Constructive Alignment
Constructive alignment questions the effectiveness of the hierarchical model of learning and teaching; where a teacher imparts ‘knowledge’ onto a student who subsequently remembers it; by remembering...
View ArticleThreshold Concepts
Threshold Concepts represents a transformation through learning. The process of learning shifts to a ‘process of becoming'; a student becomes literate / fluent within a system of knowledge or...
View ArticleCommunities of Practice revisited
I first read Wenger’s Community of practice (2006) in October at the beginning of the PG Cert, as a result I am now aware of the various, and in many ways interconnected, communities of practices...
View ArticleUnit 02: TDP — Identify a problem and construct a research question
What problem, challenge or issue have you identified within your teaching practice that will form the basis for your Teaching Development Project? Throughout art and design education students are...
View ArticleUnit 02: Teaching Development Project Proposal
Will enabling students to define the evaluation criteria, establish a shared language framework and identify ‘best practice’ in a crit, achieve an active arena of student communication and...
View ArticleWhat does ‘Creativity’ mean to you, and in your discipline?
“When inspiration comes, may it find me working…” Pablo Picasso To me creativity is not a one off expression, or a flash of inspiration, nor a singular occurrence, but the product of an ongoing process...
View ArticleThe Purpose of Assessment
Broadfoot (1996) asserts that assessment can be understood through the interplay of the themes; competence, competition and control. Education is an apparatus of social control, to legitimise,...
View ArticleWhat is Widening Participation?
Chapter 1 of Inclusive Practices, Inclusive pedagogies: Learning from Widening Participation in Art and Design Higher Education by Bhagat and O’Neil (2011) has illustrated that this area is deeply...
View ArticleLive Project: Supporting Change
1. How do you plan to address issues around diversity through this course development? In order to address the issues around diversity I have looked at Part Three: Diversity Strategy 2010–2015 of the...
View ArticleParticipation in Activities
I have found the DWPI module to be incredibly insightful and illuminating, it has prompted me to question my teaching practice and the social constructs that operate on us. Bourdieu’s concept of...
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