Marvin Alfred – Teaching and Learning Blog
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Often I find myself drawn to stories of progression and challenges. You will often find me enjoying a Podcast where a creative, entrepreneur or life coach expresses their journey to achieving what they have and the trials and tribulations that they had to overcome to get to the place of understanding unlocking inspirational motivation within …
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Review of Action research Interview – 1. Staff member at UAL – Graduate Assistant. BC is an Assistant at UAL was a very insightful interview. For this I had a set of interview questions that I had prepared beforehand. With this being my first interview I was slightly nervous going into it, very much aware …
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Reflections: Alvesson, M. (2012) ‘Views on Interviews: A Skeptical Review. In: Interpreting Interviews’ Pg 1-26. As part of my readings into research methods, I chose to read Alvesson, M. (2012) ‘Views on Interviews: A Skeptical Review. In: Interpreting Interviews’. Alvesson M, provided some useful insights into using Interviews as a form of research methods, how …
Alex Wheatle a young man who grew up in the UK brought up as an orphan with no love or family. Growing up in an orphanage in Surrey and experiencing severe racism and institutional racism at the hand of his carers and the police and community at the time. The interview with Alex covers his …
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For my micro-teach, I decided to explore ‘Narrative’ within creative practice. My personal practice is fashion focused and so it was only right that I referenced the exploration of narrative within the recent AW21 Louis Vuitton Men’s Fashion show. In this show which was presented a day after the inauguration of Joe Biden and created …
A review of quotes and highlights of the complex ‘Ethic’s of Play’.
The Teaching methods and Practices session were very engaging giving me insight into my peers, their practices, and how they use these to enhance teaching practices. Vanessa discussed how she used her lived experience as a nurse course trainer to best understand her students pastorally. Another colleague shared her works as an artist and expressed …
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Thoroughly enjoyed the introductory lecture today with three very different styles of teaching and presentations to support. The 1st, from Dr Danielle Tran was very clear and very concise presenting one page with focus’ and key points with a link in the header for further information. The 2nd speaker James Wisdom presented a longer presentation …
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Very excited to write my first blog post as I start my journey of academic training. Looking forward to sharing!