17/01/2025
Decolonising Writing
Action or process of a state withdrawing from a former colony leaving it independent.
In essay/reflection use 1st/3rd person.
Using ‘I’ is useful, helps explain your position.
24/01/2025
The Report and Presentation
Evidence:
- Completion of 100 days/ 20 weeks of professional place,ent learning.
- Online blog maintained throughout placements, recording thoughts, comments and activities
- Individually written report of 5000 words describing and evaluating placments (+/- 10%)
- 20 minute audio/ visual presentation where you present analysis of your own personal development and learning during the placement
Assessed holistically (100% of the unit) No breakdown of grades for the different assessment evidence listed. Evidence is considered together. Tutors use their academic judgment to choose a grade for the unit as a whole.
All components need to be submitted to pass the unit.
Marked by 2-4 people
When writing don’t assume your tutor knows everything.
REPORT
- Reflection of placement year, providing industry context, describing and evaluating the placement experience within the context of the wider creative industries and speculative future.
– AUTOERHNOGRAPHIC, will have specific examples of things you did demonstrating the development of your skills.
– uses the researchers personal experiences to understand cultural, social, political phenomena. Qualitative research involving self reflection and analysis. You are the expert of your experience.
– CRSJs principles - Story based.
- Still academic, support with others academic essay. CRITICAL evaluation of the placement year, not a diary.
– Record of Challenges and Successes. Not a Rant or unsupported reflection.
What is the report?
– Reflections on your experience
- An evaluation/ comparison of placements
- An evaluation of your growth
- Overview of your role(s) and how it aligns to your own goals and future ambitions
- Overview of the industry
- An insight into what you want to do next year
- Speculative future (Final BA year and beyond)
- Reference to your positionality
- Reference to the creative attribute framework
- Reference Intellectual Property
- Reference to key arguments in your industry and its future. Eg. Paid enough, yarn, people understand the process behind cloth.
- Opinions and theories from academics or people in industry eg… quite Ann Sutton and use the books on offer to me.
Specific Examples: - Stories of specific tasks that highlight skills you have gained or developed.
- Evidence of times your learnt something new. Eg, hard or soft skills
- Achievements.
- Comparisons of practice.
- Images that support your written analysis.
Structure: Cohesive flow
- Chronological order
- Skills you have gains/ developed
- Industry areas
- Something else
- Following a series of questions provided that prompt reflection (formative assessment Qs)
10 March- Skeleton map and discuss at your spring formative
21 March- 14th April- Easter Break
6 May- Submit a draft of report
May 2025- Presentation Workshop
2 June- Essay Submission 10am
9 June- presentation week
Chapters:
- Title
- Title page
- Contents page
- Introduction
- Chapters and Headings
- Conclusion
- Bibliography HARVARD REFERENCING
PDF download of teams in file section
Presentation:
20 min audio and visual presentation where you present an analysis of your own personal development and learning during the placements.
- Reflective of your personal experience
- Own thoughts on the industry
- Recorded and shown live at your assement
- Live questions from the panel
- Reflection of SIP
Recorded: On teams and press play, panel watches it live and still expected to answer questions.
- Reflective responses to your placement experience and industry
- What might you change about the industry
- Ambitions and future plans
- SIP
- Putting your knowledge in action
NOT A READING OF YOUR REPORT
- What you have discovered about the industry
- Evaluation of your role/ ambitions ( in relation to UALs CRSJs)
- Analysis of your professional development
- Reference to key arguments happening in your industry (eg sustainability eg, wool too cheap. Not supporting local British) people expecting things to be a lot cheaper.
20 mins PowerPoint or PDF
Learning objectives:
Visit my CAF Teams on Files
Skeleton map of DPS experience so far. What do you want to talk about?
PEEL
My challenges: How have you grown from an experience? Deep reflections! How maturely and professionally do you deal with those situations. Can you understand why those challenges appeared.
Mill placements
Wallace Sewell
03/01/2025
Reflective Evaluations
DPS, Self initiated practice developing ideas
6 of my values task:
- hard working
- ambitions
- empathetic
- organised
- personable
- humour
How my family describes my values:
- Hard working
- Personable
- Determined x3
- Thoughtful x2
- Enthusiastic
- Proactive x2
- Attentive
- Responsible
- Considerate
- Respectful
- Courageous
- Fair
- Creative
- Loyal
- Kind
- Punctual
- Organised
- Creative
- Intelligent
- Inventive
- Driven
- Persistent
- Prompt
- Effective
- Tenacious
- Vigilant
I was really nice reading what people wrote about me. I think my values are very similar to what people view as my values which is nice and shows that not only am I seeing it, others are too. It made me feel quite emotional seeing all of the nice comments.
14/02/2025
Reflective evaluations
Looking back to get ahead. How do I differentiate myself then and now? Have I progressed personally, professionally, creatively? How do I understand that change? How will others perceive that change?
Understanding the difference…. Reflective practice asks ‘what’ and reflexive practice asks ‘why’
Gibbs reflective cycle
Discolls Model of reflection
Schons Reflective Model
DIEP Model of Reflective writing