The Dialog Laboratory
Development time with the Bacca fellows afforded me ample informal, adaptive time to jazz-prepare in tandem with my class's year-long laboratory improvisations.
Being part of the Bacca community grew my developments in laboratory learning in my classes. Our meetings gave sanctuary to common reflection time whose energy together gathered interia to concoct new ideas from our buffet of projects. Our collective thinking drew upon the wealth of teaching experience in the room and disciplinary insights repurposable into my laboratory pedagogies.
In adventuring my students into new roles as self-teachers, as anthropologists of the classroom, and as critical builders of their own revised social space, I drew upon Bacca's community of pedagogical tinkerers and collected stories of worst-case scenarios so that I could contingency plan more road-tested responses to make struggle teachable. My jazz teaching philosophy, in part, takes a jazz approach to my preparations as much as to my pedagogical deployment. Development time with the Bacca fellows afforded me ample informal, adaptive time to jazz-prepare in tandem with my class's year-long laboratory improvisations.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: David Landes
