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TPP Further Reading – Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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,…
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# Micro-teaching Session
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);…
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TTP Further Reading – Tactile Augmentation
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…
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#2 Cohort Seminar
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…