During my intervention I had several conversations with GCD Course Leader, Kira Salter, who was able to offer me some great advice on Action Research and kindly shared her previous ARPs with me to read.
Some notes below:
I had several conversations with BAGCD Course Leader Kira Salter who really helped me make sense of what I was doing and how to move forward with practical steps.
Kira provided me with her own ARPs and MA Teaching and Learning projects and these have been hugely helpful in gaining insight into the steps and structure of an ARP.
Kira’s ARP on Inclusive Curricula provides some interesting insights:
“provide an inclusive curriculum that anticipates the needs of all students regardless of their ethnicity, gender, their social background”
(Salter, 2020:3)
“By adopting student centered learning strategies that instil a
culture of inclusivity, that not only recognises but also utilises diversity, we can
provide a learning environment that delivers equality in both the access to learning and one that encourages, and nurtures, students contributions.”
(Salter, 2020:3)
This quote in particular really chimed with my intervention ideas, that the diversity of the student cohort provides an amazing opportunity to “utilise diversity” that “encourages, and nurtures, students contributions.” In this way the subject of typography can be made more diverse through the students research and ideas.
These ideas fed into my planning to use Padlet as a way to document the student’s work on the intervention but also so that it could be a communal learning resource for them during the sessions and beyond.
“transform a closed discourse into open conversation in pursuit of a better representation of diverse historical, geographical and cultural contexts, as well as underrepresented and marginalised voices.”
(Salter, 2020:1)
Salter, K. (2020) How can participatory approaches impact, re-imagine and decolonise the curriculum? MA Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication. University of the Arts London
Salter, K. (2020) Action Research Project. PgCert in Academic Practice. University of the Arts London