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Criticality and Biases In Talking Art as the Spirit Moves Us, American theorist, feminist, educator and social critic bell hooks (1995) illustrates how ignorant members of one culture are to members of another, how negatively the dominant culture’s arrogance affects … Continue reading
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CASE STUDY 2
Plan for and support student learning through appropriate approaches and environments. The course I’m teaching on, MA Innovative Fashion Production, aims to prepare the students for changing design and production systems to help lessen the environmental impact of the fashion … Continue reading
CASE STUDY 1
Knowing and responding to students’ diverse needs Background Not long ago, I was a student on the course I’m teaching on, MA Innovative Fashion Production. During my studies, I struggled with the weekly workload because I wasn’t able to work … Continue reading
Microteaching
Ideation Accelerator The idea for my object-based learning activity stems from a recent classroom situation. I encouraged the students to always generate more ideas than needed, in this case, to generate more research topic ideas. To illustrate my point, I … Continue reading
BLOG POST 2: Social Justice
The Role of Universities I left Workshop 1 wondering what the purpose of education is. What is the role of the teacher? What is the role of the university? What is their purpose? The group task that prompted these questions … Continue reading
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BLOG POST 1: The International Student
Learnings from my set reading The International Student Experience My assigned reading Savage’s ‘The New Life’, prompted me to reflect on the Eurocentric socio-political landscape in Higher Education in Arts opposed to the Russian-centric one described in the study and … Continue reading
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The Socio-Political Context
… of Higher Education Reading the article a second time, I shifted my focus away from the student experience towards the socio-political context. The International context, the research is set in, consists of two stakeholders, a group of socialist countries, … Continue reading
Reading is not Neutral
Shifting Attention “Reading is not a neutral activity” Victor said on Friday, “You always bring a bit of yourself into the reading.” On Monday the following week, I read through the article again. “Reading is not a neutral activity” Victor … Continue reading
About Me
I’m Eva. I teach on the MA Innovative Fashion Production course at London College of Fashion situated in East London, East Bank. I’m curious about the PgCert Academic Practice course and excited about being a student again. I’m looking forwards … Continue reading
