Monthly Archives: March 2025

I am unit leader for Fashion Histories on MA Fashion Cultures and Histories, with some agency to modify briefs and Learning Outcomes. The unit has two assessed submissions: a review (Element 1) and an essay (Element 2). It begins an … Continue reading →

This reflection addresses the influence of Michel Foucault’s theories on education. Mark Barrow (2006) deploys Foucault’s technologies of the self to argue that education contributes to self-construction and that this is especially prominent in creative degrees, proposing that ‘design assessment … Continue reading →

This reflection addresses Learning Outcomes, their emergence and relationship to a neoliberal, market orientated agenda and the tensions in implementing the ‘technocratic ideology of learning and assessment’ in art and design courses (Davies, 2012, p. 4). Nicholas Addison (2014) highlights … Continue reading →

Record of Observation or Review of Teaching Practice           Session/artefact to be observed/reviewed: 2 hours Seminar for BA Fashion Marketing Year 1 Size of student group: Around 20 students Observer: Paul Bench Observee: Misha Xu Note: This record is solely … Continue reading →

Record of Observation or Review of Teaching Practice           Session/artefact to be observed/reviewed: 2 x online tutorials of 30mins each Size of student group: students meet one-to-one with tutor Observer: Misha Xu Observee: Paul Bench   Note: This record is … Continue reading →

Record of Observation or Review of Teaching Practice           Session/artefact to be observed/reviewed: Dissertation feedback and grading Size of student group: Saw students on individual tutorial basis, please focus on 6 students I have first marked. Observer: Carys Kennedy Observee: … Continue reading →

I am Unit Leader for Fashion Histories on MA Fashion Cultures and Histories at LCF. Last year I was able to shape content and modify a brief. The unit is structured around weekly guest lectures and seminars. It has two … Continue reading →

For the object-based microteaching exercise I planned to spend 5 minutes establishing access to Padlet (fig. 1), the aims of the session (fig. 2), a succinct theoretical framework (fig. 3) and practical instructions (fig. 4). The latter included participants choosing … Continue reading →

I was invited to give three lectures for MA Fashion Photography, with an open brief but the implicit rationale of highlighting academic research for practice-based students. I did not have a sustained relationship with the group or course. From available … Continue reading →