Practice | Praxis
Researching
•Educational Practice (new pedagogies) in Creative | Media •Professional Practice (new modalities) in Creative | Media•“Habitus convergence” of educational and professional practices
Impact: Critical Praxis
Current Projects and Publications
• Cohort cultures in creative and media• Media literacies and technology / holistic approaches / childhood • Digital media production and learning in the primary sector • Creative industries and gendered practices • Mediated pedagogies • Training media educators in developing countries • Cross-platform media engagement • Curation pedagogy | Making Learning in Creative Arts and Media | Disruptive Media Education • Social media and innovation • Teaching coding as a language • Doing Text after the subject• Games as authorless literature• Games for critical literacy • Gaming and psychology • Media and social development / technology and not for profit education / e-learning and social equality • New approaches to teaching advertising practice • Praxis as learning in media production• Applying computational thinking to the teaching of computer programming• The construction of student voice in FE media • Pedagogies for creative entrepreneurship • Reflexivity and learning in FE media • Low tech media literacy, youth, voice and civic engagement – UK and European contexts • Digital ethnography as a pedagogic approach
New Opportunities
Strategy (1): Outreach Successes
Collaboration (BU)
Networking and Profile (international)
Collaboration (external)
Strategy (2): Income: The Challenge
New models for PGT in development and ‘leaner’ delivery
PGR and new Ed D - sustainable
Role in CEL for generic Prof Doc model
New short course partnerships
Significant bidding activity and consortia partnerships
Speculative pilot work – eg Spirit of 13
Digital learning tools and publishing – new Media Producer