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
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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