Parallel session: Parallel session 5

  • Site-Specific Pedagogy Map

    The Site-Specific Pedagogy Map is a paper and digital object that is an outcome of the UAL Educational Enhancement Sabbatical 2024. The map offers six pedagogical exercises based on Mike Pearson’s approaches to the ‘visitation’ of a site and how that site might be excavated for cultural, political and historical artefacts to be brought back…

  • Museum of Truth & Lies

    The Museum of Truth & Lies (MoT&L) is a creative enquiry that has recently emerged from Yasmin Khan’s inaugural fellowship at the AKO Storytelling Institute. MoT&L is seeking imaginative ways to maintain public trust, strengthen truth-telling, and curb misinformation in our cultural institutions and collections. The grassroots initiative is anchored by a forthcoming podcast series…

  • Preparing STEM Assessments and Teaching in Creative Academic Environments

    The intersection of arts and STEM education is gaining more and more popularity in higher education. Due to this, STEM subjects are being taught to learners from arts and creative disciplines and in arts education institutions. This conversation will be a space for STEM educators in arts universities to reimagine how assessments and teaching for…

  • Another Intercultural Context: Australian universities and indigenising the curriculum

    In Australia, what is meant by “indigenising the curriculum”? Broadly, it’s about bringing the perspectives, traditional knowledges and processes of Aboriginal cultures into mainstream education: not just as an adjunct, but embedded. This session offers a snapshot of the why, what and how of indigenisation – and invites you to compare and contrast with our…

  • Towards a Critical information literacy curriculum

    Critical Librarianship, is a new designation for a long-practiced critical approach. Also referred to as radical or progressive Librarianship, it calls on us to acknowledge systems of power and privilege that underpin the profession in an effort to challenge & change them. Built on the ideas from theorists like Paulo Friere, Henry Giroux, and Bell…

  • Material culture, representation and belonging

    Special collections at UAL support learning and teaching through direct engagement with material culture. There is ample evidence to suggest how ‘object-based learning’ (Paris, 2002) generates conversations, addresses troublesome knowledge and develops skills and critical thinking. But what – and who – is on the table is all important. This hands-on workshop explores how objects…

  • Pedagogy in Place: Decolonisation and Design Justice Through Socially Engaged Practice

    How can cross-departmental collaboration enable new teaching and learning approaches to social design? Our panel discusses a new approach to collaboration which brings together academic and technical resources to deliver a project outside of the traditional teaching environment by embedding students into a community where they were required to engage and co-develop in response to…

  • Fun with the Inquilab/Ink-Lab reading group

    Inquilab/Ink-Lab Reading Group is now three years old. It offers an expanded form of reading and operates as a creative method to share stories, issues, dreams and inclusive approaches to, teaching and learning in Higher Education. Everyone is welcome to this interactive conversation through a creative object based workshop with the sharing of impactful quotes…