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Radical Museology/Radical Pedagogy: Curating Beyond Boundaries

In this born digital project, we use the practices, genres, and logics of exhibition as an organizing framework for communicating a subversive approach to writing pedagogy. We have selected, arranged, interpreted, and juxtaposed artifacts from museums and from the University of Rhode Island (URI) first-year writing curriculum that tell a disjointed and fragmented story about what social justice work is possible in both museums and schools. In keeping with our work to disrupt sedimented writing instruction practices, we cultivate here dis-orientation, dis-census, and dis-obedience as necessary dispositions for unlearning and unmaking hegemony in the classroom. We invite participants to experience these affective dimensions of radical pedagogy and listen to the “noise” as they step into a three-dimensional virtual reality classroom we developed with the open-source platform Artsteps. As a corollary to the VR exhibition, which is available at https://www.artsteps.com/view/5d795b7124396e1a5c2cfd0b, this exhibition catalogue further contextualizes and interprets the artifacts, theorizing the productive juxtaposition of radical museology and radical pedagogy.

In this born digital project, we use the practices, genres, and logics of exhibition as an organizing framework for communicating a subversive approach to writing pedagogy. We have selected, arranged, interpreted, and juxtaposed artifacts from museums and from the University of Rhode Island (URI) first-year writing curriculum that tell a disjointed and fragmented story about what social justice work is possible in both museums and schools. In keeping with our work to disrupt sedimented writing instruction practices, we cultivate here dis-orientation, dis-census, and dis-obedience as necessary dispositions for unlearning and unmaking hegemony in the classroom. We invite participants to experience these affective dimensions of radical pedagogy and listen to the “noise” as they step into a three-dimensional virtual reality classroom we developed with the open-source platform Artsteps. As a corollary to the VR exhibition, which is available at https://www.artsteps.com/view/5d795b7124396e1a5c2cfd0b, this exhibition catalogue further contextualizes and interprets the artifacts, theorizing the productive juxtaposition of radical museology and radical pedagogy.

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move beyond boundaries of text and make meaning in this juxtaposition of textual and three-dimensional

space. In the in-between, we hope you’ll find inspiration and direction for social justice work in your own

writing classrooms.

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