Thought I’d treat myself to some holiday reading to prepare myself for unit1… I picked 5 titles from the handbook to get going.
Advance HE (2023) Associate Fellowship. Available at: https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/fellowship/associate-fellowship (Accessed: 25 July 2023).
Callender, J. (2005) ‘The Role of Aesthetic Judgments in Psychotherapy’, in Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 12(4), pp.283-295. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2006.0019
Curry, P. (2017) ‘The Enchantment of Learning and ‘The Fate of our Times’. In Voss, A. and Wilson, S. (eds.) Re-Enchanting the Academy. Seattle: Rubedo Press, pp.33-51. Available at: http://www.patrickcurry.co.uk/papers/The%20Enchantment%20of%20Learning%20(print%20version).pdf (Accessed: 11 November 2022).
Dall’Alba, G. (2005). ‘Improving teaching: Enhancing ways of being university teachers,’ in Higher Education Research & Development, 24 (4), pp.361–372. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360500284771
Patience, A. (2008) ‘The Art of Loving in the Classroom: A Defence of Affective Pedagogy’, in Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 33(2), pp.55-67. Available at: https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol33/iss2/4/ (Accessed: 11 November 2022)
What a treat, concerned about returning to study having been working for the last 25 years I was really worried that my brain wouldn’t work but the biggest challenge I discovered was how to involve my very curious 2 year old.
As a parent, I limit screen time and quickly realised that if I was seen attached to my screen then that would be a negative impact on our home time. This led me to dusting off an old lever arch file and heading for the printer. I wondered about the impact that it would have on my carbon footprint and decided that I would talk to some of the MA Global students that had developed a game and see if we could come up with a figure for the record. Having committed in my head not to buy anything new for the course I failed miserably as I desperately needed a highlighter but was happy because after some searching on foot I was able to buy some BCorp recycled plastic ones.
At parents evening my daughters headteacher said it was time to start scaffolding her language, so i thought what better way than to read aloud these papers and draw some of the words that came up, we had a great time. I highlighted words that i needed to look up and actually used a dictionary. After bedtime, I went back to a paper and read it through making notes, observations and questions to research. Unsure what to do with these, i thought i’d ask my tutor whether each should have a note on this blog or should they be documented in moodle and added it to my to do list.
I was particularly interested in Patrick Curry’s (2017) ‘The Enchantment of Learning and ‘The Fate of our Times’. To challenge myself I requested more of his work from the library and having done a little research decided that I would like to discuss in more detail some of his theories as they resonated with me, having spent much of my career developing enchanted commercial / educational spaces with brands like Harry Potter. We have had some enjoyable communication and I am looking forward to interviewing him at the end of January. That reminds me am I allowed to invite him to UAL to have coffee… I looked in the handbook but will ask I think… I’ll put it on the to do list!… and should I be documenting everything here because there were some fabulous citations which gave me permission to tickle Tolkien, renew my acquaintance with Seamus Heaney who I then bumped into at the NPG quite by accident and chartered new territory with John Updike… so much delight!
