Places of Learning

Elizabeth Ellsworth is Emeritus Professor of Media Studies at The New School, New York City, where she is co-director of smudge studio. She is co-editor (with Jamie Kruse) of Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life and also author of Teaching Positions: Difference, Pedagogy, and the Power of Address.

"In her role as a pedagogical curator, Elizabeth Ellsworth astutely takes an array of sources, which she fashions as convincing evidence in an argument that challenges our very conceptions of learning and knowledge. And like a thoughtful curator she does more than describe ensembles, or represent and interpret emergent themes. Rather, she offers a site for remaking our ideas of what we see and feel in the presence of learning." -- Graeme Sullivan, Art Education, Teachers College Columbia University"At this moment when educators and designers are rediscovering the importance of direct experience and knowledge-making, Elizabeth Ellsworth presents very important information and insights. This book is a must read for leaders in design, education, and beyond." -- Dorothy Dunn, Head of Education, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

• Introduction1. The Materiality of Pedagogy: Sensations Crucial to Understandings2. Pedagogy’s Hinge: Putting Inside and Outside into Relation3. Pedagogy’s Time and Space4. Oblique Pedagogies, Conflict, and Democracy5. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Scene of Pedagogical Address6. Media, Architecture, and the Moving Subject of PedagogyConclusion: Pedagogy in the Making