With such a pressurised workload I'm finding zero time to address reading at this time. Discussing this issue with tutor Vikki, she sent me a great academic paper that is proving very useful and valuable to this research and to my later intention for main staff films proposal to the Dean.
The paper in question was submitted to Lancaster University in 2008 as a requirement of the author's doctorate; Doctor of Philosophy. The opening paragraph of the abstract sets out just how pertinent to my research this paper will be:-
"In art and design education creative practice, being an artist or designer, is seen as central to what and how students learn. The use of practitioners to teach is viewed as an indicator of a quality experience on one hand and a source of anxiety on the other. Doubts have been expressed about whether practitioners actually enable students to learn about practice. However, very little is known about how transitions between practice and teaching are made. This study sets out to explore the experience of this relationship from practitioner tutor’s perspectives."
Shreeve, A.J. (2008). Transitions: variation in tutors’ experience of practice and teaching relations in art and design. Page 1, Abstract. Lancaster University.
This concept of transitions is very connected to my thinking in regard to how screenwork creation based courses like BA Film & Television tend to be staffed mostly by people who have transitioned in to HE teaching almost directly from industry.
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