Topic outline
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Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance
Welcomes you to its Open Educational Resource
REFLECTING on LEARNING and TEACHING
in the PERFORMING ARTS (RLTPA)
Since 1950 Rose Bruford College has been at the forefront of vocational and practice-based theatre training in the UK. We now teach thirteen undergraduate degrees in performing arts related subjects and offer three postgraduate programmes. A focus of our College research is pedagogic practice in the performing arts and this resource has developed from our work.
The Open Educational Resource is intended to support and enhance the professional practice of those involved in Learning and Teaching in the Performing Arts in Higher Education. It is also intended to support students on programmes of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and teachers who wish to apply for either Associate Fellowship or Fellowship of the UK Higher Education Academy.
We hope that you will enjoy learning from others in your field through active engagement with the resource and we welcome you to Rose Bruford College.
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How to enjoy and benefit from this resource
As you enter the site you will find eight study areas. Together these areas cover the major topics of study on accredited UK Learning and Teaching programmes. As you engage with all eight study areas you will have opportunities to build a portfolio of evidence, a Reflective Portfolio, to help you to meet the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) necessary to apply for Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.
Whilst it is not imperative to work your way systematically from 1 to 8 of the Study Areas, we strongly recommend that you start by entering Study Area 1 as this explores what it means to become a critically reflective practitioner. Critical reflection on theory and practice underpins the entire pedagogy of this resource. It is therefore recommended that you begin your Reflective Portfolio as you consider the resources in this area and discover what critical reflection means to you in your learning and teaching context. After this you might chose to engage with the Study Areas according to your preference.
The eight Study Areas, like the UKPSF, have been designed to cover all aspects of learning and teaching support. The resources you select and the level of UK Higher Education Academy Fellowship you wish to apply for will depend on your specific role within Higher Education.
The UK Professional Standards Framework is explained in the document below. We have noted at the end of each Study Area the UKPSF Activities, Core Professional Values and Core Knowledge areas that are related to the material and Reflection Prompts in order to help you organise and cross reference your portfolio. In entering each area you are encouraged to respond to the material you encounter, to reflect on how it relates to your own practice and to note your thoughts, recording them in writing, sound or visual means as a part of your Reflective Portfolio.
The Four Rooms
This resource has been designed with contemporary research on learning styles in mind. You will find reference to this research in the first study area of the resource. As you enter each area you will be introduced to the study topic of the area and be invited to enter its four rooms, just as you might enter rooms on our College campus. Each room contains a different type of resource to cater for diverse learners. They are arranged alphabetically and you are invited to browse through them and to select what is most appropriate for your needs. You can select material depending on:
- your preferred learning style
- your subject discipline
- your mood or
- the time you have available.
The Reading Room, as its title suggests, contains mainly text-based resources and recommended reading. It is here that you will find full articles and links to academic web sites.You will also find suggestions for further reading.
The Visual Resource Room contains video clips of teaching, classroom and studio activities, lectures with animation and interviews with artists.
The Case Study Room offers a variety of examples of practice and you are encouraged to explore here to find the case studies which most closely match your subject area or pedagogic need.
The Reflection Room is where you are invited to engage actively with the resources so that you take ownership of and responsibility for your own learning to enhance your specific teaching context. A series of Reflection Prompts in this room encourage you to reflect upon your practice as a teacher and supporter of learning in Higher Education.The Reflection Prompts are not prescriptive and most prompt you to compare or reflect on the resources and to consider how you might apply new concepts or methods in your teaching context. You might like to look at the prompts before or after engaging with the resources in the other rooms.
We hope that you will enjoy utilising this Open Educational Resource to enhance your pedagogic practice in the Performing Arts.
What is an Open Educational Resource?
Reflecting on Learning and Teaching in the Performing Arts is an Open Educational Resource. OERs are digital materials that can be used, re-used and repurposed for teaching, learning, research and more; made freely available online through open licenses such as Creative Commons. OER include a varied range of digital assets from course materials, content modules, collections, and journals to digital images, music and video clips.
This OER is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA). This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon our work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit us and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on ours must carry the same license.
The Open Educational Resource Team:
Professor Kathy Dacre (Project Director), Cordelia Bryan, (Educational Consultant), David Chadderton, Andrew Eglinton, David Matthews, Joe Murray, Frank Trew, Gail Ellis, Rafael Mazzillo and Marc Wilson.
The team would like to thank the students on the 2010 Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Theatre and Performing Arts programme at Rose Bruford College who helped in the creation of this resource.
Proceed to the Study Area Index »
See an overview of the 8 Study Areas
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