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

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 

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