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Chapter 4: Mediation by the MaterialIn the previous chapter, dominant ideologies as expressed through constraints and promotions were found to influence student development in multiple ways. This chapter traces students’ non-communicative actions. It demonstrates how these choices and other production choices reveal aspects of the student-school relationships. A part of this is about the dominant ideologies and the lesser ideologies that compete with them, though the issue is not to define the ideologies but rather how they confront, evade, or otherwise relate to one another. Moreover, these ideologies are shown to be embodied in material environments, including the people who use them and contest them. This chapter first considers transcriptions and the decision to not use them. Then the question of how a place mediates activity is explored. The following section turns to de Certeau’s distinction between strategies and tactics and how these can be applied to video work. This analysis in particular demonstrates what students do with cameras as they consume a public education. It also reveals new levels of meaning as students alter their activity with the place they occupy. Finally a closer examination of one project from each school is shown to consider what the projects reveal about the students who produced them. |
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