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Contextual Background  The Access and Progression Widening Participation autumn course at CSM supported students aiming for BA Fashion, Textiles, or Jewellery. Many juggled part-time work, caring duties, or lacked confidence. Some couldn’t study art and design subjects due to cultural … Continue reading →

Responding to Nicholas Addisons, Doubting Learning Outcomes in Higher Education Contexts: from Performativity towards Emergence and negotiation. This is a difficult one, as much as I believe we need learning outcomes for parity and learning and teaching and guidelines for … Continue reading →

The paper written by Karen Harris, Embracing the Silence: Introverted learning and the online classroom was another piece of writing that resinated with me personally and my learning and teaching practices. I have always struggled in a classroom situation where … Continue reading →

I was drawn to reading the paper: On the spectrum within art and design academic practice: As someone with dyslexia and ADHD, my journey through education has been shaped by constant tension between creativity and traditional academic expectations. Reading, writing, … Continue reading →

Encouraging 360° Thinking in Fashion Design Micro Teaching Lesson Plan: 20 minutes: 1pm: (for the purposes of this micro teaching where I couldn’t ask students to prepare) Ask the students to find 4 pieces of paper (can be newspaper, brow … Continue reading →

I chose to read this paper by JUDY WILLCOCKS and KIERAN MAHON from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. I worked with Judy when CSM first moved to Kings Cross on how to bring schools and local communities … Continue reading →