A book challenging the hegemony of the written representations of learning, engaged with through a written reflective post.
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Creating Space for Exchange: Presentation
A presentation giving an overview the project regarding engagement with stakeholders and experts as well as interventions and resultant learning.
For such a tangled system as UAL, there is no magic bullet solution to supporting cross-disciplinary exchange, but rather a decentralised, diffuse approach seems most effective with the time I have available.
“Cross-disciplinary project-oriented and theme-oriented creative work is no longer a niche for experimental or activist art; rather it has become a mainstream skill requirement for the commercial market.”
What does it mean to reify an idea, to give it weight and meaning?
Can that be done in writing? How do ideas spread in the world?
Why are community and collaboration important?
Can these concepts be represented in poetry?
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John Dewey on Experience & Education
Dipping into pragmatist and educational theorist John Dewey’s ideas and their application to my project and the current educational environment. “The principle that development of experience comes about through interaction means that education is essentially a social process.”
An afternoon discussing education, the founding and running of an alternative elementary school in the 1980s to today, pedagogical values and inspirational education thinkers, and reflection on my current project. Plus, communal singing!
Darla-jane expressed a desire to empower students to stop thinking “this is just the way it is” and instead feel “we have the power to change how it is.”
Also, reviewing the KE strategy document and understand the KE ecosystem!
Discussion with Culture & Enterprise and Spatial Practices Academic Support Lecturer on his role, collaboration, and challenges: understanding the structure and roles of those within.
A damning portrait of the state of higher education today: neoliberal market forces have corporatised and commercialised universities to death.