We are meeting at 1:00 p.m. on February 7th in the 1st floor board room of Bridge House to talk and plan. We have had a number of ideas for work on ‘internationalisation’ (of the curriculum, of the university community, and as a construct in its own right), affective pedagogies, reading groups and the creation of shared materials for teaching in specific disciplines. Come to get involved or find out more about what is going on…

First steps…

On December 4th, a group of about twenty educators from across the university met to discuss the future of the new Teaching Academy. The discussion affirmed the rich potential of creating space to talk freely about teaching and learning within the university. It also highlighted a range of possibilities for how this particular space might take shape to:

…valorise creativity and experimentation in pedagogy; share good practice and work in progress; and identify, articulate and argue for the value of alternative possibilities;

…enable all members of the university community to discuss, in public and together, the complex issues and forces affecting higher learning and the university itself;

…organise practical mutual aid and support for educators at all stages of career;

…publicise new research and research opportunities in pedagogical, educational and educationally-relevant research;

…embrace the long-term and unquantifiable emergence of dialogue and understanding that enables deliberate development of educational knowledge and practice and mitigates against reactive responses to external forces and pressures; and

…cultivate a network of thoughtful educators producing critical knowledge about teaching, learning and higher education that can inform the development of pedagogically sound institutional practice.

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