#constructionist

[xmoon1]

hehe fanart for my friend’s upcoming game

dust bunny is an oc tho lol we’ll see where they go

[igiveup]

“We are not immediately present to ourselves. Self-knowledge requires a semiotic-material technology to link meanings and bodies. SELF-IDENTITY IS A BAD VISUAL SYSTEM.” - Donna Haraway

[russellmoreton]

fig127 by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: From the Beast to the Blonde, Marina Warner The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography, Angela Carter

[bluewatsons]

Abstract:

Hegemonic masculinity has been a valuable theoretical approach to understanding ways in which cultures coax members to conform to the requisites of dominant masculinity. However, it has difficulty explaining individual resistances to hegemonic pressures. This paper is one in a series of projects which have identified communities that explicitly defy traditional masculinity norms in order to understand the psychosocial methodologies employed to accomplish resistance within the systemic pressures of hegemonic masculinity. We utilized dialogical self theory as a model to investigate how a gay male drag theater troupe negotiates masculinity in order to understand how that negotiation can help resist dominant discourses of masculinity and form community.

[thefashionagent]

This is happening right now! Meet @cliverundle and @tzviyonce at @hpchydeparkcorner #johannesburg today | #cliverundle selling his #runway #collection for two days only! 10h00 to 18h00 #hydeparkcorner _________________________ #thefashionagent #multilabel #showroom #agent #agency #fashionshowroom #fashionagency #constructionist #avantgarde #womenswear #womensfashion #designer #johannesburg #southafrica #SAFWSS16 #export (at Hyde Park Corner)

[delvevideo-blog]

Hitchcock’s Constructionist

I love reading up on Hitchcock’s technique, he was such a diligent craftsman. 

Today I learned he would often employ what he called a constructionist - a term I have never heard anyone else use in the film industry. This was a person solely responsible for the construction of a story - the story design!

One of his early collaborators was the playwright Charles Bennett. In Bennett’s own words:

“Possibly, I suppose, I was the best-known constructionist in the world at that time. I am not being conceited but I was awfully bloody good. I was a first class constructionist. I’m not saying I was the best dialogue writer in the world. Sometimes we had to bring in dialogue writers.  

“...But the important thing - and Hitch always knew this - was construction. Get your story, get your architecture right, and you can always add your dialogue afterwards. That was always the Hitchcock attitude right up to the day of his death.” 

It seems that in the early studio system, screenwriting was almost split into three roles: a story designer (constructionist) who would build the narrative and the key events; the director (or storyboard artist) who would visualise each event; and then a dialogue writer who would add lines where the images could not themselves convey the idea.

Now these seem to have been blurred into one, but what a wonderful way to work.

Also, props to Bennett for this exchange:

Interviewer: All this foolery with credits didn’t bother you in those days?

Bennett: Nothing bothered me in those days. I was young and very good looking.

[concretepoetrynz]

This is not a hat

It is a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

Kids look at things differently – an apt illustration from the beautiful story "The Little Prince".(Thanks to "How a Child Thinks")

[concretepoetrynz]

B. F. Skinner on Education.

This is pretty old school but goes to show that constructionist ideas about education go a long way back – and yet schools did not seem to pick up on it. Perhaps it is only now that technology makes it easier, that people are beginning to take notice.

The goal is to reinforce exploratory behaviour. While it is tempting to show a child how to do something, it is much better to let them explore and discover it for themselves. 

Also interesting, is this idea to build toward finding natural reinforcers for learning rather than those from a teacher. To find joy in the actual process is far more effective than studying for any reward or punishment.

"The average student studies to avoid the consequences of not studying".