This dichotomy is something else that I have been puzzling over in these sessions and in my teaching practice more broadly. In one exercise in a TPP class, we had to respond to a series of quotes on padlet, all of them seemed to be concerned with the relative importance of experience and taught content…

“Making the classroom a democratic setting where everyone feels a responsibility to contribute is a central goal of transformative pedagogy.” Bell hooks’ manual for ‘transformative pedagogy’ begins with the idea that teachers and students should be active participants in the classroom, not passively consumed and that the teaching process itself should be a form of…

For this session, I was asked to prepare a presentation about my teaching and practice and bring in a piece of writing about pedagogical theory. I chose Teaching to transgress by bell hooks, a book I’ve been dipping in and out of for the past few months and trying to apply bits to sporadic lessons…

I’m a visual journalist and filmmaker, I also teach on the animation pathway on the Foundation course at Camberwell and on the BA Illustration course (First and Second Years) at Camberwell. I’m studying for a PG Cert to improve and inform my teaching and personal practice.