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Conclusions & Reflections <3

• At the beginning of this process, I set my research questions. The first was: ‘What do Stage 1 Performance: Design and Practice students classify as ‘research’ at the beginning of their undergraduate degree?’ Even though I found a methodology that allowed everyone to speak, I found that the definitions of research that students gave… Continue reading Conclusions & Reflections <3

Race

I wrote the following notes in response to a few different resources I engaged with at the same time: Christina Sharpe’s book Ordinary Notes (2023); PGcert IP seminars and resources (particularly ‘Rentention and attainment in the disciplines: Art and Design’, by Finegan and Richards, on the attainment gap between black and white students; Josephine Kwhali’s… Continue reading Race

Faith

I listened to Kwame Anthony Appiah’s talk on ‘Mistaken Identity’. The main point I think he was trying to get across was that religion or faith is more of a verb i.e. a practice, rather than a noun, or a category you pick. He says this is because of two main reasons. One: you cannot… Continue reading Faith

Disability

I started off looking at Christine Sun Kim’s film on her performance practice. I love her work – it really makes me think about sound in a different way and to consider the experience of the d/Deaf or hard of hearing. While I hadn’t seen this video before, she has one called Closed Captions, which… Continue reading Disability

Reflections on non-hierarchical learning

After a tutorial with Emily, and writing the last few blogposts, I’ve become more clear that empowering students through working towards a non-hierarchical environment is really my focus as a teacher. I also had a discussion with my colleague Prof. Andrea Zimmerman, whose approach really highlights this also, I feel. We were having a discussion… Continue reading Reflections on non-hierarchical learning

Learning about facilitation

In a recent class for the performance as protest session, two students were having a heated discussion about the current war in Ukraine., sparked by artwork some other students had brought to the group tutorial. One student was coming from a perspective of being passionate about geopolitics and another being Ukrainian and arriving here again… Continue reading Learning about facilitation