Author Archives: Lucy Parker

Case Study 2: Planning and teaching for effective learning (A1, A2, V3) 

Contextual Background  The Archives and Special Collections Centre (ASCC), is part of Library Services at UAL. The management of Library Services has brought in a new KPI (‘Key Performance Indicator’) around our taught sessions: ‘Have the Learning Outcomes been met?’. … Continue reading

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Literature blog 4: Oliver (2004)

Mike Oliver, ‘The Social Model in Action: if I had a hammer, ‘ in Implementing the Social Model of Disability: Theory and Research edited by Colin Barnes and GeofMercer (2004); Leeds: The Disability Press, pp. 18-31. It is more than … Continue reading

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Case Study 1: Knowing and meeting the needs of diverse learners (V1, V3) 

Contextual Background:  In our handling sessions we are introducing a large volume of students to selections of material from the archive, to show them the kind of resources we hold. We give them information about the collections, safe handling, and … Continue reading

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Reflections on Microteach

Find here my Session Plan In this session I wanted to develop the basis for a drawing workshop with objects from our collections. It is something that we have talked about for a while within the Archives and Special Collections … Continue reading

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Notes on Elena Crippa, “From ‘Crit’ to ‘Lecture-performance'” in The London Art Schools: Reforming the Art World, 1960 to Now

This isn’t on the syllabus but it feels like a useful historical working-through about ‘the crit’, and is referred to in Orr & Shreeve (2018. If the crit might be intimidating to students, perhaps understanding the context in which it … Continue reading

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Literature blog 3: Salamon (2018)

I am also quite curious, about the potential of drawing. In particular, in my current work place, for engaging students in looking at archives using drawing. I also have a background in drawing and painting, so its something that relates, … Continue reading

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Drawing thoughts

Post-it note drawing to describe/explain a museum object to a colleague https://www.instagram.com/p/BwAf-3jlYNT/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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Literature blog 2: Grout (2019)

As I am also an archivist from the same team at UAL as Hannah Grout, when she was writing her article. Grout’s argument (2019), aligns with the teaching and archival work that I help to support on a day to … Continue reading

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Literature blog 1: Orr and Shreeve (2018)

This essay is a literature review of recent texts on art and design pedagogy. It focusses on signature pedagogies as ways to ‘mediate’ the educational to the professional ‘real life’ context. The authors return to the word ‘sticky’ throughout the … Continue reading

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Notes ahead of Workshop 1 A

I was assigned reading 3 (Osler et al, Storying the self) but I wanted to focus on reading 2 (Orr and Shreeve, 2018), 1 (McDonald and Michela 2019), and 5 (Willcocks and Mahon, 2023), and if time 4. [Might have … Continue reading

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