Author Archives: Sean-henry Fitzsimons
Retention and attainment in the disciplines: Art and Design
Terry Finnigan, London College of Fashion and Aisha Richards, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London Retention and attainment in the disciplines: Art and Design Finnigan and Richards explore a deep dive into the inclusive practices of multiple sources … Continue reading
Whiteness: Unconscious bias – Josephine Kwhali
Whiteness: Unconscious bias – Josephine Kwhali Kwhali demonstrates a strong profile in providing a lived experience of racism and growing up since the age of four, what was worrying was this issue we are still facing in today’s university landscape … Continue reading
Faith
Technically speaking, faith doesn’t come into my current practice. I work on a student skill-based front, normally conversations around what I teach, are solely about the subject rather than any topics within the course or outside of the course. The … Continue reading
Student send out on my Aretfact
I sent this through announcements on Moodle to our knit students. You can also check out the pallet as well, and add to it if you wish to do so. Hello Students, I am working on a proposal for my … Continue reading
Mistaken Identities
Kwame Anthony Appiah – The Reith Lectures BBC Iplayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b07z43ds At first, I found this to be slightly long-winded, but by the end, I realised the introduction was Appiah’s positionality and how they as a person has developed and lead … Continue reading
Cultivated learning Artefact proposal
Cultivated learning This aspect of my practice is around identity in craft knit and its enriched history, with the prospect of modern teaching in Higher Education settings. I have named it cultivated learning as I am the seed sewer, the … Continue reading
Artefact and peer responses
An email, that I sent out to 17 members of my colleagues and peers with in the materials and product department at LCF. Hello Colleagues, As you may know, I am currently just passing the halfway point of my PGcert, … Continue reading
The beginning of faith
http://www.tariqmodood.com/uploads/1/2/3/9/12392325/6379_lfhe_stimulus_paper_-_modood_calhoun_32pp.pdf Multiculturalism pages 9-10 What I see in multiculturalism is sectarianism, maybe because of my positionality in growing up in a war-torn pre and post-good Friday agreement of Northern Ireland. I still pick up on the everyday sectarianism in micro … Continue reading
Disability
Impairments in creative education are very apparent in my localised teaching environment, especially if I was to reflect on the days of my own student adventures and tackling my own dyslexia and building upon an ‘academic’ written format to communicate … Continue reading
Deaf-accessibility for spoonies: lessons fromtouring Eve and Mary Are Having Coffee whilechronically ill
Khairani Barokka (Okka) What I received from this reading was an understanding of awareness around hosting or building a production, suffice to say the hardship that Barokka endured was disregarded by organisers and that their chronic illness was subjected to … Continue reading