Nicholas Paley

"Questions of You and the Struggle of Collaborative Life" explores the nature of the collaborative experience. It examines the complex issues involved as two educators work together to understand the conceptual perspectives they develop, the research processes they create, and the multiple, shifting possibilities for personal and social change at stake in such searching and making. Organized around diverse analytic approaches including narrative, autobiographic, fictive, poetic, and theoretic genres, this book is an experimental project that examines what we may know, how we might know, and in what ways we can express our understanding of the collaborative research experience.

Finding Art's Place showcases three artistic/educational experiments located outside of school settings. Nicholas Paley presents the texts, voices and the teaching and learning practices of Tim Rollins + K. O. S. (Kids of Survival); the video work of Sadie Benning, the adolescent filmmaker who has won critical acclaim for her sensitive self-explorations of her lesbian sexuality; and the photographic efforts of Jim Hubbard, who shares his expertise with homeless and urban children in Washington, D. C. Finding Art's Place explores the many ways education occurs in each of these experiments. Allowing the children and young adults, their mentors and their work to speak for themselves about their educational experiences, Paley brings forward multiple standpoints on educational methodologies and materials, identity, literacy, and the configurations of art in the lives of urban youth.