myblog | Michael Breakey | Activity https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/members/20043720/activity/ Activity feed for Michael Breakey. Mon, 25 May 2026 02:56:24 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 485ea2803716ce4ab18e0a89fa3c0d17 Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=64 Sun, 17 Oct 2021 13:50:23 +0000 I have been looking into appreciative inquiry as a method (or should that be a methodology?) suited to my SIP. Catherine very kindly pointed toward Appreciative Inquiry at our last tutorial, suggesting that it […]

]]> 0 f413556228950e7035903e0af2db43c8 Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=63 Mon, 11 Oct 2021 08:05:07 +0000 So, I have embarked on the odyssey that is the SIP.  I must confess that I find it all overwhelming.  Starting with making a choice of subject, and deciding on how focussed the inquiry should be.  Next readi […]

]]> 0 e3a95db1156b4fc77b322f9b9b3a1ede Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=54 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:29:06 +0000 The Performance program at CSM consists of 7 courses that use a number of performance spaces and workshop facilities to make work.   These courses are very much practice based and I as a technical practitioner ve […]

]]> 0 a6391c2a4a6cb942eb4cdf7f203c0216 Michael Breakey commented on the post, Race and the Pedagogical Space, on the site Something original http://somethingoriginal.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2021/07/16/race-and-the-pedagogical-space/#comment-11 Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:25:52 +0000 Timi,
I enjoyed reading your thoughtful comments. I agree with what you have said, particularly with your comments on the Contact Hypothesis. I think that this is what I enjoy about CRT. It cuts through the […]

]]> 77f145ab550ce9c7996786fcc10c1131 Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=53 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 08:07:57 +0000 SON Website

I find the SON website particularly notable for its huge scope.  There is so much!  The richness of this resource changes the way that it might be used in my mind.  This is  a library, an alterna […]

]]> 0 193c32f34703c7a81e3d3ce36b0889a2 Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=52 Mon, 31 May 2021 10:42:08 +0000 As an older White man, I am very much the traditional stereotype of a technician.  My team at CSM in the Performance Program is more widely diverse, including men, women, people with differing racial/ethnic b […]

]]> 0 f1a864ac71e8bcb96aa2bf1082cbd9cf Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=48 Sun, 23 May 2021 17:02:45 +0000 Religion, Belief and Faith identities website

I find that this website deals with faith in a largely academic and conceptual way.  I am a technician so interact on a more practical, physical level with s […]

]]> 0 a7aab1abc74ee422ada612d9dcadb216 Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=44 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 11:41:51 +0000 Christine Sun Kim – A film

A really fascinating film about the work of artist Christine Sun Kim.  She makes sound art and is  hearing impaired.  The film shows her working process creating visualised sonic […]

]]> 0 5d684bf67bcfccf11f5b95b6523443bc Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=40 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 06:16:13 +0000 I very much wanted to honour the assignment of using an object in the exercise and decided on use of our screen as I knew that we would all have one in front of us. It occured to me that an exercise based around […]

]]> 0 814adedb7a528c3e4bdbaa922df21728 Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=38 Sun, 11 Apr 2021 14:28:35 +0000 We had been asked to prepare a twenty minute microteaching session and then to be prepared to receive ten minutes of feedback from our colleagues. Time was on my mind from the beginning of preparation for […]

]]> 0 d8f316dec663b27cc27105fdbf0bda5e Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=33 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 10:27:02 +0000 I have found that throughout the first weeks of this course I have framed my experience through the lens of a technician…. because I am one. I have found myself looking at the range of subjects discussed in […]

]]> 0 f683cca3e86af4310422467d4f2e619f Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=37 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 07:40:58 +0000 A very rich and active session today. The topic, affective pedagogy, really resonates with everyone. I suppose this is because we are a caring bunch.

A great deal of discussion centred around one of our […]

]]> 0 bdebf52c8fbcd25f19e7d10d0b49dd56 Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=36 Wed, 03 Feb 2021 08:57:18 +0000 Loved reading about play and how it relates to art. Vilhauer is distilling Gadamer’s thesis in this chapter of his/her book. Coming from performance, the notion of Play is crucial to not only the process but […]

]]> 0 ed7762aef11656f8a54c67a47100469b Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=34 Sat, 09 Jan 2021 14:52:36 +0000 Our first taste of course content has been engaging and thought provoking. It has provoked several thoughts in me! It was somewhat strange being given a macroscopic look at the structures of higher education. […]

]]> 0 3d06027901cf7072d6aa1cb48e1353c0 Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=7 Wed, 30 Dec 2020 11:04:46 +0000 I am doing some background reading and starting with “Learning to Teach in Higher Education (Ramsden). Only just in the first few chapters but hitting on things that are worth recording. Chapter 3 “What […]

]]> 0 b16ade49b51b67ed17f5b51bc58980f3 Michael Breakey wrote a new post on the site Michael Breakey's PG Cert Blog https://mcbreakey.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=1 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:02:21 +0000 Well, here I go stepping out into the unknown! Stepping out of my comfort zone.  It has been some 35 years since I last took an academic course, so feeling a bit rusty but hope that it will all come back like […]

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