Journal of Useful Investigations in Creative Education
Ray Martin sings the praises of Terry Barrett’s new book on the studio crit. Published on 30th May 2019 | Written by Ray Martin | Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash A crit is a fearsome thing. It can be ‘gladiatorial, combative and unforgiving’, says Peter Day, who found that students were fundamentally ‘fear focused’ …
This piece is an exploration into the micro and macro levels of curriculum design, starting from a fundamental building block ‘If This, Then That’. These are small component parts that progress in a logical and linear fashion into a larger concept network that aims to embody the course ethos within an Arts University and then …
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Elliot Einser’s theory of connoisseurship has been influential in the discourse around assessment of arts disciplines for forty years – and still is. It claims that judgments should be based on the fact that assessors are like connoisseurs: able to discern, discriminate and thereby identify good work, as well as being able to explain the …
