I've written a note down at the end of the last session that says we're supposed to be writing a short narrative about a particular learning experience we've had. Asked around about it and no one seems to know what I'm talking about. Are we supposed to be writing a short narrative about a particular learning experience that we've had, or am I making this up?
Colin
Hi Colin (and anyone else looking!)
ReplyDeleteThere are 3 pieces of 'homework' before the next 2 days, 2 of these are learning style questionnaires which I shall send round next week, the other is a short task:
to think about your personal learning experiences, as a child or an adult and to write a short narrative c. 150-200 words on a good experience of learning and a bad experience. It is possible to illustrate your experiences if you would prefer.
These experiences are to be shared on this blog, so be mindful of what you share.
I shall email round about all of these later in the week. In the meantime, get blogging!
learning experiences well I wont use the spell check and i guess it wont be long before you realise what i never learnt . I had a particularly bad junior school experiences of changing from ITA (initial teaching alphabet ) back to normal english .
ReplyDeleteIn the 1960s ITA was the latest thing, I was one of the children on the trial . There was a planned program for children to reintegrate back into the main streasm however My mother , freeked out by the strangeness of her daughters wierd writing moved me mid way through the program into a very streight victorian school where my written language, or lack of it, was completely mis understood . I was shouted at and humiliated the rules were never explained to me so i didn't get a handle on how to construct english eventually i became so belligerant i thought i wont do it and those who think its important are fools . GREAT !!!!
A good learning experience was at the Tate
where i was asked to run a workshop I was in ,my late 20s it was early days at tate Liverpool and they were asking artists to run workshops in the galleries I reaslly didnt think i could do it
i didnt know what i could do or say I wasnt a historian I was really panicked but with some really supportive giudance from friends and collegues and research i managed to do it . By simply teaching my way of looking at art works as a method or tool for looking- so allowing questions as part of the practice- and whats more together with the team we came up with ways of working in art in galleries that became the orthadoxy . that achivement made me really energised me i used to love running workshops
janet Hodgson