Learning and Teaching in the Creative Disciplines The Glasgow School of Art

Overview

The Learning and Teaching in the Creative Disciplines from The Glasgow School of Art explores and addresses the professional practices of teaching and supporting learners, including principles of inclusive learning design and teaching; assessment and feedback; student support; evaluation and scholarship. 

Centred within a studio-based educational context the programme critically considers the role of creativity in learning and teaching, exploring inclusive teaching and learning strategies and environments, including the role of technology and blended learning tools, to support effective learning. 

The programme further explores concepts of inclusive curriculum supporting students to design and facilitate effective and inclusive programmes of study. The programme culminates with a capstone investigation into students’ own teaching practice, supporting students to design and implement a systematic scholarly enquiry to enhance learning and teaching within their context.

The programme provides students with the opportunity to:

• Develop their critical capacities as reflective and reflexive higher education teachers and/or supporters of student learning;

• Examine and explore the role of creativity in teaching, learning and assessment in the creative disciplines;

• Critically reflect upon their own professional development, integrating educational scholarship and enquiry into their teaching practice.

• Design effective and inclusive teaching, assessment and feedback activities, courses and programmes which meets the needs of learners, and the wider higher education and creative community.

• Cultivate their knowledge and understanding of the impact and inter-relationships of, quality assurance and enhancement; research and scholarship; policy and practice upon higher education and their own practices in the creative disciplines.