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Author: Sheran Forbes
Reflective Summary
It began as most plans do, a well thought through well-structured ACTION kind of a plan. The intentions were there, my aims set high, I would produce a video essay or a podcast, or a publication. Ha! You cry (head thrown back) actually, I cry, like really CRY! Yep! things never go quite to plan … best laid plans… Continue reading Reflective Summary
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Presentations
Final ARP Presentation slides Q&A Question Slides Zine Writing Workshop slides The zine writing workshop adjusted to suit non-traditional educational environments such as the LCC Darkroom Bar! First Proposal Writing Working slides I began planning the pop-up writing workshops sessions that would to take place between the start of the written assignment and the deadline. … Continue reading Presentations
Ethics
I hadn’t considered ethics, and not in the formal convention. I was aware that I might need some kind of consent form with a brief explanation of what my research project would be about for participants. However, workshop one gave me an opportunity to think about this and the participants, who they might be and… Continue reading Ethics
Research Methods
Over the summer I’d come across some useful journals, websites and a podcast on setting up writing workshops and guides on how to ‘teach’ writing. The podcast ‘Unconditional Teaching’ whereby a group of lecturers discuss topics related to higher education, teaching and studying had a particularly interesting episode where they had been discussing ways in which academic language… Continue reading Research Methods
Action Plan
I decided to use Miro as my digital sketchbook for ARP and have found it really useful in the past for dropping in ideas, pics and links. It’s great for to creating quick mind-maps that I can go back into and edit throughout the process. My challenge thus week was to create a timeline that… Continue reading Action Plan
Rationale
Can we teach writing to look and feel more like designing? At the beginning, I hadn’t really thought about my research question and what that might be. I did however know that for my Action Research Project I wanted to continue with my Intervention Proposal which would be to set up pop-up writing workshops to… Continue reading Rationale
Intervention Report: Pop-Up Writing Workshops
‘I was anxious in case I failed, of course. I didn’t understand anything I read. I felt I could never ever write an essay. I wanted to leave in semester one.’ Shirley Anne Tate, 2018. Writing is hard, my tutor wrote me as I contemplated leaving the writing programme I had only just begun. In… Continue reading Intervention Report: Pop-Up Writing Workshops
IP Blog 3 – ‘Race is something we make; it is not something that makes us.’
Kwame Anthony Appiah: 2016 Reith Lectures Creed, County, Colour, Culture ‘We need to get comfortable being uncomfortable’ Asif Sadiq says. We learn through experience, sometimes those experiences can be uncomfortable but to drive change we need to embrace ‘uncomfortable’ because that’s how we learn. (Sadiq, 2023). Delivering a lecture to a room full of diverse students… Continue reading IP Blog 3 – ‘Race is something we make; it is not something that makes us.’