Applied Non-didactics

The anthologyApplied Non-didactics, edited by Frank Brümmel features text by authors Gert Biesta, Frank Brümmel, Luis Guerra, Heli Kauppila & Marika Orenius, Magnus Quaife, Minna Suoniemi & Marja Rastas, Hanna Vahvaselkä and Sanna Vuolteenaho. This publication on Applied Non-didactics suggests a way in which education, art and their social contexts can intertwine to transcend traditional boundaries. It seeks to redefine the connections between instruction and discovery by suggesting an act of teaching and learning that honours art and its intrinsic possibilities. Applied Non-didactics advocates for art as not just as an aesthetic endeavour but as an invitation, part of a transformative space in which real educational moments can happen as part of an act of becoming. Taking these ideas as a framework and an encouragement, the contributors to the book lay out various ways in which such educational moments might happen, drawing from their diverse backgrounds as practitioners, theorists and educators. They, and the book as a whole, share an interest in the way these roles might interlink and intercommunicate.