After my tutorial with my tutor, Tim, I felt inspired to revisit the reading material I briefly mentioned in my first blog post, Teaching at UAL. The article Embracing the Silence: Introverted Learning and the Online Classroom by Karen Harris explores how the shift to online learning fosters a more contemplative and inclusive teaching approach. […]
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Before my microteaching session “Paper,” I read Kirsten Hardie’s HEA report “Innovative pedagogies series: Wow: The power of objects in object-based learning and teaching objects.” The report shows how objects facilitate deep learning through surprise, intrigue, and engagement, creating rich learning experiences through learners’ wonder and pleasure in objects. As someone who learns best through […]
Summary Reading 1: How do art and design technicians conceive of their role inhigher education? by Clare Sams This research examines the roles of art and design technicians at the University of the Arts London (UAL). Through various research methods, participants reflected on their perspectives regarding their higher education roles. The findings reveal that technicians […]
Summary ‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anti-Colonial Solidarity by Polly Savage examines the significance and legacy of the art educational programme that connected young Mozambican artists with the socialist USSR in the latter half of the 20th century. Through a series of conversations with former students […]