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Tell Us About It
Diverse Student Voices in Creative Learning in Practice
Terry FinniganUniversity of the Arts London
Student Voices in Art and Design
• Find out more about the student project
• Experience some examples of the students work
• Feedback thoughts and key points
• Consider how this student work can be a catalyst for change within the institution
Students from diverse backgrounds
• High achieving students
• Variety of diverse backgrounds
• Focus on the overall learning experience
Reflections on learning
• What helped you learn?
• What were the challenges you faced and how did you overcome them?
• Can you share any tips or strategies for new students?
What helped you learn?
• Staff encouragement to explore identity through the work
• Taking risks and experimenting
• Working across subject areas
• Working in collaboration with others
• Individual determination
Not another report….
• Exhibitions
• Staff and student workshops
• University website: Common place
• Archive: pedagogic research base
Visual and tactile experience
• Triggers discussions around difference and identity
• Encourages staff to reflect on their pedagogy
• Produces dialogues on the mutability of meaning
Co-creating change
Student voice projects are about challenging the academy to allow active participation from a wide range of communities and individuals who will help to redefine the parameters of higher education itself
Stuart 2000
Institutional change and the archive
• Race ethnicity degree attainment task group
• Common Place pre-entry website
• Diversity module on PG Cert at CLTAD
• Shades of Noir website
Your Wise Words
• Have a look at the mini exhibition of the student work around the room
• Choose one piece and in pairs discuss it and reflect on what it says and how it has been produced
• Feedback to the group
References
• Stuart,M. (2000)Beyond Rhetoric: Reclaiming a Radical Agenda for Active
Participation in Higher Education. Thomson Ed. Stretching the Academy: The politics and Practice of Widening Participation in Higher Education. Leicester. NIACE
• Frederick, P. and James, M. (2007) Heritage Rocks: Principles and best practices of effective intercultural teaching and learning in D. Robertson and L. Nilson(eds) To improve the Academy. Mass: Anchor Publishing
• Tell Us About It: http://www.arts.ac.uk/clipcetl-tellusaboutitpublication.htm Accessed on 28/11/11
• Finnigan T. (2009) Tell Us About It: Diverse student voices in creative practice. ADCHE 8(2) pp. 135-150
References
• http://commonplace.arts.ac.uk/
• http://www.arts.ac.uk/cltad/shadesofnoir/
• http://issuu.com/obiecampbell/docs/tellusabout_obiecampbell