SEDA Fellowships Annual CPD Event
Confessions of a Swamp Girl - using analogies to teach essay writing (or pretty much anything else)
02 November 2016Location: Chartwell Room, Hilton Hotel Metropole, Brighton
Our own CPD is an important aspect of our work as developers, and we aim to include in these annual SEDA Fellowship events opportunities for discussion, reflection, and exploring new ideas. All Fellowship holders and registrants are very welcome.
Come and join Dr Alke Groppel-Wegener in thinking about the
potential issues when trying to combine teaching and Research. A self-confessed
'swamp girl' (in Donald Schon's notion of the swamp as opposed to the theoretical
and academic high ground), Alke will share her practice of using analogies as a
teaching (and learning) strategy. After a brief overview of this, we will have
the opportunity to try out one of the activities she uses to explain to her
students the hidden academic practice so prevalent in HE that can seem baffling
to a student not yet introduced into the field. This activity, titled the
Dress-up Doll of Formality, will allow us to explore genre, not just in the
writing sense, but also in reflecting on the managerial genre which staff in HE come
across every day - some of which might be just as baffling and misunderstood by
them as a research essay is to some first year students. There will be plenty
of opportunity to exchange impressions, ideas and opinions, and Alke will round
off the evening with some thoughts on the practice of regenring.
Dr
Alke Groppel-Wegener is Associate Professor of Creative Academic Practice at
Staffordshire University and a National Teaching Fellow. With a background in
(theatre) design, she has found herself exploring writing as a practice for
designers in her doctoral work and one part of her job is teaching art and
design students to write essays. This has spurred an interest in the
exploration of links between creative and academic practice, which she explores
further on her blog www.tactileacademia.com.
She has recently collated analogies and activities mapping the research and
writing of a basic research essay and published them as Writing Essays by
Pictures: A workbook.
Open to: Holders of SFSEDA, FSEDA and AFSEDA, and registrants
The event will commence at 18.30 with a buffet supper at approximately 20.00.
The event is free for all Fellowship holders and registrants and £30.00 for others. Please book for the event via the booking form for the 21st Annual SEDA Conference.
We look forward to seeing your there.
Marita Grimwood (FSEDA), SEDA Fellowships Co-ordinator
Open to: Holders of SFSEDA, FSEDA and AFSEDA, and registrants
The event will commence at 18.30 with a buffet supper at approximately 20.00.
The event is free for all Fellowship holders and registrants and £30.00 for others. Please book for the event via the booking form for the 21st Annual SEDA Conference.
We look forward to seeing your there.
Marita Grimwood (FSEDA), SEDA Fellowships Co-ordinator
