myblog | Donald McCrory | Activity https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/members/20041900/activity/ Activity feed for Donald McCrory. Sun, 03 May 2026 19:18:14 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 8911484770950e0d8c6136db7f80e623 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=253 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 16:32:15 +0000 ARTEFACT – Studio Book  ‘Studio Book’, it’s intended use within my teaching methodologies and it’s evolution:

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]]> 0 cf839060b0b971e87ced8ba07c3e485b Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=210 Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:19:00 +0000 Following the collection of responses from students, peers, management and other institutions my thoughts turned to how they could be collated and utilised as a proposal for pedagogical change.

Inspired by the […]

]]> 0 4b67c3f422e117420b1a60efe3512f66 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=177 Wed, 27 Dec 2023 21:35:46 +0000 “the human mind will not be confined to any limits” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“we are educating people out of their creative capacities” How the classroom kills creativity, Ken Robinson

How can we lis […]

]]> 0 e54a2daddb1e64f8c4cdc3daee5e3f51 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=176 Wed, 27 Dec 2023 21:11:06 +0000 ‘Play… is something fundamentally larger than the individual player or their mental state; it is a pattern of movement that surpasses both the players, and is something to which both players belong.’ (p32) Vilha […]

]]> 0 83e56e333085cb757fd717f14e02cecd Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=164 Wed, 27 Dec 2023 12:21:22 +0000 “the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”― David Graeber

The criticisms growing louder in voice are not new, as a result unive […]

]]> 0 9dcd82cab8c133608fdd2295f82a598a Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=154 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:08:59 +0000 Rationale, participating in design reviews are often considered an important part of ‘becoming an architect’ (Sara and Parnell 2011; Doidge, Sara, and Parnell 2000; Webster 2006b). Testing ideas, providing and […]

]]> 0 75c2d84cd03e0ebf2cc4a1389a2da499 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=146 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:17:02 +0000 ‘I tell my students, when you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is, if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power then you n […]

]]> 0 6fe07be2aaf00b7bb1e5c0bb8fdb3896 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=140 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:16:39 +0000 “The goal of research is to inform action, but action is impossible without the conscience of the researcher.”

– Jane Jacobs 1

”Ethical research means culturally safe research.” (Caroline Len […]

]]> 0 e0225686ddf5ec44c28991bb48293d5a Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=128 Fri, 06 Oct 2023 10:39:58 +0000 What is a “practitioner-researcher”?

‘[…] someone who holds down a job in a particular area and at the same time carries out […] inquiry which is of relevance to the job.’ (Robson, 1993, p.446) 1

The ‘Acti […]

]]> 0 cc8ba1c3404e2ce996ccfde18c6c52ed Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=119 Thu, 05 Oct 2023 18:36:19 +0000 What is ARP?

My initial thoughts centred around self-designed research project, democratised method of research? 1:1 supervision? In-person sessions? Knowledge production and presentation in the working world […]

]]> 0 14f7a837d9df552a615f806da2759ee7 Donald McCrory posted a new activity comment https://tillypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2023/06/13/ip3-race/#comment-18 Wed, 12 Jul 2023 08:14:35 +0000 Tilly I enjoyed your analysis of Freire’s education system, how students’ identities should be considered, recognising that individuals in the classroom, including the teacher, do not start from the same social status and identity. Ideal educational experience occurring through a collaboration between teachers and students rather than the b…Read more

In reply to - Clotilde – Florent De Verteuil wrote a new post on the site Tilly Pg Cert I begin this blog post with some extended context, an overview of the article. The article A Pedagogy of Social Justice Education: […] ]]> 3b53958db55910ecbdeaef77c3c3da21 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=113 Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:24:30 +0000 DRAFT artefact outline via email 230515  Feedback

Draft thoughts for artefact

A few thoughts about next steps, ready for the upcoming the formative assessment:

·       I’d encourage you to start to b […]

]]> 0 4e662e3b81e3ade827ae56fd04142bab Donald McCrory posted a new activity comment https://pgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2023/06/13/inclusive-practices-faith/#comment-7 Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:18:08 +0000 Dear Anna, thank you for your insightful blog, we share a similar religious upbringing and education. The crowning of Charles III resembling a religious event makes sense for me, especially in relation to your aforementioned schooling. The close association or ordination by God provides immunity, just as your experiences of having ‘no room for c…Read more

In reply to - Anna Nagele wrote a new post on the site Anna is doing a PG Cert This year is the first time I had tutorials with multiple students from religious backgrounds other than my own – mostly Muslim – who are developing […] ]]> ecb10afa372173838ee9f9b8d47566d1 Donald McCrory posted a new activity comment https://pgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2023/06/13/inclusive-practices-faith/#comment-6 Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:17:50 +0000 Dear Anna, thank you for your insightful blog, we share a similar religious upbringing and education. The crowning of Charles III resembling a religious event makes sense for me, especially in relation to your aforementioned schooling. The close association or ordination by God provides immunity, just as your experiences of having ‘no room for…Read more

In reply to - Anna Nagele wrote a new post on the site Anna is doing a PG Cert This year is the first time I had tutorials with multiple students from religious backgrounds other than my own – mostly Muslim – who are developing […] ]]> 8aa08ccf088ead64bc752d393395d523 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=110 Sun, 09 Jul 2023 17:56:20 +0000 Race & Ethnicity: Privilege, Power & the Sociology of Dominance.

TASK 1 – Session 2 Review

Focus on UAL data is productive. Practical steps to build upon would be useful

TASK 2 – Faith in […]

]]> 0 393a35d04d684dcdb2503bbebc96ba57 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=107 Sun, 09 Jul 2023 16:55:53 +0000 Intersectionality: Disability, Gender, Faith & Race.

 TASK 1 – Review of Session 

Feedback https://artslondon.padlet.org/sosei/wednesday-session-1-feedback-g0iq2joaayuwcx2g

There’s a reason these “qu […]

]]> 0 e2b44441dab33d8d57c506572ca00406 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=102 Sun, 09 Jul 2023 15:53:21 +0000 Pedagogies of Social Diversity and Difference in Art & Design.

TASK 1. Positionality

Positionality is the social and political context that creates your identity in terms of race, class, gender, sexuality, […]

]]> 0 bad493fb9b5f194345a0d46809331e29 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=89 Mon, 19 Jun 2023 21:36:39 +0000 For Bourdieu, it is an ‘obvious truth’ (Bourdieu 1991) that art is implicated in the reproduction of inequalities, and that the relationship between culture and power is such that taste creates social dif […]

]]> 2 661d42e457b178e99e962d1ae4dcfef4 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=80 Sun, 14 May 2023 21:22:08 +0000 Religious background in the Northern Ireland Troubles, I left the fundamental faith, however I am still interested in the philosophical and cultural traditions, for example as discussed in De Botton’s Religion […]

]]> 2 0c6578fa33fbe98065b9e8469ec3da4f Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=75 Sun, 07 May 2023 22:21:40 +0000 My hearing aids, prescribed to me when I was 32 years old, which I am reluctant to wear. How can I expect others to share their experience with disability when I hide my own impairments?

UAL Disability Service […]

]]> 1 7bc1bf187c10e9cf3505b4f56f0be612 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=73 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:24:57 +0000 Case Studies

Bruce Macfarlane & Lesley Gourlay (2009) The reflection game: enacting the penitent self, Teaching in Higher Education, 14:4, 455-459, DOI: 10.1080/13562510903050244 […]

]]> 0 ec3933dc31f16e33bf490846b6195460 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=72 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:13:22 +0000 Reflection

My tutor commented on my blog posts, describing how they ‘entice the reader with reading and raising the question, but then it then it stops’.  This succinctly reflected my own frustrations, we disc […]

]]> 0 2c544afab728546c7271fba53e516c66 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=68 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:21:14 +0000 What does ChatGPT ‘think’?

As an AI language model, ChatGPT has the potential to transform the way we teach and learn. It can provide educators with a powerful tool for engaging students and facilitating […]

]]> 0 8c73698c9d27f4857ed56a26ad1f5d9b Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=67 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:34 +0000 I tell ya that’s entertainment, that’s entertainment

“The cultural values are male; for a woman to say a man is funny is the equivalent of a man saying that a woman is pretty. Also, humor is largely aggressive a […]

]]> 0 148acf99cfc2868d94076660dd9baea3 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=66 Mon, 20 Mar 2023 22:04:42 +0000 ” Compassion means the noticing of social or physical distress to others and the commitment to reduce or prevent that distress”. Gilbert 2017:189

How can we make our assessment and feedback practices mor […]

]]> 0 a07936245e4dbc9c7795f9ba979ddab1 Donald McCrory posted a new activity comment https://relearning.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2023/02/06/potentiality-actuality-transcendence-immanence/#comment-6 Sun, 12 Mar 2023 12:15:29 +0000 Comprehensive account our first cohort session, reviewing quotes from well know academic practitioners and writers. The writing is methodical and clear, particularly impressive when describing transcending from the day’s activities to thoughts into other texts.

I share the honesty expressed in your initial dismissive reaction to the ‘…Read more

In reply to - Shade Abdul wrote a new post on the site Re-Learning Quotes of the day For our first cohort session, we reviewed some quotes from well know academic practitioners and writers, and asked to select in quotes that […] ]]> 3481e8ac2f3166be2bbcfa25871f3cde Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=61 Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:08:04 +0000 Object Based Learning (OBL) experiential student-centred, learning approach ‘involves the active integration of objects into the learning environment’ (Chatterjee, Hannan and Thomson, 2015, p.1).

How inc […]

]]> 0 c157cbd7b0b977ffaafaf3fba651e1f1 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=57 Sun, 05 Mar 2023 19:07:42 +0000 First cohort session, 25.02.2023, placed in small groups we were asked to review and select quotes presented to us from well know academics, writers and practitioners.  We selected:

8. While risk-taking is […]

]]> 0 3b549059df37c65cd2bc652b4f36d2aa Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=51 Sun, 05 Mar 2023 13:37:02 +0000 “The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world u […]

]]> 0 8fc5ace896d7768482a575b5a4f99b02 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=43 Wed, 22 Feb 2023 10:12:48 +0000 Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.– Margaret Mead

What is the value of education, increasingly students enquire how do I achieve, rather than what can I learn to expand critical t […]

]]> 1 40442b9cee23519bc377ec9677ed3531 Donald McCrory changed their profile picture https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/activity/p/493041/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:27:36 +0000 0 77fa02ef605009f0323880e41627eec9 Donald McCrory wrote a new post on the site Donald McCrory PGCert https://donaldmccrorypgcert.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:38:32 +0000 Hello virtual world, welcome to My Blog, my name is Donald McCrory, I am an Associate Lecturer and lead a vertical design studio on the BA Architecture course at Central Saint Martins . The themes and sites chosen […]

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