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Ethical Action Plan Draft 1 Name of practitioner-researcher: Beth Collins What is your project focus?Co-designing a technical sample library with neurodivergent students to create a more inclusive learning resource. What are you going to read about?– Transformative pedagogy- Social justice What action are … Continue reading
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Intervention Reflection
Given the statistic that approximately 15-20% of the worldwide population is neurodivergent (Doyle, 2020 in Le Cunff et al. 2023), along with the data from the UAL Equality, Diversity and Inclusion report from 2022/23, in which 15% of students declared … Continue reading
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Blog Post 3: Race
BAME awarding gap According to the UAL Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Annual report 2021/22, The Attainment Gap for 2021/22, also known as The Awarding Gap, showed that “the gap between the highest attainment (White students) and the lowest attainment (Other … Continue reading
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Blog Post 2: Faith
In the UK, the educational calendar is catered towards the Christian Calendar, with timetabled breaks coinciding with events such as Easter and Christmas. According to the 2021 census, 46% of the UK population identified as Christian (Zayed, 2024), compared to … Continue reading
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Blog post 1: Disability
‘Intersectionality’ was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in a 1989 essay focussing on the discrimination of Black Women. The term was introduced to address how “the interconnected nature of social categorisations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems … Continue reading
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Intervention Outline
Diversifying the Stitch Sample Library Context: Currently, the variety of samples in the Stitch Workshop at Chelsea is being expanded. This resource is used in inductions and workshops to refer to and inspire students, as well as to access when … Continue reading
Blog post 2: Reflection on ‘On the spectrum within art and design academic practice’.
We were asked to choose a piece of reading for Workshop 2. I chose: Damiani, Luca M (2018), ‘On the spectrum within art and design academic practice’, Spark: UAL Creative Teaching and Learning Journal, 3:1, pp. 16-25. I have recently … Continue reading
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Blog post 4: response to “Towards a vital pedagogy: Learning from anti-ableist practice in art education” by Claire Penketh
“Towards a vital pedagogy: Learning from anti-ableist practice in art education” details a methodological approach of using “storyboards as a graphic method for cripping the curriculum”. In this study, PGCE students were asked “to investigate taken for granted notions regarding … Continue reading
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Blog post 3: Reflection on demonstration choices
This blog post will further reflect on the feedback I received from an observation of my workshop on fabric manipulation, where I used the camera to demonstrate. Upon reflection, I decided to change my approach for the next workshop. During … Continue reading
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Case Study 2: Planning and teaching for effective learning
Contextual Background BA Textile Design students are introduced to Adobe Illustrator at different points, depending on their chosen specialism chosen out of Weave, Print, Stitch, or Knit. Currently, Stitch students are inducted in 3rd year, resulting in insufficient time to … Continue reading
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