influences and the link between 'Intent' and 'Influence'
With love and best wishes Andy
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