This week on Fine Art first year is feedback week. Students have 20 minute one to one tutorials whereby we read out what has been written about their success in achieving leaning outcomes, (or not of course). I’m also supposed to check on accommodation, finance, general settling in issues as this also acts as a pastoral tutorial and is recorded.
It is possible to slip in a small amount of information about the process of becoming an artist but you have to be careful to keep on script.
The learning outcomes are like a straightjacket; put one on a sane person and very quickly they go mad. What was initially designed as a good thing, (to release prisoners from chains) soon becomes even worse. Gradually straightjackets started being used to restrain political prisoners and other enemies of the state. Working to achievable leaning outcomes and smart targets was originally a way of overcoming the problems surrounding poor teaching. They have brought us down to the lowest common denominator and all good teachers find them restrictive and often harmful, as they take all the invention and discovery out of the process.
I have two solid days of this.
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