“To the university, I’ll steal, and there I’ll steal”- Harney & Moten Revisited

La dat: Saturday 26th October 2021 THE ONLY POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIP TO THE UNIVERSITY TODAY IS A CRIMINAL ONE… “To the university, I’ll steal, and there I’ll steal” I thought that it would be interesting to revisit the Harney and Moten reading, that I first encountered during the Teaching & Learning Unit on the PGCERT. The …

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Crimson O’Shea During the presentation, I enjoyed your explanation of how colour could be used emotively within fashion design. I thought it was a good way to look speculatively at how this is viewed, experimented with within other aspects of art and design. The painting by Chris Ofili although it was demonstrably used to denote …

No Beginning No End

Post Session Reflections Unit Presentations -Introductory 5 min First Presentation- 20 min Final Micro- Presentation + ( 10 min Feedback) Research / knowledge can not be thought of monolithically as relying on type of methodology which belong speculatively to the western cannon. The book Practise -led Research, Research – led Practice in the Creative Arts …

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https://francesross.myblog.arts.ac.uk/ I think it’s very interesting that you have highlighted that the top key three factors that dictate the amount of earnings/ earning potential is based on   I) how well and individual does their job  II) level of difficulty  I think that a lot has to be attributed not only to the historical attribution of …

Post- Session Reflection

Micro- Teach -20 min The Micro – Teach I received some invaluable feedback about my presentation, which I will be definitely utilising during my own sessions, also reading my other peers blogs it has interesting reading about their experiences, their own teaching practises it has been quite useful to see different methods and techniques that …

Micro -Teach ObjectBased Learning

17/03/21 I Started of the session with an icebreaker because I felt knowing that the opportunity to get to each other aside from the five-minute presentation it would be a nice way to start of the session as well as giving me the time to settle into the role and settle my nerves. I started …

Post – Session Reflection Performing to an invisible Audience- Micro- Teach

As we edge closer to the presentations, I feel a sense of trepidation. I’m not naturally a presenter, public speaker. The micro-teach made me consider teaching as a whole because a good percentage of it is public speaking and interacting with students within this format so how does one operate within this sphere if you …

Preforming to an invisible Audience !!

Performing with an invisible audience I watched the performing to an invisible audience video, the speaker was talking about her experience as a barrister. I understood the importance of the relationship, and how this relates to teaching within a classroom, how this experience has led her to a transition professionally thus teaching, singers and actors …

Object-Based Learning – An Introduction

During my SON/ TW session I had the opportunity to discuss the importance of Object-Based Learning. As part of the task, we were given a video to look at and, teachers within the video the speaker gave the teachers a tea break. I thought about how Tea, the universal symbol synonymous within many cultures is …

Inferno- Dante Alighieri

Post – Session Reflection I’m currently reading Dante’s Inferno and although the book is heavy with theological and philosophical allegory. The premise of the book focuses on Dante who has lost his way, in the forested wilderness and ultimately is trying to find his way to truth and God, through his journey through hell and …

AFFECTIVE PEDAGOGY

Australian Journal of Teacher Education: Volume 33/ Issue 2, Article 4, The Art of Loving in the classroom: A Defence of the Affective Pedagogy, Alan Patience – Sophia University, Tokyo, 2008 This reading on Affective Pedagogy made me think about not only teacher-student relationships but I thought about whether during my academic experiences the idea, …

all about love; New visions – bell hooks

Everyone wants to know more about love. We want to know what it means to love, what we can do in our everyday lives to love and be loved. We want to know how to seduce those among us who remain wedded to lovelessness and open the door to their hearts to let love enter. …

Undercommons within the Undercommons:

The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study Post-session reflection: Divine Beauty: “The Well-Baked Man” and the Aesthetics of Race David S. Ramsey I was reading about the new film Judas and the black Messiah starring Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stansfield directed by: Shaka King   After reading Jack Halberstam opening essay chapter: Moten& Harney made me …

The UNIVERSITY & the UNDERCOMMONS Stefano HARNEY & Fred MOTEN The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study

(Wivenhoe; New York; Port Watson: Minor Compositions, 2013) THE ONLY POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIPTO THE UNIVERSITY TODAYIS A CRIMINAL ONE… “To the university, I’ll steal, and there I’ll steal” The term “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”, comes to mind when reading the undercommons. It was interesting looking at who Harney&Molten define as the …

Post – Session Reflection

‘Playful measurement’ with criteria and band descriptors“ Blog Assessment Criteria It was really beneficial looking at the marking criteria for the teaching and learning unit in particular reference to the blogs. The discussions surrounding marking made me think about that idea of play again. Although the blogs its purpose is for reflection it’s also very …

Post- Session Reflection

Vilhauer, Gadamer and Ethics of Play Reading: “Understanding Art: The play of Work and Spectator in Monica Vilhauers Gadamers Ethics of play: Hermeneutics Reflecting on Vilhauer and Gadamers text on ethics it was interesting to observe the idea of play at (Virtual) close proximity. During the tutorials we were assigned into groups. During the breakout …

Vilhauer, Gadamer and Ethics of Play

Reading: “Understanding Art: The play of Work and Spectator in Monica Vilhauers Gadamer’s Ethics of Play: Hermeneutics.    To begin with my interaction with the text made me think of the film/ book The Witches by Roald Dahl in the beginning of the film where the narrator talks about the painting and the figure within …

What Is My Teaching Practice ???

During the first lecture we had to present a 5min presentation, look at 1-2 teaching practices, as well introduce ourselves to the group and respectively speak about our academic as well as professional experience. In comparison to my peers, when it comes teaching as well professional experience I’m not as experienced. I did at first …