‘Holiploigy’ – capturing the complex and emergent nature of teaching, learning and curriculum
Thursday 24th November saw the second in a year-long series of HE Seminars, hosted by the LLI. The seminar, led by Dr Phil Wood (School of Education), was entitled: ‘Conceptualising the complexity of teaching in Higher Education – developing the case for holiploigy.’ As Phil explained, the latter term – new to those of us attending the seminar! […]
Equality and diversity: an example of Socratic Questioning
A recent LLI meeting reflecting on how we could apply the University wide Equality and Diversity training to our teaching, revealed a strong connection to criticality. To critically question the assumptions, viewpoints, power dynamics and other issues that we hold to be the accepted norm can cause us to challenge barriers around race, gender, sexual […]
A graduate’s perspective on innovations in learning and teaching
I am a recent Chemistry graduate from the University of Leicester, and I am currently working as an intern at the Leicester Learning Institute. During my first week at the LLI, I was tasked with getting to know everyone at the LLI by having an informal chat around the topic of innovation in learning […]
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