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Research Participants / Sample

My participants are taken from a small sample of students undertaking the Visual Communication: Design-Society-Nature Programme at The Margate School. There are 6 students enrolled on the programme. Five of these students gave their informed consent to take part in my ARP. One of the group didn’t collect visual research and told me they felt… Continue reading Research Participants / Sample

Photo voice Methodology:

Photovoice is a qualitative research method that emphasises individual and community action. Popularised in the 90s by Wang & Burris (1997) with in the context of public health. Photovoice methodology was originally conceived as a methodology that could be used to influencing public policy. However, in the context I am using it, I am inviting… Continue reading Photo voice Methodology:

Session 2: Intersectionality

https://www.history.com/news/brown-v-board-of-education-doll-experiment In relation to the term ‘whiteness’ Aisha suggested we research the ‘white doll, black doll experiment’. ‘we are born into whiteness’ (Montana Williamson) if whiteness is the dominant culture. Shades of Noir: Queer Bodieshttps://issuu.com/shadesofnoir/docs/queer_bodies_online/20?ff ‘Gender is complicated, but respect is simple’ ‘Staff Moving On’ Shades of Noir interview transcript: https://shadesofnoir.org.uk/journals/content/staff-moving-on Feminism & the challenge… Continue reading Session 2: Intersectionality

Reading: Key aspects of teaching and learning in the visual arts

Shreeve, A, Wareing, S & Drew, L 2008, Key Aspects of Teaching and Learning in the Visual Arts. in H Fry, S Ketteridge & S Marshall (eds), A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Enhancing Academic Practice . 3rd edn, Routledge.  Notes & Reflections: The following ‘educational traditions’ as they are referred to in this chapter are… Continue reading Reading: Key aspects of teaching and learning in the visual arts

My Micro-Teaching

Planning  I found it quite hard to settle on a micro-teaching idea. I considered three initial ideas;  1. A session focused on decoding advertising, by analysing visual language and semiotics. The main learning outcome aligned to the key principles of semiotics as discussed by Roland Barthes in The Rhetoric of the Image (1964). Also highlighting the… Continue reading My Micro-Teaching

A Case Study: The Anti-University of London

An interesting reference I came across relating to our discussions last week, is the Anti-University of London. It was a short-lived experiment in alternative radical education in the late 1960s. Founded by a group of activists and theorists including anti-psychiatry, psychiatrist, R.D Lang (anti-psychiatry) and cultural theorist Stuart Hall (representation). Both were critical of the… Continue reading A Case Study: The Anti-University of London

Object-Based Learning

Cross Programme Event: Object-based Learning in Art and Design2 Feb 2022 / Judy Willcocks, Head of Central Saint Martins Museum & Study Collection and Senior Research Fellow.Central Saint Martins Museum & Study Collection https://arts.ac.libguides.com/c.php?g=686452&p=4906489 https://sparkjournal.arts.ac.uk/index.php/spark/issue/view/9 OBL: A form of experiential learning involving the senses, including haptic (touch). My Thoughts, Reflections & Ideas:I really enjoyed hearing… Continue reading Object-Based Learning

Theories, Policies & Practices / Intro Workshop

14 Jan 2022. Tutorial Group Introductory Workshop My Introductory Presentation // Winston-Silk, Jacqueline. “Deaccessioning and reimagining: a novel approach to object-based learning.” (2019). https://sparkjournal.arts.ac.uk/index.php/spark/article/view/130 ________________________________________________________________ I am interested in object-based learning & how an object can be a vehicle for narrative. Speculative exercise of imagining a vision of the future using objects to think about… Continue reading Theories, Policies & Practices / Intro Workshop