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(1,499) The intervention I have designed is a session called ‘Material Conversations’. The session aims to create an opportunity for students to discuss their backgrounds through textiles, reflecting on how they could bring these elements into their practice, build connections and affirm their classmates. It would also make staff more aware of students’ backgrounds and areas of interest so …
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Material Conversations Session Notes for facilitators This intervention is a one-off workshop designed to open up dialog around identity, particularly race and belief. To be delivered to groups of maximum 15 students within their first year of a Textiles degree. The session would be effective as part of the Better Lives unit as this unit is based around students considering their practice in relation to the wider world and establishing how they …
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(SoN) is an independent programme based around enacting social justice in the university and beyond. Through many streams of intervention, dialog, case studies the programme provides resources and opportunities for critical reflection and action around racism and social justice for both staff and students in every part of the university. How could I apply the …
(UCU – University and College Union, 2016) In this Video Josephine Kwhali expresses her frustration with the term ‘Unconscious Bias’ I’m reminded of a talk given by Shirley Ann Tate, ‘Whiteliness and institutional racism: Hiding behind unconscious bias’, in which she unpacks the term ‘unconscious bias’. Seeing the word ‘unconscious’ as a way to excuse …
(Finnigan and Richards, 2016) This paper takes, as It’s starting point, the conclusions of a 2014 Higher Education Academy report; Undergraduate Retention and Attainment Across the Disciplines (Woodfield, 2014). Namely that; ‘there is a need for better understanding of how some groups of students experience different disciplines and how their background characteristics interact with a …
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(Hahn Tapper, 2013) This article uses examples from a ‘US-based intergroup educational organisation running conflict transformation programs since 2005’(Tapper, 2013 p.411) to explore theoretical underpinnings and approaches to Social Justice Education. I found it really interesting, having been exploring these theories since beginning the PG Cert (and usually considering their application through small interventions in …
Today I presented my intervention idea to two of my peers in a feedback session. The session was useful and my classmates Jason and Juliet were positive about my idea. Juliette hi-lighted the importance of the teacher or session leader participating themselves to help clarify the expectations for the rest of the group. Jason liked …
Paper 1: ‘We don’t do God’? the changing nature of public religion. By Professor Tariq Modood This paper outlines ‘the changing nature of of public religion and secularism’,(Calhoun and Modood, 2015) hi-lighting the different approaches to and extents of secularism across Europe. I was particularly interested in the section entitled ‘Changes in religious demography’. While …
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BBC Reith Lecture, 2016 In the first Reith Lecture of 2016 ‘Creed’ Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah explores religion and its role in identity. Appiah challenges the notion that we can only understand religion through an idea of belief and adherence based on religious texts. This seems reductive when he outlines the role of practice and …
(UAL website) ‘what does diversity of religion and belief mean for the way we teach and support students at UAL?’ I reflected on this question while exploring the resources available via: https://religiousliteracy.myblog.arts.ac.uk I particularly liked: One of My Kind (OOMK), a linked zine comprising the work of women exploring faith, activism and identity. How could I apply …