The Learning Development Project
In the Learning Development Project, conversation is the key to unlocking disciplinary scholarship. We interview the writers and thinkers whose work has shaped and continues to influence the Learning Development field today.
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Josh Thorpe: supporting student agency (opens the original)
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If LD were a publication, what kind of publication would it be? For Josh Thorpe, the obvious answer is ‘comic book.’ Comics, like LD, bring a sense of friendly approachability, of informality, of something that exists between one thing and another – like third space. And like LD, comics can allow for a new perspective on an issue, acknowledging both the cognitive and the emotional experience of learning. When we create spaces where learning is fun and doable, we support student agency by buildin
Silvina Bishopp-Martin: the language of learning development (opens the original)
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Learning Development, as a form of labour in higher education, is part of a complex ecosystem that has a huge impact on our professional identity. Our values, the expectations we have for our role (along with those our managers have for us), our positioning - structural as well as relational - within our institutions and the work we do, all contribute to the professional practice of learning development. Key to that practice, for Silvina Bishopp-Martin, is the language and the discourse surround
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