ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the pedagogy of social and community practice. It encourages an international network of tertiary courses teaching community and social practice. The chapter describes the development of an international network dedicated to community and social practice pedagogy, to begin the dialogue and development of a global commitment to the future of the field. Social practice educators and administrators, often artists themselves, will frame their pedagogy, as praxis. In the visual art classroom, reflexivity is frequently taught as the final of three competencies in critical pedagogy: production, perception and reflection. Artist-educators are using pedagogical practice as research, leading classes of students and themselves into communities and spaces, often for the first time for all involved, with the potential to generate relationships leading to creative engagement, resilient communities and profound social change. Teaching social practice and community-engaged art practice requires pedagogical methodologies that match the values and philosophical underpinnings of social practice discourse.
