krstich-2016-pedagogy-play-fluxus
Krstich, Vesna. The Pedagogy of Play: Fluxus, Happenings, and Curriculum Reform in the 1960s. 2016. https://cmagazine.com/articles/the-pedagogy-of-play-fluxus-happenings-and-curriculum-reform-in
“Education, then, offers a mode of play – one that requires balancing autonomy with instruction, open-ended inquiry with results and institutional demands”
“According to Kaprow, schools are partially responsible for creating this separation: the intrinsic value of play and the process of learning gets obfuscated by “hard work” and the need to win. Education becomes a game, played by teachers, students and administrators alike. Students realize that in order to advance, to gain employment or higher education, they need to compete for grades and for status.”
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