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The Free Range Learning Exchange is a socially engaged art project by artist-teacher Stacey Ward Kelly and her high school contemporary art students from Livermore Valley Charter Prep High School. A cardboard bus “takes” these students out into public spaces where they offer various learning exchanges with the public.
This socially engaged art project conceived and created by artist-teacher Stacey Ward Kelly in collaboration with her high school contemporary art students from Livermore Valley Charter Prep High School. Working on the idea that meaningful learning experiences and connections often occur outside the classroom, this project seeks to engage participants in learning “exchanges” in public spaces. Ward Kelly and her student-artists offer tutorials based on their individual skillsets and interests to participants in exchange for something they can teach them on the spot. Teach me a song, I’ll show you how to bump a volleyball; Have some interesting local folklore to share? How about a dance lesson in exchange? Fifteen different tutorials will be offered on-site to participants to engage with and explore in exchange for an offering of learning they are open to share. Based on utopian models of education and learning, in the free range learning space, participants are able to choose which of the learning they’d like to participate in, students are free to be teacher-learners, and the educator is free to be artist-learner alongside her students.
Livermore Valley Charter Prep (LVCP) is a college prep charter high school that focuses on project-based learning. Each class implements curriculum designed that uses essential questions and “big ideas” with project elements that include writing, creative arts and technology. Contemporary Art students explore many participatory works of art and installation as part of their curriculum and are challenged to create works that respond to current ideas in contemporary culture and connect to the community.
This socially engaged art project conceived and created by artist-teacher Stacey Ward Kelly in collaboration with her high school contemporary art students from Livermore Valley Charter Prep High School. Working on the idea that meaningful learning experiences and connections often occur outside the classroom, this project seeks to engage participants in learning “exchanges” in public spaces. Ward Kelly and her student-artists offer tutorials based on their individual skillsets and interests to participants in exchange for something they can teach them on the spot. Teach me a song, I’ll show you how to bump a volleyball; Have some interesting local folklore to share? How about a dance lesson in exchange? Fifteen different tutorials will be offered on-site to participants to engage with and explore in exchange for an offering of learning they are open to share. Based on utopian models of education and learning, in the free range learning space, participants are able to choose which of the learning they’d like to participate in, students are free to be teacher-learners, and the educator is free to be artist-learner alongside her students.
Livermore Valley Charter Prep (LVCP) is a college prep charter high school that focuses on project-based learning. Each class implements curriculum designed that uses essential questions and “big ideas” with project elements that include writing, creative arts and technology. Contemporary Art students explore many participatory works of art and installation as part of their curriculum and are challenged to create works that respond to current ideas in contemporary culture and connect to the community.
The Free Range Learning Exchange
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