HIERARCHY OF SUBJECTS
This series is a criticism of the current education system particularly addressing its bias, lack of efficiency and aims to highlight a need for a system that adapts with our transforming culture and society. We’re educating students for a future we know nothing about; education should be fluid and responsive to our evolving culture geared to coach youth to think for themselves. Furthermore, the current paradigm is flawed as it forces students to adapt to a singular method of learning, endangering young minds twofold: it limits creativity for those who assimilate and consequentially neglects those who don’t.
Hierarchy of Subjects illustrates the 6 traditional academic subjects represented by appropriated images on each face of a Rubik’s cube in this series of photographs. Each exhibits a different rate of contrast based on their level of implied status ranking from highest: English, Mathematics, Science, History/Geography, Humanities and Physical Education.
This series is a criticism of the current education system particularly addressing its bias, lack of efficiency and aims to highlight a need for a system that adapts with our transforming culture and society. We’re educating students for a future we know nothing about; education should be fluid and responsive to our evolving culture geared to coach youth to think for themselves. Furthermore, the current paradigm is flawed as it forces students to adapt to a singular method of learning, endangering young minds twofold: it limits creativity for those who assimilate and consequentially neglects those who don’t.
Hierarchy of Subjects illustrates the 6 traditional academic subjects represented by appropriated images on each face of a Rubik’s cube in this series of photographs. Each exhibits a different rate of contrast based on their level of implied status ranking from highest: English, Mathematics, Science, History/Geography, Humanities and Physical Education.
The viewer is also presented with two physical cubes, one that is solved and one that has been jumbled.
The former symbolizes the end goal, of completion of schooling and of academic success achieved by following standardized curriculum.
The jumbled cube however symbolizes the starting point; it is representative of the confusion, of the lack of allure and interest (emphasized by the indiscernible monochromatic aspect of the images) experienced by those who do not benefit or excel from the current education system, and therefore inhibits their ability to achieve the desired end result.