Category: Unit 2: Inclusive Practices
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IP Unit: Reflective Report
Introduction This reflective report outlines the development and critical evaluation of a inclusive pedagogical intervention I designed for first year MA Performance: Screen students; a Manifesto for Inclusive Filmmaking Practices workshop. The development of this intervention has been informed by my learning throughout this unit, and how I have applied this to the specificities of…
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Blog Post 3: Race
“How can I become something I can’t see?” (Sadiq, 2023). Asif Sadiq raises a crucial point in the conversation around diversity, equity, and inclusion: current efforts often fail to deliver the transformative change we claim to want. DEI training is frequently limited by the very biases it seeks to challenge, sometimes reinforcing assumptions rather than…
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IP Unit: Intervention Plan
My proposed intervention is designed for first year MA Performance: Screen students at Central Saint Martins, as part of Unit 4A, which explores community and collaboration in filmmaking practices. During this unit, students work with external partners to create films. The organisations they collaborate with include older people at Age UK Lewisham and Southwark, queer…
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Blog Post 2: Faith, Religion and Belief
On starting this unit, the area I felt most apprehensive about engaging with was faith, religion and belief. This stems from challenging personal experiences around religion, specifically Christianity, in education settings. I grew up in a non-religious household, but with culturally Catholic heritage on my mum’s side, as she is Italian. My parents never baptised…
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Blog Post 1: Disability
When considering inclusive practices around disability, I am inclined to approach it through the lens of the ‘social model of disability’ (Oliver, 1983), which argues that people are disabled not by their impairments, but by the societal barriers around them. These barriers are rooted in systems designed to benefit those in positions of power and…