Author: Phoebe Stringer
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Reflections on Required Reading Part 4
I found this a very personally pertinent and interesting read as somebody who teaches a technical (or should I say Sloyd) subject like Techincal Arts (as the name implies it’s a technical skill-oriented course). I’ve always been technically minded and focused both as a teacher and as a student, as a student I longed to…
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1st Micro teaching reflections
I started my session with my group, John, James, Grace, Jules and Gwen by desperately trying to keep my ball of oil-based ‘monster clay’ warm for my demonstration. I decided to demonstrate a taste of a class I give to the first-year students on tech arts, ‘Foundations of Sculpture and Sculpting the Face’ in which…
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PGcert Case Study 1
Contextual Background (c.50 words): Recently I ran into an issue within my CCP unit, due to the natural ebb and flow of university calendars a few key dates had been moved around. While confirming these final dates my dyscalculia became an issue, students would quickly ask if I knew the new dates but I would…
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Confucius vs Plato in cultural approaches to education and the subsequent outcomes;
As a teacher within the UAL and generally, as somebody born and raised in central London, I interact and teach with a lot of young Chinese and Western students. Within our western culture, we often point out the educational differences between the Chinese and western education systems, or to put it simply, why Chinese students…
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Reflections on Required Reading Part 3
Reflections on ‘On the spectrum within art and design academic practice’ Now this one really spoke to me! As an autistic myself I felt immediately drawn to this text, especially the somewhat abstract accompanying graphs and visuals. The whole text reminded me of a camp joke my friends and I would make growing up, if…
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Reflections on Required Reading Part 2
Based on my own lived experiences of art education I was immediately drawn to this text more so than the other available options, “the design critique and the moral goods of studio pedagogy” jumped out at me. The discussion around disciplinary differences is the most salient to me, as I’ve been taught and taught in,…
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Reflections on Required Reading Part 1
Immediately engaging with the text ‘An a/r/tographic métissage: Storying the self as pedagogic practice’ I found myself enjoying the invoking visuals of ‘threadscape’, imagining all the threads being woven and pulled apart to be rejoined into new colours. I’ve embroidered for many years in my fine art practice, playing with the limits of the threads…
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Preliminary Thoughts
How am I going to teach all these alligators? My initial concerns and feelings were all time-based, how will I manage my time whilst still having a good quality of life? after engaging with the first piece of required reading my more immediate concern is reading hefty artspeak text walls again. I thought those days…
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Welcome to Alligator Educational Reflections
Welcome! I’m Phoebe Stringer and I teach at Wimbledon on the Technical Arts and Special effects course at UAL.