Main Idea: The Living Curriculum
A series of projects intended to build course community.
- Natural Dye Garden
- Quilt Club
- Celebration Dinners
- Graffiti Space
Some staff-led, some student-led.
Growing out student interests.
Events for a broader range of students to be included than are currently in pub quizzes and club nights.
| Ideas | Origin |
| Need for this type of informal activity | Design Case Study |
| Cross Cultural Discussion Group Everyone involved but not assessed | Citizens of Somewhere Article |
| Technical Coffee Mornings Building trust and relationships | R-peer |
| Celebrations Miro Board Virtual Pot-Luck | Feedback Session |
| Interest in students as people Dialogic and responsive approach Creating opportunities for students to share themselves and for curriculum to bend to their aims | LJ Student Stories |
| Belong to a course community But acknowledge that they come from and are part of multiple communities Not replace and not supersede these others | Anna Julia Cooper |
| Focus on community not safety Welcome conflict and dissent as part of the multi-cultural classroom | Bell Hooks |
| Pedagogy of Hospitality and Learning Communities Ontology – Ways of Being | Barnett |
| Community acting as living curriculum Life as real learning event | Communities of Practice |