Learning and Teaching Newsletter – May 2016
1. Events
GLAD – GROUP FOR LEARNING IN ART & DESIGN – Pedagogic Research Network One Day Symposium
Tuesday 7th June 2016
“TALKING ABOUT ART & DESIGN PEDAGOGIC RESEARCH”
Tuesday 7th June 2016, Coventry University
More at: http://gladhe.org.uk/
Summer Festival of Learning and Teaching
Wednesday 1st – Thursday 30th June 2016
The Summer Festival of Learning and Teaching will run for the month of June and give all MMU staff an opportunity to share their own good practice, find out more about interesting approaches and resources used at MMU and in other institutions and to collaborate with colleagues both at MMU and internationally.
In addition, we are linking the Festival to an exciting collaboration with our CARPE partners: a summer school for staff who’d like to find out more about joint teaching and research across the CARPE network.
More details at: http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/festival/index.php
7th International Urban Sketchers Symposium
Wednesday 27th – Saturday 30th July 2016
Manchester School of Art is delighted to be hosting the 7th International Urban Sketchers Symposium between 27 and 30 July 2016.
The International Urban Sketching Symposium is an annual educational event organized by Urban Sketchers, a non-profit organisation dedicated to fostering the practice of on-location observational sketching.
More at: http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/events/2016/urban-sketchers-symposium/
14th ELIA BIENNIAL CONFERENCE in Florence.
Wednesday 30th November – Saturday 3rd December 2016
TURN MIRRORS INTO WINDOWS | 30 November – 3 December 2016 Florence, Italy
Registration Open Now!
ELIA – the European League for the Institutes of the Arts – is delighted to announce the 14th ELIA Biennial Conference Turn Mirrors Into Windows, that will take place 30 November-3 December 2016 in Florence, Italy.
Register now to join us in Florence!The ELIA Biennial Conference is the largest conference on higher arts education worldwide, drawing an audience of approximately 500 directors, artists, lecturers and thinkers.
Landscapes of Identity Symposium 2016
Wednesday 18th May 2016
In a rapidly changing world, how does an industrialised and urbanised city such as Manchester contribute, resist or mediate the changes that are caused by globalising forces, or, how the city in turn, is coming to be changed itself? What are the strategic roles of heritage, design, art and culture in shaping Manchester’s identity and placemaking?
More at: http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/events/2016/landscapes-of-identity-symposium/
2. Lectures
Professor Martyn Evans
Wednesday 18th May 2016
“Designing the Future”
Martyn Evans is Professor of Design at Manchester School of Art. Martyn is a product designer and design academic with 20 years research, teaching and leadership experience. Interested in the strategic role that design commands in a variety of settings, his research explores the approaches designers use to conceptualise and communicate the future. With broad experience of design as future making, he has presented on this, and related, topics nationally and internationally.
More at: http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/events/2016/ask-martyn-evans/
Professor Raphael Fonseca (Colégio Pedro II, Brazil)
Wednesday 25th May 2016
The line that welcomes the body: the hammock and Brazil
From an Eurocentric view, the hammock is often seen as the symbol of ‘Brazilianness’ – a monument for the constructed idea of ‘tropical lazyness’. An indigenous object that was appropriated by the European populations during the centuries of the invasion of Latin America, the hammock has a history of its own. Raphael Fonseca will discuss this subject in the context of his curatorial project, When Time Presses, a prize-winner of the Marcantônio Vilaça Award (2015 edition). This exhibition, which featured works of thirteen Brazilian artists, reflected on the relation between leisure, rest, work and tiredness through artworks from the 1950’s till present.
More at: http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/events/2016/ask-raphael-fonseca/
3. Research
Art Pedagogy Experiment: The School of Art’s Pedagogic Research Group.
More at: http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/research/pedagogy/
New NSEAD (National Society for Education in Art & Design) research shows a decline in art, craft and design qualification completions.
New research by NSEAD indicates there has been an overall decline in art, craft and design qualification completions in the last five years. The research combines completion numbers published by Ofqual and JQC, for level 2 and 3 Art and Design GCSE/GCEs and Craft, Creative Arts and Design vocational qualifications (England, Northern Ireland and Wales). The combined completion numbers for art, craft and design have significantly decreased.
Findings from the NSEAD Survey Report 2015-16, published 9 February 2016, indicated that in the last five years many vocational art and design courses have closed and there has been a decrease in time allocated for art and design across all phases. The reduction in volume completions for Art and Design GCSE/GCEs and Craft, Creative Arts and Design vocational qualifications are symptomatic of both course closures and the decrease in time allocated for art and design across all phases.
More details: http://www.nsead.org/news/index.aspx
Teaching Excellence Framework
The Government are set to publish a White paper on the future of teaching in Higher Education which will introduce a “Teaching Excellence Framework”.
This may mean:
Moving away from QAA audits (every 6 years). Light touch metrics to get data – not on-site inspections.
New priorities – from research to rewarding teaching quality and enhancing the student experience.
High scoring courses/departments/institutions to charge higher fees. De facto removal of tuition fees cap.
Measure through: degree results; employment data (including earnings); grade point assessment; student satisfaction (e.g. ISS/NSS/).
Applies only to England. Green paper published 6 November 2015. Consultation to 15 January 2016. White paper to be published spring/summer 2016.
4. Scholarships
Interested in a SoLT (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)? MMU is supporting pedagogic research across the university, extending our reach across the UK sector as significant contributor to the HE learning & teaching discourse, and making a 2020 Research Excellence Framework (REF) return in due course.
We are establishing a focus for pedagogic research in HE (PedR) which is more definable and tangible than a loose network of research-related activities. An important part of that focus is on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), which is now developing as an established, world-wide, scholarly discourse around: the theory and practice of learning and teaching; what we mean by excellence in those practices; and how we develop and share that good practice with colleagues
More at: http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/developing_scholarship/index.php
5. Revised School Strategic Learning & Teaching Plan 2016
Please follow the below link to the revised Learning and Teaching Strategy document. It is important that you are fully aware of this information as you may be asked questions about it during the QAA Review.
http://www.artdesnet.mmu.ac.uk/directory/document/10641
