Reflection on reading: Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed has had a significant impact on teaching in higher education, particularly in the fields of social justice and critical pedagogy. Freire’s ideas challenge the traditional top-down approach to education, in which the teacher is seen as the authority figure who transmits knowledge to passive students. Instead,…
Cohort Seminar 27.02.23 TASK: As a group, choose and read a text (20 mins). Explain the text as a group to the other group (5 mins each). Our group selected the text ‘All About Love’ by Bell Hooks (2000) focusing on the preface and introduction to the book. Link to text: https://wtf.tw/ref/hooks.pdf Reflections Outdated, the…
“Pedagogy of Hope” is a sequel to Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”, published in 1992. The book builds on Freire’s critical pedagogy and provides a nuanced understanding of the relationship between education, politics, and society. In “Pedagogy of Hope,” Freire offers a reflective account of his experiences as an educator and activist, and his…
Object based learning is a teaching methodology that utilises physical objects as tools for learning. The use of physical or digital objects allows the learner to engage the brain, hands and heart in the subject matter to facilitate critical thinking. ‘OBL supports active participation through aisthesis (Bleakley, 1999) and embodied learning (Chatterjee et al., 2016);…
Reflection on Reading: Tactile Augmentation: A multimethod for capturing experiential knowledge https://intellectdiscover.com/docserver/fulltext/crre/6/1/crre.6.1.57_1.pdf?expires=1676295078&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=3C25D2361E963B1545DEB2897B42E3C7 ‘Using thinking aloud accounts, it is thought to be possible to track the cognitive processes of an individual during an activity, as the method provides content-rich information about, for example, solving a design task. In our case, thinking aloud accounts were combined with…
Our task before the session was to read the ‘Learning outcomes and assessment criteria in art and design. What’s the recurring problem?’ by Allen Davies. Reflection -WRITE REFLECTION HERE! As an icebreaker, we were asked in our tutor groups to select a quote from the selection provided by the session leaders. Our group decided on…
Our first session was an online introduction to our tutor groups. We were each asked to create 5 slides to introduce ourselves and our teaching background. See my slides below: In addition to the slides, we were asked to find an image, article about ‘pedagogy’. I chose an article from the Spark Journal; Arboreal pedagogy:…
This is the beginning of my PGCert journey. I am a lecturer in Construction Technology, Live Build and Making Projects on the BA Interior and Spatial Design course at Camberwell. Outside of teaching I work as an architect and project manager for a social enterprise MATT+FIONA which seeks to give young people the opportunity to…