Kindness in Educational Critique
Kindness in Educational Critique

Summary/Abstract: Opening up one’s work to critique can place a creator in a vulnerable position. We explore what kindness might bring to the tricky, emotionally charged, risky event of the critique. Can kindness enhance the critique’s potential to be educational, by nurturing the creator’s capacity to create newness? For us, kindness is not lenience, but emerges in nonviolent encounters with difference, in which the self is open and susceptible to being moved by difference, seeking even to preserve it. We offer a definition of critique in the context of education. We draw on theory and practice in art education and family therapy to propose how critics might enact kindness while forming their critique, by grounding their comments in their nonviolent encounter with the work being considered.

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