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Learning & Teaching Contexts

Learning & Teaching Contexts

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A reflective photo-essay of my own learning & teaching contexts. You can read more about why I created this photo-essay here http://fridgefullofthought.blogspot.com/2014/08/reflective-photo-essay.html

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Learning & Teaching Contexts

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My learning and teaching contexts are both broad and varied. As I move through my life, from one day to the next, I cannot help but learn and as I learn I cannot help but teach,

although my teaching is not always structured, and my learning is seldom formal.

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I learn through observation....

Observing termite behaviour at a field site in Tygerberg Nature Reserve in the Western Cape of South Africa

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...and teach by demonstration.

Undergraduates learning how to photograph agarose gels to visualise PCR products.

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I learn from backboards....

Notes from a talk on the long-term negative genetic effects of stress on young children.

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...and teach on computers.

Resources loaded onto the Vula site for the Write Science course I co-facilitated at the University of Cape Town (UCT).

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I learn from academics....

Interviewing Dr Emese Bordy (right) with Vera Frith (left), as part of the Integrated Literacies for Learning in Science (ILLS) research project.

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....and teach to children.

Pointing out interesting fauna and flora to my daughter on a nature walk, just outside the town of Barrydale in the Tradouw Valley, South Africa

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I learn at conferences...

Inaugural lecture at the Higher Education Learning & Teaching Association of South Africa (HELTASA) Conference, 2012.

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...and teach in consultations.

A one-to-one consultation with a postgraduate student in the UCT Writing Centre.

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I learn in seminar rooms...

A regular Friday seminar in the department of Molecular & Cell Biology at UCT.

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...and teach in classrooms.

A teaching opportunity during the s.e.a.Teach course.

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I learn from papers...

A journal article describing a multilocus phylogeny of the world Sycoecinae fig wasps (Cruaud et al., 2013).

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...and teach with pictures.

Visual teaching aids used to describe the process of PCR.

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I learn from one...

A meeting with my supervisor and mentor, Dr Colleen O’Ryan.

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....and teach to many.

HUB1011F students doing a written exercise during one of my academic literacy lectures at UCT.