Author Archives: Paul Bench

Below, I respond to recurrent themes in the filmed testimony of three people, examining their diverse experiences of disability and intersecting identities. Kimberlé Crenshaw (1990) developed ‘intersectionality’ to explain that occupying multiple marginalised identities compounds oppression. Intersectional praxis in education … Continue reading →

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 →