Category Archives: Reflections

Workshop #4 (+ Reflexion #4): Learning Outcomes & Make the Grade checklist 

Reading: Learning outcomes and assessment criteria in art and design. What’s the recurring problem?, Allan Davies (2012)  This article discusses the development of learning outcomes, and more specifically in relation to the specification of the assessment criteria in art and … Continue reading

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Workshop #3. Reading Activity: Aims and outcomes (and Reflexions #3)

Reading Abstract  The article explores the concept of aesthetic learning in arts education, focusing on its goal and means. Aesthetic learning is defined through two dimensions: convergent versus divergent goals and medium-specific versus medium-neutral means. Convergent learning is goal-oriented and … Continue reading

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Micro-teaching: OBL activity

The activity  See session slides attached below: And the activity outcome: conceptual map of a candle. Context & reflection  When designing this Object Based Learning activity, I tried to think of how I could apply OBL in my own academic -but … Continue reading

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Reflections #2.

Embracing the silence For our second workshop reading activity (Teaching at UAL), I read ‘Embracing the silence: introverted learning and the online classroom ‘, by Karen Harris.  Harris’ article resonates with me and leads me to reflect on my own … Continue reading

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Workshop #1. Reading Activity: Arts Pedagogy (And Reflections #1)

Article 4 in the list: The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anti-colonial Solidarity, Polly Savage.  This is an article on the role of art and artists in a post-revolutionary society, and the … Continue reading

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