Reflective writing
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(In)Effective Career Development Among Technicians
As a technician in printmaking, students often remind me ‘how lucky I must feel to have a job like this’ which indicates they perceive technicians as active creative practitioners. And, indeed, technicians are much more than specialist on a craft, often we are artist with a focus on a craft, however this aspect of the…
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Critical Pedagogy to Ignite Change
“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.” (Audre Lorde: New York, 1980s) This statement specially resonates with me for I used a similar concept in my masters’ thesis ‘Bread, Print and Freedom’, which discussed anarcho-collective practices in the printmaking workshop and which was presented at IMPACT 12, an international…
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Letting learn: to be or to become
As someone who has infiltrated HE from a practitioner pathway rather than that of an educator or lecturer, I have seen in the past 6 years that most successful students are those who set base in the workshop. And far from overstating my influence in their learning process, I have seen how inhabiting a space,…
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Social Justice in a Higher Education System that Gets you in Debt
If the goal of social justice, specifically in Higher Education is to create an environment that provides equal opportunities and resources for all students and staff despite their race, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation or any other diversity factor, why does the university experience differs so much from student to student? Despite all the…
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