Author Archives: Michelle Ussher
Reflective Post 4
The potential of online object-based learning activities to support the teaching of intersectional environmentalism in art and design higher education. Kieran Mahon and Judy Willcocks.. (2023) I chose this article owing to its focus on Colonialism to Climate Crisis during the 2020-21 … Continue reading
Reflective Post 3
Decolonising the library: a theoretical exploration, Crilly, J (2019) I selected this reading as in my role as a Critical Studies Subject Tutor I work with object-based learning through an archive built from Colonised activity at the Edward James Foundation. … Continue reading
Reflective Post 2
Assessment and student transformation: linking character and intellect, Mark Barrow I have an MA in Aesthetics and was keen to read how Foucault could be used in relation to assessment as I use other philosopher’s concepts in my teaching practice … Continue reading
Microteaching EXTRA
Session Feedback from Dr. Kwame Baah 27 Feb 2024. Your session taught participants how to describe artwork based on framework of separating objective and subjective descriptors. The success of your microteach was about making participants understand that art could be described … Continue reading
Reflective Post 1
Writing Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria in Art and Design. A. Davies The learning outcomes and assessment reading for Workshops 3 & 4 are relevant to my current assessments for Parts 2 & 3 of the Foundation Painting Pathway, and … Continue reading
Case Study 2. Planning and teaching for effective learning
Contextual Background : Within the BA ACC Theory in Practice, I wanted to plan a one-day teaching session on Habit, Repetition, and Accident in relation to mark-making for a group of mature female students who are managing menopause and fatigue after … Continue reading
Microteaching
I prepared and delivered Friday 9 Feb a 20-minute microteaching session for 6 participants using object-based learning. I chose this lesson activity following the Workshop 2 reading on object-based learning (Willcox and Mahon, 2023) and observing my students struggling to … Continue reading
Hello
I’m Michelle. I am an Associate Lecturer at CSM on the Foundation Painting Pathway, and the Critical Studies Subject Lead at West Dean College (Sussex University) BA Fine Art & Contemporary Craft and BA Craft Practices (Furniture, Musical Instruments & … Continue reading