The need for Innovative Service

Design behind Teaching Excellence Frameworks

Prof Vicky GunnGlasgow School of Art

The lure and lair of metrics

Metrics

How needs to be underpinned by:

• Managing ‘solutionism’

• Navigating the ‘rhetoric of reaction’

• Embracing preferred possibilities pragmatically

Techniques of Relation (TOR) (Manning & Massumi, 2014)

• Formalised process of interaction

• Conceptualised as ecosystem rather than mechanism

• Process focused rather than end point / output

Change as primarily a

creative process

Materials for excellence:Crafting TOR

• Critical thinking & speculative pragmatism

• Collaborative action

• Relational ethics and orientations

What does this mean for:

• Institutional engagement with teaching enhancement

• Disciplinary critical self-awareness

• Individual excellent teachers

• Excellent students