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
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
Wellbeing
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
The Flourishing University
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
The Happiness Lab
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
Teaching and Freedom
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
Disability
Christine Sun Kim I was struck by the Frustration of having ideas you want to express but not the means to do so Dominance of verbal language We need to help students find the right communication methods for these ideas to be expressed. The necessary pedagogy would need to include: Trial and experiment Experience and… Continue reading Disability
Microteach Session: 17th March
Plan and Materials The session was called Character Building In this workshop, participants built a character together, starting with just one object image. Character is a key part of storytelling and storytelling is a key part of Illustration as a subject discipline. The session aimed to build research and development skills relating to narrative. The… Continue reading Microteach Session: 17th March
Feedback: 3rd March
Task 1 and 2 Large and Small Group Discussion: Invisible Audience Group Padlet: https://artslondon.padlet.org/lindsayjordan/y2rp3b0im4l69xpu Post 1 – ‘Celebrations Miro board Cultural, religious holidays, etc. – share photos, cultural insights’ Post 2 – ‘Virtual Pot Luck Students create an online recipe book of the food they would have made and brought in for a ‘real life’… Continue reading Feedback: 3rd March
Feedback: 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