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Having worked with the design colleagues to teach first year design theory and history, my visual literacy has improved significantly. Also, having extensive sessions on whiteboards trying to find the best way to visually capture information, processes and ideas and then in turn to represent a simple but effective visuals, has taught me the power of visual communication.
So I present to you my attempts to try to reconcile the three foci into a single conceptual string. The basic idea is that education has to encompass self-identity, an understanding of community, and the responsibility of citizenship when thinking of the development of a student beyond being a worker.
The first is a linear diagram. The idea is that the development has to work in that order; one has to be achieved before the other can be.
But things are rarely that neat. Leap-frogging or overlapping is far more likely. So I thought of another diagram to visualise that.
So, I think I might a conceptual string which is about the development of those three as the higher purpose of education might work for me.
Although, I have been reading Catherine Deveny’s Use Your Words: A Myth-Busting, No-Fear Approach to Writing. And she has very different ideas to the hand wringing.