# Cosmos Café \[12/4\] - Subversive Pedagogy: The Intruder

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**Category:** Cosmos Café\
**Tags:** event, education\
**Created:** [November 28, 2018, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-12-4-subversive-pedagogy-the-intruder/2707 "2018-11-28T15:58:43Z")\
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> [@How to Cultivate Creativity](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/how-to-cultivate-creativity/1557):
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> Hi there! Not sure this belongs in this category, but I sense it could be a good conversation for our community. I’m presenting several pieces of media here, organized on this theme which I feel is crucial to Cosmos. If, as a community and functionally as a platform co-op, we want to encourage mutual skill development in the realm of creativity, how would we accomplish that? “Divergent thinking is an essential capacity for creativity”: I came across an article so striking that I had to investi…

@care_save’s question “If, as a community and functionally as a platform co-op, we want to encourage mutual skill development in the realm of creativity, how would we accomplish that?” is a worthy question. What type of education are we cultivating here? The full spectrum will include reflection, refraction and diffraction.

Also, keeping in mind the intruder aspect of @Gennifrey_Edwards’s piece, I like to imagine Reggie Watts as a TED intruder (surprised this talk wasn’t banned), as a creative example of what it means to be disruptive without dismantling the structure, what it means to do it from within:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BdHK_r9RXTc/maxresdefault.jpg "Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc)

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I’d also like to imagine a broader definition of subversive pedagogy and “learning environments” … isn’t any situation a chance to be the intruder? Isn’t any environment a space for subversive pedagogy? Can we intrude upon ourselves, reach beyond our daily set-up structures and create a learning environment “done from within?”

In tomorrow’s discussion, if I may intrude, I’d like to bring this perspective. 1: I am outside of academia and have no say so as to how one ought to teach in a university setting. I hear what others have stated but lack the experience. I will be coming into this as an outsider. 2: We have heard the complaints, the reasons for complaints and the reasons for change. I would like to know how to go beyond talking about the issue and have direct effect. 3: That, whether inside or outside, qualified or not, we each carry a personal prismatic perspective that adds to the full spectrum learning. How do we best harness individual refractions and bring this into new light?

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