Brooks (2008) ‘Could do better?’ Students’ critique of written feedback’ investigates how students perceive, use, and engage with written summative feedback. Having just marked BA Drawing Units 2 and 9, I thought this article would help with my ongoing reflection on the subject which I have further explored in Case Study 3. I was relieved… Continue reading Blog post 4: Reflections on written summative feedback
Category: Unit 1
Blog post 3: The Studio as Signature Pedagogy
Orr and Shreeve (2017) describe the studio as one of many signature pedagogies within art and design. These are core activities from the professional context translated into the university setting to equip students with essential skills needed for the real world. They postulate that ‘A space may not seem like pedagogy, but in its widest… Continue reading Blog post 3: The Studio as Signature Pedagogy
Blog post 2: Identity and belonging
The cultural theorist Stuart Hall writes ‘identity is not a set of fixed attributes. The unchanging essence of the inner self, but a constantly shifting process of positioning. We tend to think of identity as taking us back to our roots, the part of us which remains essentially the same across time. In fact, identity… Continue reading Blog post 2: Identity and belonging
Blog post 1: Diversifying curriculum content
Against the backdrop of liberation struggles and burgeoning new independent states in Africa, this paper, ‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anti‐Colonial Solidarity (Savage, 2022) looks at how art contributes to the shaping of national agendas and identities. Savage sheds light on the experiences of Mozambican design students… Continue reading Blog post 1: Diversifying curriculum content
Case Study 1: Fostering belonging and not knowing
Context Year 1 BA Drawing students experience many transitions in their first year of university. These include leaving home for the first time, becoming independent, navigating the new context of HE, encountering new socio-economic and power dynamics, peer-peer and student-teacher relationships. It is a vulnerable period that may impact their sense of belonging which Goodenow… Continue reading Case Study 1: Fostering belonging and not knowing
Case Study 3: Descriptors or no Descriptors?
Context Unit 2 is a Pass/Fail unit for which Year 1 BA Drawing students receive a short summative feedback with generic wording (Fig. 1). While the feedback tells students whether they have progressed to the next unit or not, it does not give any other indication of their individual performance. Evaluation Previously, we have added… Continue reading Case Study 3: Descriptors or no Descriptors?
Case Study 2: Developing curatorial concepts workshop
Context I delivered this one-day workshop and talk on Developing Curatorial Concepts for Year 3 BA Drawing students. It formed part of Unit 10 which focuses on realising a final body of work for the Degree Show and developing professional practice for life after university. Students were introduced to six strategies for developing compelling exhibition… Continue reading Case Study 2: Developing curatorial concepts workshop
Reviews of Teaching Practice
Micro-teaching: (Un)Learning to Draw
My micro-teaching session focused on embracing chance, unpredictability and process over outcome when drawing. It was designed with Year 1 Drawing students in mind. Many students join the course directly from Sixth-Form and depending on their educational curriculum, may come with conventional perceptions of drawing. Through dialogue, presentation and unconventional drawing tools, I aimed to… Continue reading Micro-teaching: (Un)Learning to Draw