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ARP: Participant Facing Documents
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ARP: Methodology
I had several commitments that I wanted to adhere to in choosing a research methodology. First, in keeping with the principles of Action Research, I wanted to run a workshop for students that not only provided me with the kinds … Continue reading
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Inclusive Practices: Race
Finnegan and Richard’s 2016 report, “Retention and Attainment in the Disciplines of Art and Design,” provides urgent statistical data for the need to address racial disparities in retention and attainment in art school. What I found particularly important about this … Continue reading
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Inclusive Practices: Faith
As someone raised Jewish and who has lived and worked in education in New York City for the past thirty years, I have found the discourse around religion in education in the UK incredibly foreign, more so than the other … Continue reading
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Inclusive Practices: Disability
Inclusive Practices: Blog 1 – Disability Collectively, the assemblage of articles, resources, and films around disability for this blogging task, speak to the wide range of experiences of disabled students, and consequently some of the challenges and opportunities of thinking … Continue reading
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Thoughts on “Race and the Neoliberal University”
Coming from the US, I found this comparative essay deeply resonant. I left the US, and higher education in general, undergoing a deep and painful and messy reckoning with issues of racial justice. Even considering the response to the BLM … Continue reading
Creative Attributes Framework (CAF)
I have been studying the Creative Attributes Framework developed UAL. Despite its rather off-putting name, and form, technocratic structure and graphic design, I am surprised how resonant the content is in relation to the work I am doing with students … Continue reading
Decolonising the Acting Curriculum
In “What Decolonising the Curriculum Really Means,” author Sofia Akel defines decolonising education as “the process in which we rethink, reframe and reconstruct the curricula and research that preserve the Europe-centred, colonial lens.” In the Acting and Performance Programme, we … Continue reading
Baby with the Bathwater: Reflections on “The reflection game: enacting the penitent self”
Baby with the Bathwater: Reflections on “The reflection game: enacting the penitent self” This 2009 article by Bruce Macfarlane and Lesley Gourlay in Teaching in Higher Education spoke directly to one of my ongoing and longstanding questions about my teaching whenever I … Continue reading