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Final ARP Presentation
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Reflection and proposal ideas on classroom & off-site bonding experiences
Some of the following workshops, events and excursions I have identified as “bonding experiences”, those that were and can be examples of fertile grounds for forming friendships. I am using this post to identify what has been done already, what needs to be re-enforced or re-invented in the forth-coming academic year when I am to…
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Giving & Receiving – the core of friendship
Reflection on a Communication Workshop I organised with the actor and theatre director, Alexander J. Gifford, with then Year 3 students on 7th March 2023. Although the initial task of the workshop was to introduce the students with the Learning Outcome “Communication”, I decided to come from a ‘rear’ angle and focus on different ways…
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Promoting Critical Intercultural Dialogue: a language studies perspective
Victoria Odeniyi and Paola Giorgis in conversation for UAL Decolonising Arts Institute. “Cultural Identity – race and ethnicity and the ways they intersect with other identities such as language, gender, sexuality, socio-economic background, nationality and so forth” We always think of diversity visually. We are how we look, we are how we sound, we are…
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Redesigning the Classroom
e-Journals PortalMaverick Television (Producer), & . (, 2005). Redesigning the Classroom. [Video/DVD] Teachers TV/UK Department of Education. Retrieved from https://video-alexanderstreet-com.arts.idm.oclc.org/watch/redesigning-the-classroom?context=channel:all-change (accessed 13 NOV 2023) The episode shows the transformation of a Year 2 classroom at Four Acres Primary School in Bristol with the aim to improve the school environment. Rearranging the position of the focal…
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Understanding and applying Thematic Analysis to my survey
Thematic Analysis (TA) is an umbrella term for a set of approaches for analysing qualitative data that share a focus on developing themes (patterns of meaning) (kako se vec zovu). It is a suitable tool for analyzing people’s views and opinions, behaviours or practices and individual experiences, which was the aim of the survey I…
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Survey says.
Date of Survey: 4-8th Dec 2023Total number of students: 80(Year 1: 19 / Year 2: 28 / Year 3: 32 + Year 4 (study abroad): 1)Sample taken: 15(Year 1: 5 / Year 2: 5 / Year 3: 5) Q1. qualitative (recurring themes)Do you feel this is ‘your’ classroom? Do you feel a sense of belonging…
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Have we lost the skill of making friends?
Reflection on the podcast Diary with a CEO with guest Simon Sinek Simon Sinek is an ethnographer, motivation speaker, communications expert often quoted in design thinking workshops – his questioning of ‘WHY’ something is being done, is what often motivates students to dig deeper into their projects. In this podcast, his speaks about FRIENDSHIP. With…