Looking ahead to what this unit might serve me for the rest of the course, and beyond it has initiated two points I wish to briefly cover here as potential thoughts for my Action Research Project. It has sparked interest in the situated spaces of academia, teaching, learning, and the higher education institute — the two […]
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As I’m reflecting on the first unit of the PgCert, I realise that the conversations that I’ve had have throughout these few weeks have been the most revelatory thing. At times they’ve felt utterly profound. I will name a couple of instances. One came in the discussion that served as my observation with my tutor. […]
After reading Allan Davies’ (2012) paper, I am reflecting on assessment and assessment criteria. I must admit that (except for the first couple of times I marked student work) I’ve always quite enjoyed what the ambiguity of assessment criteria affords — how the written assessment of submitted work varies slightly between tutors as perceptual opinions […]
NB — this post I wrote immediately after the first workshop day in early January 2024 and haven’t edited it, except adding footnotes and a reference, and thus its validity for the submission is debatable. It does however give a diary-like insight to my thoughts at the time. ——— Reflections on the first day of […]
In this post I will summarise and reflect on Polly Savage’s 2022 paper ‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anti-Colonial Solidarity. The paper by Savage (2022) discusses the experiences and resulting influences of Mozambican art and design students who studied across the Soviet Union during the Cold War […]