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Education through art and design
Fostering a sense of belonging: - What is belonging?
- Who is able to belong in different educational communities?
- How do we know?
- What effect fo experiences of racism have on an individual's sense of belonging
Profiling Resistance:
- What aspects that prevent a sense of belonging do we want to resist?
- What does resistance look like?
- What are the implications of resistance?
- What resistant practices might be productive where you are?
Building a Coalition: - Can we agree as a community to resist together?
- What needs to happen in order for that to take place?
- How can we express our resistance in ways that bring others on board?
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This module is designed to introduce you to the cultural/ethical/social issues pertinent to learning and teaching art and design in secondary schools.
It aims to promote a critical approach to the Art and Design curriculum and encourages you to reflect on issues, attitudes and values in order that you can make reasoned and informed judgements about your teaching based on an understanding of pupil diversity and how this affects learning.
Throughout the module you are expected to engage critically with recent research, policies and initiatives, you are encouraged to reflect critically on your own experiences in education and engage with recent and relevant theories of learning and teaching as they relate to the field of art and design.
Issues and Inclusivity Aims:
•Identify, explore and analyse the significance of a pedagogic issues pertinent to art and design in secondary education;
•Recognise and value the contribution of art, craft and design to social equity and social justice for young people in a diverse society in which the rights and responsibilities of all are recognised and promoted in teaching and learning;
•Promote critical reflection on practical teaching and its relationship to the theories and policies that underpin art and design education;
•Ensure that professional, classroom practice is based on current, recent and relevant research and publication;
•Demonstrate how art and design engages with wider educational issues;
Assessment:
Demonstrate a critical understanding of, and engagement with, wider educational issues and their implications for art and design education. This comprises 2 issues, you will choose at least 1 issue from the list below while the second issue is open (although most students choose another issue from the list). It is really important that for each issue you choose you consider how it relates to art and design in secondary schools.
Anti-ableist pedagogy
Anti-Racist pedagogy
Feminist pedagogy
Social Class & Pedagogy
Queer pedagogy
Multi-lingual pedagogy
Pedagogy in the climate crisis
Pedagogy for Mental Health & Wellbeing
Post-internet / post-digital pedagogy
[Each issue will comprise visual and written elements articulated in the form of six portfolio sheets (2 issues x 6 sheets per issue – 12 sheets total). The completed assignment must equal 5,000 words (+/- 10%)]
Steps to take:
Read around the subject, reflect on experience in light of the reading, both on the current school and on any prior experience at other schools, Finally, you should complete your own independent research at your current school. - Relate, as always, to art and design in secondary schools.
Write in the first person. - What can I do to normalise.....?
Write about 2500 words for each issue.
Each needs a visual narrative, that is not illustrative but complimentary to the research and writing. The work is marked holistically.
Might be more complicated to compare and contrast issues, can just be two different 'articles' within a double page spread in a newspaper.
You may want to be wise with your time and choose one of the issues to be around your issue of politics of representation task, for which you are researching anyway in creating/ adapting a scheme of work.
Examples:
Important dates:
Peer Display of Visual Narrative for Issue 1:
Monday 11th December at 10:00am
You will need to bring in a printed copy of the visual narrative of one draft issue
(6 sheets).
Deadline for Draft Issue uploaded to Moodle:
Wednesday 3rd January at 9:30am
You need to select one of your draft issues to e-mail to your tutor for written feedback.
Final Deadline for completed assignment:
Monday 19th February at 9:30am
You will upload the completed assignment to Moodle, where it will be scanned by TurnItIn for plagiarism and assessed by tutors.
When reading through texts, here is an example framework of questions to use to get the most our of the text:
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