At the moment I am not sure as to what exactly I want to focus on. I think it will be on one of the following areas:
Accessibility and language with a focus on how projects can be communicated more clearly for students, perhaps with a workshop discussion breaking down specific art terminology in a clear way for students.
I have also been considering the learning from workshops 1 and 2 and the discussions around accessibility for disabled students. How could we improve accessibility for these students at UAL and what ways could we increase student and staff awareness of the barriers that students with disabilities face. This could result in a workshop where students consider how there work could be more accessible for students with disabilities.
I have come across the term “empathy gap” and this is something that I would be interesting in working with further. Empathy feels like a key ingredient as a teacher, learner and human being. I would like to try to help students access empathy with one another as this could lead to more awareness and connection with one another and more interesting, supportive and challenging work and discussions. How could an empathy workshop take form? What would a workshop for this look like (not like the privilege walk…) Perhaps students could be asked to make a positionally statement.
Provisional Bibliography:
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Choudrey, S, Inclusivity – Supporting BAME Trans People [Online]. Gender Identity Research & Education Society, page 21:
Available at: https://www.gires.org.uk/inclusivity-supporting-bame-trans-people/
ziz, Razia, Feminism and the challenge of racism: Deviance or Difference. Black British Feminism: A Reader
Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GdSqaz6NBMIC&pg=PA70&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
Siting Sound: Redistributing the Senses in Christine Sun Kim, Michael Davidson
Available at: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/jlcds.2021.16
Baumard, Phillipe, Tacit knowledge in organizations (London, Sage Publications), 1999
Decolonising Language and the Multilingual University, University of the Arts London, 9th March: available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oltALaTbQM
Louise Hill and Maria Hussain, Creating a ‘sense of belonging’ for international students through intercultural Personal Tutoring: https://www.ukat.ac.uk/community/ukat-blog/posts/2021/february/creating-a-sense-of-belonging-for-international-students-through-intercultural-personal-tutoring, accessed 2 March 2023
Lev Vygotsky, Thought and Language, MIT Press, 1986
Fox Eades, J. (2015) ‘Silence and stillness in the classroom’. Available at: https://jennyfoxeades.com/2015/02/12/silence-and-stillness-in-the-classroom/