School of Education

This session will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary debates on menstrual justice, including issues of ‘period poverty’, menstrual care and activism, the lived experience and lifecourse of menstruation and menopause, and  the place of menstrual justice across different classroom contexts. The Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act (2021) established a Scotland-wide scheme to allow anyone who needs period products to get them free of charge, including in schools, colleges and universities. While a clear policy success, questions of menstrual justice surpass bathroom and classroom provisioning, as long politicised by feminist debates and activist campaigns.  Such debates and activisms have their place in the ‘feminist classroom’ as a site of learning about the range and breadth of feminist organising. Feminist debates on and approaches to ‘menstrual justice’ suggest new ways of unlearning stigma, with conversations extending to menstrual activism, menstrual blood, menstrual products and contemporary discussions of menstruation and menopause as ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’ issues in our workplaces and educational institutions. This session thinks about why menstruation matters in creating feminist classrooms.

More information can be found on the website.

The Strathclyde Visual Arts Studio is a new facility set up to support students interested in pursuing a career in Fine Art or Design.

The University of Strathclyde and Glasgow City Council Education Department are delighted to support this course that builds on the success of The Tramway Visual Arts Studio that enabled students to gain acceptance to all of Scotland’s main art schools and other British institutions including Goldsmiths and The Royal College of Art.

Ashlaigh Byrne, Associate Lecturer and Wilma Eaton, PGDE Lecturer in Art and Design, will run the course.  It employs the unique approach, developed over many years, of teaching students a wide variety of skills, encouraging them to engage in an experimental and creative process enabling them to produce a highly individual and imaginative portfolio focussed on their specific area of interest.

The course is designed to concentrate on skills and creativity and will cover all of the main disciplinary areas including drawing and painting, printmaking, sculpture and environmental art as well as in depth support for jewellery, textiles, fashion communication design, architectural and interior design.  There will also be opportunities to consider more specialised areas including computer graphics and animation.

Students applying to higher education will have focussed support with expert guidance on upload processes, personal statements and advice on interview processes and techniques.

More information can be found on the Strathclyde Visual Arts Studio webpage.

Are you interested in developing, or strengthening an existing, method of assessment for student assignments? Perhaps you have recently designed new student assignments for modules, or perhaps you are thinking about how well your current assessment is working. If these situations describe you, this short course is for you!

More information can be found on the School of Education website.

This offering involves two interactive online sessions designed to support creative approaches to inclusion. These sessions are participatory so participants should come prepared to do some low stakes drawing, and to have their Zoom cameras switched on to unleash the power of drawing for learning and fun in your classroom.

Whether you are you a habitual drawer, doodler, or, whether you would say “but I cannae draw the curtains!” this forum might be for you. We will discuss the benefits drawing can bring to everyone’s mental wellbeing, why it is an important thinking tool for learning, and how it extends and enhances children’s literacy skills. We will discuss current research evidence on why drawing is a powerful memory tool which can be used across every curricular area. You will participate in some practical drawing activities that can be easily applied into your classroom practice and that change your perceptions about what drawing is for. This CLPL activity will be especially useful for practitioners working in multilingual classrooms, and working with learners who struggle with traditional approaches to literacy.

More information can be found on the School of Education website.

The refreshed narrative of CfE (Education Scotland, 2019), places children and young people at the heart of education, recognising relationships as fundamental to learning. This training session introduces an approach of Emotion Coaching (Gottman, 1996), which identifies that emotions matter to learning and provides examples of how this may be facilitated in practice. Grounded in theory relating to emotion regulation, Emotion Coaching offers a practical, empathic and brain-nurturing approach to supporting children’s emotions and subsequent behaviours.  This course is suitable for adults working with children who wish to move away from traditional discipline and behaviour management techniques towards an emotionally regulatory approach. 

More information on this course can be found on the School of Education website.