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Research Method and Data Gathering: Online Teams interview with a tutor working in the UAL drawing department
As part of my research, I asked one of the tutors from the UAL drawing team for a chat and an opportunity to ask them some questions related to my ARP around methods teaching drawing In your experience as a … Continue reading
Blog Post 8: Why Drawing Matters
Anita Taylor discusses in Why Drawing Matters the importance and vitality that drawing holds in her own practice as a teacher and maker. Taylor tells of how drawing operates as a fast track, haptic way to access one’s internal world through … Continue reading
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Blog Post 7: ‘Taking a line for a walk’: On improvisatory drawing by Ricardo Nemirovsky and Tam Dibley
Is an article that has been useful to think about my experimental drawing intervention. How do we access improvisation, and can such a thing as a truly free experience or drawing exist, or is every drawing and moment tied to … Continue reading
Blog Post 6: Citation as political in Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
This text by Sara Ahmed feels like such an important and succinct text that uncovers the transparency of the hierarchical racism prevalent within our educational system through the lenses of academic writing: “A citational chain is created around theory: you … Continue reading
Blog Post 5: Intervention Plan and Rationale
Rationale for my ARP As mentioned, at the start of this academic year, I unexpectedly lost my teaching hours on CCW Foundation due to the merging of CSM and CCW Foundation and the cutting of all staff outside of the … Continue reading
Blog Post 4: Research Methods
What method(s) are you using to explore the context/issue? I will be using 3 different research methods for 4 outcomes or results: Colleague interview and auto recorded responses The interview will be with a former colleague teaching as a drawing … Continue reading
Participant-facing documents
Here is the consent form template that I sent out and had signed by my 3 students. These are stored in a secure physical and digital location. are the consent form that were read and signed by each student Information … Continue reading
Blog Post 3: Good Autoethnography as described by Tony E. Adams, Andrew F. Herrmann and what I think it might mean
The Auto- “The “auto-” of autoethnography relates to one-self, an author’s subjectivity, their lived experience. For manuscripts to do/use autoethnography, we expect the author to share and be self-reflexive about their decisions and experiences. We expect the author’s experience to … Continue reading
Ethical Plan
What is your project focus? An enquiry into different methods of teaching drawing and painting, and the hierarchies associated with them. I want to find out if an embodied way of teaching and learning is a way to navigate certain hierarchical structures … Continue reading