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 some were not. In any case, it helped me think about the possibilities and concerns that are contained within this project.
I was however somewhat shocked at some of the presenters understanding of pedagogy and how they are running/changing curricula. This seemed to be more prominent with educators who deal with smaller institutions rather than the universities here in Melbourne. This made me think even more that my research is well grounded and could be pushed even further. I don’t want to ’save design education’ but I do feel that it is important for all educators to at least reflect on their teaching practice.
Hemispheric Shifts Across Learning, Teaching and Research