UAL Religion and Belief Champions Forum How could you apply the resources to your own teaching practice? Exploring the UAL Religion and Belief Champions Forum page led me to remember how my religion, being visibly muslim intersected with my higher education experience. As someone who doesn’t drink within a culture that places great importance on networking in pubs was… Continue reading Blogging task 2: UAL Religion and Belief Champions Forum
Blogging task 2: Religion, Belief and Faith identities UAL website
Religion, Belief and Faith Identities in Learning and Teaching UAL – (Website now inaccessible) What does diversity of religion and belief mean for the way we teach and support students at UAL? Consider how we address religion, belief, and faith identities through teaching, learning and research at UAL Looking at the Art and Design research… Continue reading Blogging task 2: Religion, Belief and Faith identities UAL website
Blogging task 2: Higher power: Religion, Faith, Spirituality and Belief
Interview with Saffron Mustafa The interview was very insightful in sharing the experience of how religion can influence and intersect with how people decide to live their life as well as the reactions they receive from other people, whether that is to be welcomed or shunned. Mustafa highlights the difficulty or internal conflict someone can… Continue reading Blogging task 2: Higher power: Religion, Faith, Spirituality and Belief
Blogging task 1: Disabled People: The Voice of Many
Disabled people have an ally problem – Imani Barbarin, Eastern University, US. The article was a great insight into the ways that people try to be good allies but unintentionally can cause more harm than good. Imani Barbarin writes from the perspective of a black women with Cerebral Palsy and briefly talks about her experience… Continue reading Blogging task 1: Disabled People: The Voice of Many
Blogging task 1: Deaf-accessibility for Spoonies: Lessons from touring Eve and Mary Are Having Coffee while chronically ill
Spoonies: People who live with chronic pain and subscribe to spoon theory may refer to themselves as “spoonies… it’s a way for anyone who lives with chronic pain to explain the way they ration their energy based on their illness.” People with chronic pain start each day with a set number of proverbial spoons, each… Continue reading Blogging task 1: Deaf-accessibility for Spoonies: Lessons from touring Eve and Mary Are Having Coffee while chronically ill
Blogging Task 1: #DisabilityTooWhite
Confronting the Whitewashing Of Disability: Interview with #DisabilityTooWhite Creator Vilissa Thompson #DisabilityTooWhite is a hashtag started by disability activist and blogger, Vilissa Thompson. It led to discussions within the disability community regarding the media’s visibility and the lack of representation for disabled people of colour. The interview touched on many interesting points, some unfortunately weren’t… Continue reading Blogging Task 1: #DisabilityTooWhite
Blogging Task 1: UAL Disability Service Webpages
The webpage details all the support UAL has to offer to students with disabilities, in line with the social model of disability to work towards removing disabling barriers within education. They provide advice and support before you begin your course and at any stage of your student journey as well as highlighting all the different… Continue reading Blogging Task 1: UAL Disability Service Webpages
Inclusive Practice Unit
Blogging Task 1: Disability Lets listen with our eyes and not just our ears” (A Selby Film, 2012) As the start of the film, you are introduced with a morning routine of the main character. There is a subtle focus on sound which increases when you notice her crouch on a busy road and record… Continue reading Inclusive Practice Unit
Race and the Neoliberal University
Race and the Neoliberal University: Lessons From the Public University by John Holmwood There is less public funding invested in higher education, a reduction of teaching support and a decline in the quality of learning. Higher education as a social right: HE has shifted, become more privatised – it is seen less as a social right and… Continue reading Race and the Neoliberal University
Adaptation of the creative classroom
In this week’s session, we discussed the values within Art and Design education and how we could implement these to produce a conducive and encouraging environment for students. We also discussed the idea of sustainability within the broader contexts that can be applied further than conversations around climate change. As a group we came up… Continue reading Adaptation of the creative classroom