Progressive Learning Procedure Chart for School Swimming in David A. Armbruster, Robert H. Allen, and Hobert Sherwood Billingsley, Swimming and Diving, Fifth Edition, C. V. Mosby Co., 1968, via @eldiagram.bsky.social thediagram.com/26_3/allstro...
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![Let’s pay closer attention to Lost & Found’s “CUNY Pedagogy Series.” This series exists as a set of lovely chapbooks (which I’ll bring to class if I can find my copies in storage, and which our hosts can surely share!), but it’s also freely available online via the Manifold digital publishing platform; you’ll find links to each volume here. You’re welcome to skim any or all, and to engage more closely with those segments pique your interest, but the following sections seem most directly relevant to our study of public study:
* Toni Cade Bambara, “Realizing the Dream of a Black University” in Realizing the Dream of a Black University & Other Writings, Part II, edited by Makeba Lavan & Conor Tomás Reed (Lost & Found, 2017).
* June Jordan, “The City and the City College: An Off-Campus, Off-Camera Perspective” and “Statement at CUNY Board of Higher Education Tuition Hearing [May 5, 1976]” in Life Studies, 1966-1976, edited by Conor Tomás Reed and Talia Shalev (Lost & Found, 2017).
* Adrienne Rich, “Notes, Statements & Memos on Seek, Basic Writing & the Interdisciplinary Program” in Teaching at CUNY, 1968-1974, Part I, edited by Iemanjá Brown, Stefania Heim, erica kaufman, Kristin Moriah, Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev, Wendy Tronrud, and Ammiel Alcalay (Lost & Found, 2013).
* Adrienne Rich, “Teaching Materials: Book Lists, Syllabi, Notes & Assignments” in Teaching at CUNY, 1968-1974, Part II, edited by Iemanjá Brown, Stefania Heim, erica kaufman, Kristin Moriah, Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev, Wendy Tronrud, and Ammiel Alcalay (Lost & Found, 2013).
Audre Lorde, “Syllabi, Teaching Journals, Notes, and Course Proposals From John Jay College of Criminal Justice” and “Syllabi, Outlines, and Teaching Notes From Hunter College” in “I Teach Myself in Outline”: Notes, Journals, Syllabi, edited by Miriam Atkin and Iemanjá Brown (Lost & Found, 2017).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jtzxnbwxwbywld23yvnyokzf/bafkreiheyfqgmhnmtl3yfbzm7ghzfum7koctqjgrho4nbo4goe55tuzlve)
![To Prepare for This Week:
Please read Wallace Kirsop, “Museums, Lyceums, Athenaeums and Mechanics’ Institutes,” Script & Print 30:4 (2006): 210-22. And just for fun: check out the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge :)
Review the General Society for Mechanics and Tradesmen’s website and their Wikipedia page. Don’t miss their Mossman Lock Collection, which we’ll get to explore during our visit! The New York Center for Independent Publishing was (and maybe still is?) housed within the Society, too.
Skim through Mechanics’ Magazine, vol. 1 (New York, 1833) and the General Society material included in Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York, a cross-institutional repository that METRO manages for the NYC region. This list of rules for the Apprentices’ Library (1832) and the range of topics addressed in the 1842-3 lecture series help to capture the vibe :)
Now, please watch Jennifer Tobias, “Working with the Hands: Applied Arts Training in New York City, 1800-2020,” Bard Graduate Center (January 21, 2021) [22:40, plus Q&A], and skim through the accompanying document.
Please explore, too, Or Zubalsky and Caroline Woolard’s work on Trade School (2009-19). To learn more, read Nana Asfour, “Trade School: Bartering for Skills with OurGoods,” The New Yorker (March 24, 2011) and skim through Woolard’s “How to Start a Trade School” (2012).
You can learn more about Or on their website; they’ve highlighted a few projects, like their collective newsletter and circulating digital keys, that exemplify their work on socio-technical infrastructures to support public study.
Consider other contemporary spaces for trade and craft study. Check out the embroidery classes at Tatter, glass-blowing at Brooklyn Glass, boat-building at Village Community Boathouse or Brooklyn Boatworks, creative and critical coding and hardware-building at the School for Poetic Computation...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jtzxnbwxwbywld23yvnyokzf/bafkreig4bplkrwfloqsukgmiy4jhynys6yqjscthkmwwhv33zmurhqblyq)
