The After School Workbook expands on themes explored in After School 課後 with pages of open-ended questions, prompts, cut-out work, and drawing exercises. It asks: What is the relationship between discipline and learning? How do governments and dominant cultures use education and assessment as a form of social control? How are incentives used in the classroom, and do they reproduce capitalistic values? The cover mimics examination Blue Books, while the interior cannibalizes old Futurelink workbooks and appropriates educational language and graphics from the late nineties and aughts. Because of the source material, the Workbook reflects a different era of “educational aesthetics,” one that is decidedly DIY, pencil-and-paper based, and predates the ubiquity of screens—and now artificial intelligence—in the classroom.

8.5” x 11”
24 pages

Printed in an edition of 100 on 30% recycled copy paper. Saddle-stitched with loop staples. Each copy is unique with hand-applied color and stamp.

This project was made possible with the support of the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.