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>Exploring Territories: The Changing Landscape of Art and Design Higher
>Education
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>Thursday 6th April 2017
>Manchester Metropolitan University
>
>To book visit www.gladhe.org.uk
>
>Keynote Speakers :
>
>Dr Steven Jones - University of Manchester
>"Beyond Excellence: new discourses for university teaching in the age of
>competition"
>
>Many academics would sympathise with the governmentıs claim that a
>rebalancingı of research and teaching is needed. As a sector, weıve
>become accustomed to close scrutiny of our research while our teaching
>has largely remained unaudited, sometimes over-reliant on the dedication
>of personally committed staff. But to what extent can excellenceı in
>teaching can be justly measured across a higher education sector as
>diverse as the UKıs? And can we be confident that metrics will be used to
>enhance our studentsı learning rather than to enact a market agenda? I
>argue that university offers students something different from their
>earlier, more instrumental educational experiences: opportunities to
>become immersed in a culture of scholarly enquiry and research
>advancement, to learn first-hand from those leading their field, and to
>conspire in the creation of new knowledge. A key challenge for the sector
>is to find the language needed to defend and celebrate teaching practices
>within public discourses that increasingly frame Higher Education in a
>negative light.
>
>Professor Susan Orr - University of the Arts London
>
>'Teaching excellence in Art and Design: What is it and who decides?'
>
>In this keynote Susan will look at art and design education in higher
>education with a particular focus on the ways our understandings of
>excellence are shaped by practice, theory and policy. Susan will explore
>the nature of studio teaching and the role of the creative practitioner
>educator to surface the sectorıs hidden values about teaching and
>learning. The keynote will look at teaching excellence from three angles,
>the governmentıs TEF, the reflective creative teacher and, of course, the
>student.
>Susan will argue that many art and design educators have a conflicted
>relationship with the very idea of teaching that is connected to 20th
>century art school ideas that art and design cannot be taught. Moving
>beyond this Susan exhorts art and design educators in higher education to
>claim and name their teaching expertise. Students and staff need to work
>together to build shared understandings of teaching excellence that can
>serve the art and design sector in the context of TEF.
>
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