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Case study: The postgraduate educational environment at the University of Bristol Dental School Case study
This case study has been completed as part of a 2022/23 Education Development Project.
Context
The University of Bristol Dental School currently hosts 4 post graduate training (PGT) programmes for 65 students. Two of the programmes are full time (DDS … Continue reading...
Metaphorically speaking!: Metaphors and educational research (Part 2)
In my previous blog I explained how metaphors offer a way of making that which is unfamiliar or hard to understand appear more familiar and knowable. In this blog, I’d like to continue this discussion of the role of metaphors … Continue reading...
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Education for Sustainable Development: visit to Embercombe
In springtime of this year 40 students and staff took part in an exciting sustainability-focused field trip to a 50-acre rewilding site in Devon. Embercombe is a largely off-grid education center which runs experiential workshops related to environmental issues such … Continue reading...
BILT Briefing Issue 108
As many of you will be aware, October is Black History Month. Every year, the same question emerges – why are we only choosing to recognise Black history in October? Black history is history and therefore should be recognised all … Continue reading...
Metaphorically speaking!: Metaphors and educational research (Part One)
Our family recently returned from holidays, and on the outward and returning flight my three year old daughter was fascinated by the safety sheet she found in the seat pocket. She looked intently at the images, trying to piece together … Continue reading...
Teaching literature: who knows what’s going to happen?
To many of us in Modern Languages, literature seems almost made for teaching. Here’s why.
People outside the Arts are sometimes disdainful of subjects that never seem to arrive at conclusive answers and spend endless time defining and re-defining their … Continue reading...
“I look forward to marking essays”
“I look forward to marking essays,” says Dietmar Wetzel.
Those of us who’ve been here a while will know that discussions about marking can feel like a tug of war. The best response to changing attitudes is to build flexibility … Continue reading...
Assessing Authentically: Queering Sexuality and Gender
This is a third-year optional unit led by Rosie Nelson in SPAIS. This unit offers an introduction into relevant issues and theory to explore contemporary sociological conversations around minoritized sexualities and genders – specifically, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer … Continue reading...
Publishing a book in a year – September 2023
Over the last two days I welcomed into my classroom 500 new students. They are new to University, and teaching first years is also new to me. I have a feeling of great anticipation and excitement, mingled with that fear … Continue reading...