In the context of public pedagogy: Transit

Abstract

Abstract I came to Vancouver, Canada as a visiting Ph.D. student to study a/r/tography at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The multinational and multicultural nature of the city of Vancouver became an unexpected learning resource during my stay. I soon became consumed by my own everyday learning and in time, I began to understand the power of public pedagogy, or in other words, those informal learning opportunities outside institutional forms of learning. In this visual essay, I examine the concept of transit as one dimension of public pedagogy. This concept emerged from photographs and anecdotes taken during my everyday use of public transit. I used a/r/tography as a practice-based art education research methodology to guide my work. Transit became a bodied and embodied form of living inquiry as I investigated the very nature of public transit as public pedagogy.