Task 1 Small Group Discussion: Based on our Reading Notes: Breakout Group #2 Patience article so relevant to now. Particularly teaching online – talking into a blank space, holding on to chat notes, feeling very distanced; JW feels disengaged with this. Affective pedagogy not being valued connected to larger power dynamics – considered part of… Continue reading Love and Belonging: 17th Feb
Love and Belonging: 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
Play and Measurement: 3rd Feb
Task 1 Small Group Discussion: How do I behave in group discussion? Collective points: Being a facilitator Combining approaches Making space for others Individual points: Listener Contributer Engage, reflect back, clarify, ask questions to help me fully understand other people’s contributions This was a valuable way to prepare us for the group discussion element of… Continue reading Play and Measurement: 3rd Feb
Play and Measurement: 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
Teaching and Learning: 20th Jan
Here is a link to the presentation I gave on my own teaching, professional and creative identity and piece of pedagogy: https://artslondon-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/m_elgon_arts_ac_uk/EfIBIhB34YlCjX1ntTXIRxYBhHTfNJKWYGLMtCiLcdQzWg?e=0azFBA Here are my responses to some of the presentations from my group: V V worked for a long time in the NHS. She is a qualified cognitive behavioural therapist. She was delighted when… Continue reading Teaching and Learning: 20th Jan
Teaching Learning: 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
Peers: 8th Jan
What interaction did you have with your peers? In the chat, through comments and questions. What can I learn? Peers expressed worries about understanding elements of the course. This resonated with me and made me realise and remember how vulnerable it feels to be a student. Peer comments made me feel excited and moved by… Continue reading Peers: 8th Jan
Delivery: 8th Jan
How was the session delivered? I was impressed by the attitude and approach I saw demonstrated by Lindsey Jordan and James Wisdom. They were extremely open to input, advice and conflicting opinions and beliefs from us, their students. Lindsay was transparent about issues or problems encountered and actively invited input. This reinforced our roles and… Continue reading Delivery: 8th Jan
University Context: 8th Jan
Lecture: Victoria Odeniyi, Re-imagining conversations with multilingual students _____________________________________ VO: Slide 2: ’Diversity sometimes described as a problem not as a resource (see Dovchin, 2020)’ and Slide 9: ‘Languages other than English absent’. What can I learn? What needs to be worked against. How can I apply what I’ve learnt? This could be addressed in… Continue reading University Context: 8th Jan
Higher Education Context: 8th Jan
Lecture: James Wisdom, The Context of HE JW: Comments about the coming recession This made me think – What impact would/should this have on curriculum design? Will this affect what students might need a course to be? They might need an increased sense as never before of the world outside and the skills required, beyond… Continue reading Higher Education Context: 8th Jan