Creative Practice

All things related to Creative Practice. Most notably this includes DLP’s personal passions of Creative Writing, Music & Sound, Audio Production, and most other Creative Media disciplines that cross over into any of these areas.

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Learning & Teaching Philosophy and Practice Part 5a

DLP’s Framing of Feedback in a Communicative Approach to Learning & Teaching – Formal and Informal; and Assumptions of Learners Continuing on from my previous blogs (2020a) in this series, I present an update of my Learning & Teaching Philosophy + Practice. Feedback – Informal In a practical-based HE Learning and Teaching environment such as SAE…

Learning & Teaching Philosophy and Practice Part 4b

My revised Learning & Teaching Philosophy Statement Layer 1b: My rearticulated approach to Learning & Teaching practice Continuing on from my previous blog (2020a) in this series, I present below my revised Learning & Teaching Philosophy. This development emerged from an ongoing professional development commitment; specifically from my application process to the Advanced HE organisation –…

Learning & Teaching Philosophy & Practice Part 4a

Revising my Learning & Teaching Philosophy Statement Layer 1a: Revisiting and rearticulating my approach to Learning & Teaching practice Continuing on from my previous circa 2015 blogs in this series, I have reflected upon, and revised my Learning & Teaching Philosophy. This development emerged from an ongoing professional development commitment; specifically from my application process to the…

Doctoral Pilot Study – Part 24b

Research Study Abstract The aim of this Doctor of Creative Industries Research Project is to investigate both my DIY music and sound-making practice and my self as a practitioner during the process of creating and producing a cultural artefact (EP).  My research study is designed to be a multi-method qualitative study: a practice-based, arts practice…

Who I am……

(Page 2017a) Me, myself, I – the multi-facetted/multi-dimensional practitioner As described in my blog Research Practitioner Part 16 (Page 2017b), I am a multi-facetted/multi-dimensional practitioner – a practitioner across multiple practices of education & learning, research study commitments, creative practice, professional consulting practice and family responsibilities. I concluded that: “All of my practice informs my self; and my…

Doctoral Pilot Study – Part 17a

(Page 2014a) This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2014b) for the previous blog. Reflecting on 2014 …. My approach to practice was so different to that of my recently recruited peers. As part of the creative media studies stream, learners were now to be immersed in specific creative media lexis and theory, via tasks that…

Creative Practitioner – Part 246

Doctorate of Creative Industries Project 1 (Self Reflection 2016) This blog is a continuation of a series. See here (Page 2017a) for the previous blog. Observations of my developing perspective Based on my observations of practice over the course of this doctoral program, in pure quantitative terms: the number of elements of my Praxis has increased…

Doctoral Pilot Study – Part 15a

Doctorate of Creative Industries Project 1 (Research 2016) Precis Continuing on from my previous blogs in this series; as I am now into my third year of my post-graduate academic research study,  I felt motivated to revisit and develop my values, goals and beliefs for both my self and my music practice. It is now early- Year 3, with the…

Education & Learning – the first 10,000 hours….

The first 10,000 hours of practice is everything….. “10,000 hours. That is: 40 hours per week, for 48 weeks a year, for 5.2 years. A full-time employment workload excluding time where the aspiring practitioner is observing, or being talked through a task by a professional practitioner.  A full-time employment workload, excluding training periods where the aspiring practitioner is doing…