Intellect

Alison Shreeve is the Director of the HEFCE funded Creative Learning in Practice Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CLIP CETL) at the University of the Arts London. The centre’s role is to enhance and disseminate successful student learning activities and to reward excellence in teaching. The centre’s activities
include developing pedagogic research in the university and investigating what is specific to learning in the disciplines of art and design. Staff development is used to share and disseminate learning from all the centre’s activities. Alison has over twenty years experience in teaching textiles and a Masters in Art Education. She is interested in research into aspects of learning within our disciplines and this includes students and tutor’s conceptions of assessment. Alison is
currently completing the doctoral programme in educational research at Lancaster University and the focus of her research is on the practitioner tutor’s experience of practice and teaching. Alison has published and presented at conferences both in the UK and internationally.

Keywords:  qualitative variation, research, design projects, visual reproducing, conceptual responses, Communities of Practice