So far, I have enjoyed the reading I have done for the PGCert as it has been very mixed; from different eras and sources. I have been most intrigued by the above book by Ranciere, as it has totally thrown me. I am working my way through it but am currently not entirely sure what the author’s angle is, especially concerning best recommendations for effective pedagogy.
The book was sent to me by a tutor on my Undergraduate degree many years ago, but I didn’t have time to read it then. I am very glad to be working my way through it now and am setting time aside every day to digest it.
Another interesting read was Allan Davies take on Learning Objectives in Art and Design education. This made great reading for me as many of the tasks and projects I worked on during my BA and MA at UAL started to make sense. I also began to understand my feedback for those projects a bit more, and also could begin to empathise with the struggles for a course team to mark 100 projects, especially for a final major project in Stage 3 which has a lot of weight towards a final degree classification. It also made me think about how at some other Art and Design institutions, such as the RCA, they have opted for simply a pass & fail system, instead of using further superlatives to describe postgraduate practice.