I want my course to be a provocation. If everybody is fully comfortable with my outputs, I don’t think I did my job right.
Today I want to talk about my UAL online job where I am CL for the new “Introducing Creativity” course by CCI. The objective of this course is to push the boundary of pedagogical practice, institutional tolerance and the medium of online FE/HE. I wanna blow up some minds.
The work is profoundly informed by my PhD work. My doctoral work is very abstract in many ways, and very esoteric. Yet, I also believe that it is incredibly rigorous and consistent in its inner logic.
Nonetheless, not very useful or applicable as such.
Where my work starts do develop its true strength is “in dialogue with context”.
Once I become exposed to a “real world problem” a strong theoretical grounding and ethical sense of guidance through feminist theory; the needs of remediation become evident and clear.
In other words: learning to see the implicit causes of injustice inevitably puts forward the needs to change the circumstances that have lead to these injustices.
In my UAL ONLINE course for example I want to give the students the ability to grade their own work.
After all, only students themselves are the single authority able to judge if they learned in a truly transformative fashion.
This is me experimenting with academia and pushing the boundary of what is wanted and possible…. (whilst nobody is looking, hihihi).