Tell Us About It

Diverse Student Voices in Creative Learning in Practice

Terry FinniganUniversity of the Arts London

Student Voices in Art and Design

• Find out more about the student project

• Experience some examples of the students work

• Feedback thoughts and key points

• Consider how this student work can be a catalyst for change within the institution

Students from diverse backgrounds

• High achieving students

• Variety of diverse backgrounds

• Focus on the overall learning experience

Co-creation

‘Hearing each other’s voices we all grow’(Frederick and James 2007)

Reflections on learning

• What helped you learn?

• What were the challenges you faced and how did you overcome them?

• Can you share any tips or strategies for new students?

What helped you learn?

• Staff encouragement to explore identity through the work

• Taking risks and experimenting

• Working across subject areas

• Working in collaboration with others

• Individual determination

Not another report….

• Exhibitions

• Staff and student workshops

• University website: Common place

• Archive: pedagogic research base

Visual and tactile experience

• Triggers discussions around difference and identity

• Encourages staff to reflect on their pedagogy

• Produces dialogues on the mutability of meaning

Co-creating change

Student voice projects are about challenging the academy to allow active participation from a wide range of communities and individuals who will help to redefine the parameters of higher education itself

Stuart 2000

Institutional change and the archive

• Race ethnicity degree attainment task group

• Common Place pre-entry website

• Diversity module on PG Cert at CLTAD

• Shades of Noir website

Your Wise Words

• Have a look at the mini exhibition of the student work around the room

• Choose one piece and in pairs discuss it and reflect on what it says and how it has been produced

• Feedback to the group

References

• Stuart,M. (2000)Beyond Rhetoric: Reclaiming a Radical Agenda for Active

Participation in Higher Education. Thomson Ed. Stretching the Academy: The politics and Practice of Widening Participation in Higher Education. Leicester. NIACE

• Frederick, P. and James, M. (2007) Heritage Rocks: Principles and best practices of effective intercultural teaching and learning in D. Robertson and L. Nilson(eds) To improve the Academy. Mass: Anchor Publishing

• Tell Us About It: http://www.arts.ac.uk/clipcetl-tellusaboutitpublication.htm Accessed on 28/11/11

• Finnigan T. (2009) Tell Us About It: Diverse student voices in creative practice. ADCHE 8(2) pp. 135-150

References

• http://commonplace.arts.ac.uk/

• http://www.arts.ac.uk/cltad/shadesofnoir/

• http://issuu.com/obiecampbell/docs/tellusabout_obiecampbell