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CASE STUDY 3
Assess and/or give feedback for learning. Course: MA Innovative Fashion Production, Year 2024/25 Introduction Recently, two students were asking for a conversation to clarify upon the feedback and grade I had given them. They felt they had been treated unfairly … Continue reading
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Learning Outcomes x Social, Racial and Climate Justice When I started teaching and more importantly, with it – marking, I came to realise with revelatory appreciation the power and significance of Learning Outcomes. I experienced for the first time, how … Continue reading
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Observation
Review of teaching practice The observation of my teaching practice by my peer Julia Redman and my tutor Kwame Baah took place on the 11th of February, 2025. I observed my peer Julia Redman’s teaching practice on the 24th of … Continue reading
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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
