Category: Teaching and Learning: Reading

Performing to an Invisible Audience _______________________________________________________________ There were many useful tips however this was the most significant for me: Perfection can get in the way of real connection. Imperfection can put back into the online realm what is missing – the human. Keep imperfections. I’d thought about imperfection being ok, in the light of self-compassion… Continue reading Feedback: Reading

All About Love Bell Hooks It still feels radical for someone to say emotions and life experience have a place in the academic world. Could I use my own more extensively? Love’s ‘transformative power’ This idea – of love as a force in learning, in living and in society and that it is Higher Education’s… Continue reading Love and Belonging: Reading

Understanding Art: The Play of Work and the Spectator Monica Vilhauer UNDERSTANDING AS PLAY ‘A shared understanding is in this way an interpretive event that takes place in a play of presenting and recognising meaning.’ Page 32 An idea of understanding being joyful feels powerful and accurate. Reminds me of W.B Yeats quote from the… Continue reading Play and Measurement: Reading

Improving teaching: Enhancing ways of being university teachers Gloria Dall’Alba Race and the Neoliberal University: Lessons from the Public University John Holmwood How does Gloria Dall’Alba’s account of teaching development in universities correspond with your own thoughts and experience? Her account corresponds with my own when it talks about teaching going beyond knowledge and skills… Continue reading Teaching Learning: Reading