myblog | Asuf Ishaq | Activity https://myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/members/18011369/activity/ Activity feed for Asuf Ishaq. Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:31:52 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=12.2.0 en-GB 30 hourly 2 edd3f75ca1b575559c6ed45c43c79852 Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=66 Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:29:06 +0000 I am interested in exploring the relationship with architecture interior spaces and students sense of belonging and comfort in their spaces of learning, from studio spaces, workshops, lecturer theatre study […]

]]> 0 0c6763eac80279c0f5b800bfe2c991df Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=64 Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:27:45 +0000 Ethics form – DONEGet feedback and signed off Ethics form – DONEFocus group interviews and tour – DONE3rd student interview – DONEDigital Survey – DONECapture outputs – DONECollate feedback – DONEPresentat […]

]]> 0 d1dc7c997e2966b806bda0c60e35a89a Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=63 Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:27:23 +0000 Audio recordings, then made into transcripts with Otter App.

Focus Group interviews with 2 students, for 2.5 hours and a buildings tour  Interview with student 3 for 1hr on TeamsSurvey Microsoft forms, 7 […]

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]]> 0 12839180f2ace3a090a54760da87fa23 Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=61 Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:26:35 +0000 Students 1&2, I had in-depth focus group interviews and a walk through building tour, I recorded the conversation on an audio recorder.

This student 3 below, I had in-depth conversation on Teams, I […]

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]]> 0 5a3f03649ba73d83b518582e5978b5b1 Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=59 Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:25:16 +0000 Interviews results

Spatial experience is connected to emotion, feeling and mood, this provides the sense of belongingThe importance of an art college campus as place of comfort with personal working […]

]]> 0 037374280f500ff55925392fb0a1e852 Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=57 Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:24:04 +0000 Paul, A, M. (2021) The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

Wong, B. (2023) Exploring the spatial belonging of students in higher education, Studies in Higher Education

Corazzo, J. […]

]]> 0 66323c060378eabc3a00cfaa99922d85 Asuf Ishaq posted a new activity comment https://19040524.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/07/19/blog-activity-three-race/#comment-12 Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:07:11 +0000 Unconscious biases as a place where people can find themselves because of their upbringing and the communities they were raised in. I have been thinking about this a lot since 2020 the death of George Floyd. IO was working in Whitechapel Gallery where an anti-racism action was set up, the majority of gallery staff were white and Unconscious bias…Read more

In reply to - Genevieve Muwana wrote a new post on the site 19040524's blog Source: https://www.bestfunquiz.com/q/what-race-am-i-quiz Shades of Noir (SoN) resource: As my course has been going through reapproval this […] ]]> 80569132888dfe6eb3fd7240a1999c61 Asuf Ishaq posted a new activity comment https://agoldberg.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/07/05/inclusive-practices-race/#comment-9 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:22:38 +0000 In the interview, White Academia: Does this Affect You?, it is surprising, a white senior academic staff was nervous and out of place for the interview. It is revealing how distant this person was to students of ethnically minority backgrounds. The senior staff is white, and her social environment is white friends and colleagues. Very little…Read more

In reply to - Andrew Goldberg wrote a new post on the site agoldberg's blog Finnegan and Richard’s 2016 report, “Retention and Attainment in the Disciplines of Art and Design,” provides urgent statistical data for the need […] ]]> 29dbaa48a46fcf1a914c99560224698e Asuf Ishaq posted a new activity comment https://agoldberg.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/07/05/inclusive-practices-race/#comment-10 Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:22:36 +0000 In the interview, White Academia: Does this Affect You?, a senior white academic was nervous and out of place for the interview. It is revealing how distant this person was to students of ethnically minority backgrounds. The senior staff is white, and her social environment is white friends and colleagues. Very little knowledge about the students…Read more

In reply to - Andrew Goldberg wrote a new post on the site agoldberg's blog Finnegan and Richard’s 2016 report, “Retention and Attainment in the Disciplines of Art and Design,” provides urgent statistical data for the need […] ]]> c673769d810e0b69a538a2d9181c5b6c Asuf Ishaq posted a new activity comment https://joanneleunginclusivepractice.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/06/29/not-just-contact/#comment-13 Mon, 24 Jul 2023 23:55:50 +0000 Interesting perspective Joanne, my understanding is Tapper is saying some intergroup biases are born out of the perceived hierarchy and power, these need challenging, the education environment is a place of transformation. If moderated well by a tutor this can work.

In reply to - Fung Yan Leung wrote a new post on the site Inclusive Practices Unit The contact hypothesis, initially proposed by Hahn Tapper, suggests that positive interactions in a structured environment can help resolve […] ]]> 872894335ed0c17f7b8837fc734fc332 Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=39 Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:18:04 +0000 Hahn Tapper describes Social Justice Theory where students’ identities are interwoven with each other and all of the education environments students encounter. Not all of the class and teachers share the same s […]

]]> 1 2f18790370215d04db1d142cdf93da8c Asuf Ishaq posted a new activity comment https://joanneleunginclusivepractice.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/05/31/i-believe/#comment-4 Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:32:23 +0000 Your reflections on religion are interesting, questioning refraining from certain foods mainly meats. As your friend, I too come from a Muslim upbringing, and pork was something to fear from an early age, I tried it at a barbecue and it was no big deal for me. I am now a vegetarian/pescatarian. Old scriptures warn us of bad meat hygiene and deadly…Read more

In reply to - Fung Yan Leung wrote a new post on the site Inclusive Practices Unit I identify as an atheist, but after listening to Kwame Anthony Appiah’s thought-provoking work, “Mistaken Identities,” I find myself intrigued […] ]]> 45bd842fb02fa68c85f6863210887538 Asuf Ishaq posted a new activity comment https://joanneleunginclusivepractice.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/04/28/passive-inclusiveness-exclusiveness/#comment-5 Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:32:01 +0000 Your experience was insightful, I as a teacher haven’t come across a situation like that. Unclear if a student has autism or something else. And what is a good support process for the student and teacher in this situation/crisis?.

I know in recent years it has been very difficult to get appointments to be diagnosed on the NHS because of the…Read more

In reply to - Fung Yan Leung wrote a new post on the site Inclusive Practices Unit Our disability service system is passive. The current system is a giant mechanical system with only one gear providing the force, and a […] ]]> d495fa6b0d13a3edb95ae782fdfe462b Asuf Ishaq posted a new activity comment https://amyurry.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/05/29/faith/#comment-11 Tue, 13 Jun 2023 10:51:59 +0000 I found Saffron Mustafa’s interview really interesting and insightful, especially about her and her mother’s relationship with religion and creativity (probably with Western Art). Saffron’s mother struggled to combine Islam and Art as a student when she converted. There is a more conservative view in Islam that people should not emulate God’s…Read more

In reply to - Amy Urry wrote a new post on the site Amy's PG Cert Artist: Bridget Crutchfield, published in Shades of Noir ‘Higher Power: Religion, Faith, Spirituality and Belief I chose two articles from the SoN […] ]]> 5033dcd1f6c2109c4b44bab6ddaa1c57 Asuf Ishaq posted a new activity comment https://amyurry.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2023/05/05/lets-listen-with-our-eyes-and-not-just-with-our-ears-christine-sun-kim/#comment-10 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:13:17 +0000 I found Christine Sun Kim art practising powerful too, that she felt sound belonged to others and that sound wasn’t her property to own. In her art practice, she is powerfully owning it and being creative with it. I think this demonstrates that there as a disabled person there are no limits to creativity and expressing one’s identity. It also…Read more

In reply to - Amy Urry wrote a new post on the site Amy's PG Cert ‘Let’s listen with our eyes and not just with our ears.’ Christine Sun Kim All of these resources are thought-provoking. Khairani Barokka’s piece is f […] ]]> bdc7602c3dd39a0573e8eb7cad2553e6 Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=37 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 10:44:53 +0000 Through these resources, I have a new perspective on disability and experiences of disability. And the activism that disabled people are engaged with. What also struck me was the invisibility of a disability, how […]

]]> 3 9e04ef3098da01cdb40c68106129fd96 Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=36 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:40:41 +0000 These resources outline the fluidity of religious identity. In Kwame Anthony Appiah’s lecture ‘Creed’ explains religious identity has multiple aspects, including a sense of belonging to a community and a cultu […]

]]> 1 9b42884210b13e539198d3d8c763b6e7 Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=35 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:44:22 +0000 William Kentridge interviews himself about his life as an artist 2010

]]> 0 a28f19781b3963d60f00e58c540010ee Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=33 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:37:16 +0000 On Not Knowing: How Artists Teach “Not Knowing” by Donald Barthelme 1997 On Not Knowing, How Artists ThinkCreative Accounting, Not Knowing in Talking and Mak […]

]]> 0 9d85a1c4d22fe296f8dd3ff65601dcd2 Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=22 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:44:35 +0000 In a seminar setting, I read the article by Dall’Alba, G. (2005). ‘Improving teaching: Enhancing ways of being university teachers’, in Higher Education Research & Development, 24(4), pp.361–372. This paper m […]

]]> 0 b58080a7289c0eed1ab119638301a0a5 Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=21 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:43:25 +0000 Recently, I have been thinking about my own experience as a student in art schools in England. This article interested me Coatman, A. (2016) ‘What Next for Art Schools?’, Times Higher Education, March 201 […]

]]> 0 1af66e56d264e702d6353bbb2a8931f7 Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=20 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:42:29 +0000 I was drawn to one of the suggested readings, Race and the Neoliberal University: Lessons From the Public University, By John Holmwood 2018. This chapter covers the history of Colonialism and to Neoliberalism […]

]]> 0 2081625a7024bd84ce19a528b023b798 Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=19 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:41:24 +0000 I found the ‘Object-based Learning’ event by Judy Willcocks, Jacqueline Winston-Silk & Georgina Orgill very interesting. Objects are multi-faceted, they aid in understanding complex and abstract ideas. […]

]]> 0 5ebd6ac2922da71e3fbb70fae88cdc49 Asuf Ishaq wrote a new post on the site Asuf's PgCert Blog https://asufishaqpgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=18 Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:40:03 +0000 Microteaching day It was a fun day for our Microteaching sessions, here are some photographs I manage to take, Sebastian, Smriti and Sarah M.

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