Category: Rambling
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IP Preliminary thoughts
Starting this unit, two main factors jumped out to me: first, the large amount of pre-reading and, second, my slight concern about how the unit will be addressed. The first concern regarding the reading is once again ‘how am i going to manage this with my preexisting work load? Will every week look like this?’…
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Reflecting on Environmentalism in teaching
During our initial TTP timeline session, I realized I had neglected to add a post-it regarding environmental pledges made by UAL, a decision which greatly affected my course. My course is a technical sculpture course that trains people for multiple industries, but namely the hugely wasteful film industry. Overall film productions have been massively wasteful,…
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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…