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June 26th, 2010 - 4:49 pm § in Teaching & Learning

The next Step for Educators

I have recently been hired at a private institution to teach a couple courses within there graphic design diploma program. During the interview process I asked some questions that in the past I would have not normally thought about, let alone think they were important. I asked about faculty development within teaching and learning, research awareness and implementation within their curricula. These questions have become more and more important for me as an educator when initiating new employment. Not only is it valuable for me to work in an environment which understands and supports research and teaching/learning development but also by raising these values to prospective institutes it raises their awareness of the shift that has happened within design education.

Just some thoughts for those looking for teaching work


January 14th, 2010 - 2:37 am § in The Other Stuff

New thoughts for 2010

Hello All! Happy New Year! With this great year coming I thought it was time to start asking some new questions. 1) Should new design teachers be put through some sort of short induction course to familiarise them with some important aspects of pedagogy which I have discussed earlier? If so how woul[...]


November 26th, 2009 - 5:32 am § in The Other Stuff

Is all hope lost?

I know I have written about this in the past but I feel I need to talk about it again. What to do…when there is almost no possible way to align your teaching (constructive alignment). Institutional forces sometimes seem to be so great that there is no way around attempting to provide a deep l[...]


November 17th, 2009 - 7:32 pm § in Exegesis

To download my exegesis…

Through this blog you may view my exegesis via the “Graphic Design Teacher Magazine” page. If you would like to download it completely, please email me a kind request at: info@designteaching.com Thank you, Roberto [...]


November 14th, 2009 - 12:03 am § in The Other Stuff

Cumulus 38° South Hemispheric Shifts Across Learning, Teaching and Research

Today, I presented my research at the Cumulus conference. I am glad I submitted my paper for this opportunity because I managed to receive good constructive feed back to help me move this research forward. This was the third conference I have presented so far and some speakers were inspiring and som[...]


September 22nd, 2009 - 9:55 am § in Exegesis

Reflection on what I wrote a day ago…

The other day, my supervisor sent me an article from Andrew McAfee’s blog (http://bit.ly/1iPv0r) called ‘How Beautiful it is, and How easily it can be broken.’ It had a profound effect on how I think about teaching design and what I wrote about earlier in my reflection. McAfee discusses an Ent[...]


September 22nd, 2009 - 9:53 am § in Exegesis

Miscommunication: Understanding my current teaching practice

It seems very ironic and strange that after working during so hard during my Masters at discovering, understanding and developing knowledge of teaching in graphic design I am currently in a teaching within an institutional environment that is in antithesis of my own research. Ahh…the revelations o[...]