(Photo credit: Isaac James Creative. AAMC Foundation) An email has this banner image across the top. What are you likely to think? If you are me, you recognize “my world.” A lecture hall, filled with name-tagged, slightly bored people. What
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Karen J Leader (Art History class at Mount Holyoke) The photograph reproduced above drives me bonkers. Every time I see it, I have a conniption. Why, you might ask. It seems innocuous; playful and inoffensive. A cute youngish looking
Highly Personal Exceptional Visions…
Karen J Leader I admit to being unusually disarmed by the pairing of a film still of the young and brilliant John Berger (1926-2017) with a distinctly unflattering photo of the then president-elect of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
AHHE New Article Jacob’s Ladder:The Comprehensive Exam by Sara Scott Shields
Like climbing Jacob’s ladder: An art-based exploration of the comprehensive exam process Sara Scott Shields Department of Art Education, Florida State University, USA “And he [Jacob] dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the
Arts and Humanities in HE New Issue: Meeting the Challenge
Meeting the challenges: This issue http://ahh.sagepub.com/content/current This issue starts with two examples of discipline-boundary-crossing materialculture projects: ‘Ethnography by design: On goals and mediating artefacts’(Fabian Segelstrom and Stefan Holmlid, pp. 134–149) and ‘Toward a pedagogy for faculty and student co-responsibility in
HEA Embedding equality and diversity in the curriculum: an art and design practitioner’s guide
Embedding equality and diversity in the curriculum: an art and design practitioner’s guide 1. Setting the scene 3 This is a practical guide to issues of equality and diversity in the curriculum specifically related to the art,
An arts and cultural education Polylogue: Reflections
Earlier, we published Pat’s reflections on Days 1 & 2 and Days 3 & 4 of AN ARTS AND CULTURAL EDUCATION POLYLOGUE Here we have her post conference reflections – on networking and “reporting back” First posted on May 22, 2015 by pat thomson
An arts and cultural education Polylogue: Days 3 & 4 by Pat Thomson
conference day three Posted on May 20, 2015by pat thomson Four snapshots from the conference… (1) One of the things we’ve been presented with at the conference is a heuristic for thinking about quality in arts education. This is a
An arts and cultural education Polylogue diary -1&2
From Pat Thomson patter research education, academic writing, public engagement, funding, other eccentricities. conference evening one From posts posted on May 18, 2015 by pat thomson I’ve come to Bavaria to take part in something called a ‘Polylogue’. Like a dialogue but
Screening – Mirrors to Windows: the Artist as Woman 5th June 2015, 18:00 London College of Fashion
London College of Fashion Screening, 5th June Mirrors to Windows: the Artist as Woman is a documentary film by Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director, Susan Steinberg. The film takes you on an intimate but fast-paced journey into the lives of three