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Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:57:12 +0000

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Whilst designing my research methodology, I initially contemplated sending a questionnaire to Year 3 students and conduct a Focus Group with Year 1 students. However, after a breakout room discussion […]

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Fri, 30 Jul 2021 10:16:39 +0000

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Introduction

As a South-Asian textiles lecturer and designer who’s creative work draws from Indian visual culture; questions of cultural identity, it’s appropriation and ownership are ong […]

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Fri, 30 Jul 2021 10:13:58 +0000

In 2019, I initiated a workshop on ‘Cultural Appropriation’ to create a space for Year 1 Textiles and Jewellery students to discuss the concept through an object-based learning workshop facilitated by colleagues […]

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Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:25:39 +0000

Born and brought up in India, I was always the majority growing up so my awareness of ‘race’ only properly came into being when I moved to the UK to study back in 2005. Still, it took many more years before I sta […]

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Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:22:53 +0000

In 2019, I initiated and helped facilitate an object-based-learning workshop with a focus on ‘cultural appropriation’ with the CSM Museum. It was aimed at year 1 textile and jewellery students and was opt […]

Kangan Arora commented on the post, Moving to pass/fail assessment in 2020 (part 2), on the site The Exchange Blog

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 21:34:57 +0000

Hi, is the Pass/Fail session Padlet still available to view? Link not working.
Thanks, Kangan

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Tue, 01 Jun 2021 10:27:17 +0000

Hi Tomi,
Thanks for your comment. Whilst there hasn’t been a ‘Thing of the week’ with the same level of seriousness since the referendum discussion, students have really enjoyed having 10 minutes at the beginning […]

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Sun, 30 May 2021 10:25:41 +0000

The discussion this week focused on teaching an invisible audience, teaching as performative activity and tutors receiving ‘feedback’.

Hattie Voelcker’s ‘Performing with an invisible audience’ came with lots […]

Kangan Arora commented on the post, Disability, on the site My PGCert Blog

Thu, 27 May 2021 12:17:07 +0000

Hi Juliette,
I really enjoyed reading your blog too. Thanks for mentioning the SOR Mental Health and Creative Healing resource – I had actually not read that particular publication but made an effort to after […]

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Thu, 27 May 2021 12:00:36 +0000

Thank you Juliette, yes it’s been great to read everyone’s thoughts on these resources. I really loved Christine’s film too.

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Tue, 25 May 2021 10:25:50 +0000

Thanks Annette. Absolutely, TOTW has been great to continue these conversations as a group as there was such limited scope for interaction outside of scheduled sessions during the pandemic, definitely something we […]

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Tue, 25 May 2021 10:09:41 +0000

Keren, thank you for introducing me to the concept of ‘right speech’ and ‘non violent communication’ (through the article). The article explained all the aspects of communication and how to navigate them, […]

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Sun, 23 May 2021 11:09:31 +0000

Love and care are crucial for establishing a sense of belonging. For this week’s discussion, I read/watched three resources – Bell Hook’s introduction to her book, All about Love, Laura D’Olimpio’s Ethics of Care […]

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Wed, 19 May 2021 16:35:42 +0000

Slide one of my microteaching activity where we discussed how colour can be a very emotional and personal object.

We were asked to design a micro-teaching activity around OBL or Object based learning. […]

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Mon, 17 May 2021 15:26:23 +0000

As illustrated in Kwame Anthony Appiah’s lecture on Creed, the idea of religion or belief is fluid, as it changes with the way it is interpreted. One’s positionality or upbringing often determines the importance […]

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Thu, 06 May 2021 09:14:14 +0000

Thanks for your comments Lauren. ‘Creatively-able’ really unlocked a lot for me.
I agree that we only spend the time when we are confronted with a particular situation, like in the case of your ‘Deaf awareness […]

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Tue, 04 May 2021 18:43:38 +0000

The resources shared for this blogging task really broadened my limited understanding around disability and were very thought provoking. The Shades of Noir TOR in particular helped in grasping the language used […]

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Tue, 27 Apr 2021 08:03:26 +0000

Gadamer’s Truth and Method

Having returned to Monica Vilhauer’s “Understanding Art: The Play of Work and Spectator” after a few months since I initially read it back in February, it revealed it’s true […]

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Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:49:28 +0000

Slides from my introductions presentation: I introduced both my teaching and professional practice to my peers, these are my collaborations with IKEA (left) and Floor_Story (right).

We introduced ourselves […]

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Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:41:10 +0000

Victoria Odeniyi’s lecture about ‘Reimagining Conversations with Multilingual Students’ asked many relevant questions that are being raised on a day- to-day basis within our teaching team since we made the […]

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Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:19:12 +0000

Hello, my name is Kangan Arora.

I’m a Lecturer on the BA Textile and Jewellery Design courses at Central Saint Martins. I mostly work with the Year 1 teams and alongside teaching, focus on community […]