September 27, 2016
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During our Values lecture this morning, we were discussing the ideas of racism. During the presentation, we were shown the history of racism towards African/American people from the 19th century up until the present day. It was seen that racism was a big part of history and a story in particular we spoke about was […] Continue reading
September 27, 2016
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After my first values module lecture, I left inspired, calm and collected. After my first values module workshop, I left panicked, confused and hysterical. Then I laughed, cried, then laughed again and wondered why I did not realise what was really happening during this workshop. I entered the classroom to find we were being split into four […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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On the 20th September – a late Tuesday afternoon – I had my first values workshop. When I arrived to the classroom, each individual was split up into four groups of roughly ten people. I was in group four and knowing my luck, this unfortunately turned out to be the worst group to be in. […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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On Tuesday the the 20th of September all Education, social work and CLD students came together for our very first ‘values’ lecture. The lecture focused around the three levels of ‘bias’ and how to overcome these to make the unconscious conscious. We were also shown a video to exemplify how social structure plays a big […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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This time last week my modules officially started and to say I was nervous for starting my studies was an understatement. Apart the normal challenges a first year student faces in the first couple of weeks such as making friends and settling into your new home I was also worrying about how I was going […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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On Tuesday we had our first Values: Self, Society and the Professions workshop. I was in Carrie’s group, she was the person who interviewed me for this specific degree just a few months ago!! So as you can imagine I was a bit nervous. We were divided in to four groups. Carrie used our birthdays […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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I love receiving an envelope. There’s a sense of mystery and excitement when you are handed an envelope. It amazes me that something so small can hold something incredible with so much potential. You never know what you will find when you tear that seal off and look into that small space. Envelopes can hold […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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The values workshop I attended last week was deliberately structured into groups who were given more resources than others. This had an emotional impact on the unfortunate groups who were given less resources as they began to feel sad and wanted to give up. Derek deliberately gave no encouragement to these groups and this resulted […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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Last week we took part in our first workshop for this elective. I went into the room with my friends and sat with them but we were soon split in to four groups. The groups were quite large so we all told each other our names and started to chat. It was daunting just being […] Continue reading
September 26, 2016
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Last week marked the first full week of having modules, and I loved it! One of my modules is called Values: Self, Society and the Professions. On the Tuesday afternoon, we had a workshop for this module. When we arrived in the workshop we were all sat in to four groups and each group was handed […] Continue reading
September 25, 2016
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I’m sorry that this is a long story but it’s very important to me and if you reach the end, thank you very much for your time. I have always had the ambition to help vulnerable people. Seeing the improvements made in others that you assisted with, gives the most rewarding feeling. I struggle to […] Continue reading
September 25, 2016
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This week we had our very first Values workshop. I didn’t really know what to expect going into it as we had never had the experience of a workshop prior to this. When I went in I surrounded myself with familiar faces and assumed that we would be allowed to sit with who we wanted […] Continue reading
September 25, 2016
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Comments Off on My First Values Module Workshop – My Opinions!
On Tuesday 20th September, I had my very first workshop of the Values module. I found this to be a very interesting and fun first workshop of my University career. It felt like I was going into the unknown, but everyone was in the same boat as no one knew what to expect. We first got split into […] Continue reading
September 25, 2016
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Last Tuesday we had our first values workshop. I went in completely clueless as to what we would be doing for the next hour, and I was eager to find out. Carrie split us into random groups and gave us all a huge envelope. We were told to use the resources inside our envelope to […] Continue reading
September 24, 2016
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Comments Off on Three paper clips, a sticky note, an elastic band and a pencil.
Do you remember back when you were at school and there was a certain pen, pencil, rubber or ruler with the multiplications on the back of it, that almost everyone wanted to have? For me, it was Crayola’s Twistable Crayons. They were the “cool” stationary that nearly everybody wanted to have! I remember sitting in […] Continue reading
September 24, 2016
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Today our class had its first Values workshop. We were split into groups numbered 1 to 4 and duly followed Carrie’s instructions to make something to welcome a new student to the University of Dundee. At first I was oblivious to the purpose of this activity, however it soon became apparent that the groups had been given different […] Continue reading
September 23, 2016
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Comments Off on Teacher Competence and Autonomous Language-Lovin’ Learners
This year, as my elective module, I have chosen to study Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) pedagogy. As I have already mentioned in a previous blog post, I am passionate about learning languages and therefore the push of MFL in Scottish Primary Education fills me with joy and excitement. But I know this is not the […] Continue reading
September 23, 2016
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What is mathematics? Though this question is impossible to summarise in a few words, these were my responses to this question from today’s input: “mathematics is solving problems with numbers” “mathematics is universal” “mathematics is everywhere” (This was proven to us by being tasked to highlight in a newspaper wherever we saw maths. The yellow […] Continue reading
September 23, 2016
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On Tuesday we had our first values workshop, this tied into the lecture we had that morning. When I first walked in I found myself trying to go to a table that wasn’t too full nor too empty, this was fruitless. When Carrie came in we were each assigned a number between one and four. […] Continue reading
September 23, 2016
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Comments Off on And we’re off…
This week has been pretty busy. I have enjoyed it an awful lot, but it’s also made me think more than I have had to in quite a few years. Lectures have started, reading lists are becoming longer by the minute, interesting education reports seem to pop up everywhere. I think I need that reading […] Continue reading
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