Category: Teaching and Learning: Extra 1

Lindsay Jordan: Love and Belonging in the Educational Realm, Anna Julia Cooper Anna Julia Cooper talking about being on the margins of different worlds Belonging – what we belong to – Different groups Maybe in thinking about student journey this what we need to be more specific about – what we want them to belong… Continue reading Belonging

Ronald Barnett: A Will to Learn Anxiety ‘A pedagogical task of higher education lies in helping students to understand that anxiety is a condition of being a student’ ‘A pedagogical achievement of higher education is that – on the student’s part – of coming to live purposefully with anxiety.’ (page 36) ‘the epistemological anxiety is… Continue reading A Will to Learn

I have not begun working out these yet: ‘Learning sessions directly engaging students in activities and discussion around their own learning role’ But I have started this: ‘Opening up discussion around the language educators use when gathering feedback and why a word like ‘satisfaction’ is problematic.’ _____________________ What I did 1. Invited student reps to… Continue reading Learning Roles and Feedback

Spark: UAL Creative Teaching and Learning Journal / Vol 3 / Issue 1 (2018):Citizens of somewhere: How a cross-cultural discussion group offers opportunities for intercultural understanding ‘make the most of the opportunities that internationalisation brings’ ‘they felt isolated and ignored in tutorials or discussions by some home students, who seemed to already have established their… Continue reading Cross-Cultural Group

Contemplative Pedagogy This would be relevant at any time but maybe particularly during the pandemic and in an online environment? Method 1: Mindfulness (Barbezat and Bush) Could be used during tutorials and crits? Method 2: Beholding (Barbezat and Bush, Haynes, Joel Upton) Could be used during lectures, seminars? Method 3: Contemplative Reading (Barbezat and Bush,… Continue reading Contemplative Pedagogy

The psychology session I created already (See Session Extra: The Happiness Lab) could be combined with a collaboration with the UAL mental health services. This is informed by what I learnt about the importance of embedding wellbeing in discipline and avoiding taking over from trained professionals and services. This also connects with other university programmes… Continue reading Wellbeing

Queen Mary University of London, Centre for the History of the Emotions: The Flourishing University, Wellbeing in Higher Education Seminar, podcast and interviews: https://blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk/flourishing/category/student-mental-health/ Notes: Panel Discussion: Should Universities Teach Wellbeing? 21st May 2019 Universities need to make sure they don’t take over responsibilities from other services – NHS Embed in discipline and tie into… Continue reading The Flourishing University

Dr Laurie Santos: Psychology and the Good Life Psychology and the Good Life taught by Dr Laurie Santos became the most successful class in the university’s history and a podcast The Happiness Lab (https://www.happinesslab.fm/) She created it in response to her experience of mental health crisis she experienced amongst students: “In the last five years,… Continue reading The Happiness Lab

Bell Hooks: Teaching to Transgress, Education as the Practice of Freedom Union of mind, body and spirit ‘The idea of the intellectual questing for a union of mind, body, and spirit had been replaced with notions that being smart meant that one was inherently emotionally unstable and that the best in oneself emerged in one’s… Continue reading Teaching and Freedom