"It was just too much": Exploring the learner’s experience in Fine Art crits

McCartney, Ella and Lake, Fiona (2018) "It was just too much": Exploring the learner’s experience in Fine Art crits. Learning and Teaching in Action, 13 (1). pp. 49-68. ISSN 1477-1241

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Abstract

This study employs discourse analysis and showcases the voice of the learner to discover the experiences of the Fine Art critique (crit) in relation to Boud’s (2001) approach to peer learning. Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, the following questions are examined: What is the experience of a crit from the learner’s perspective? What can be put in place by facilitators to improve crit participation? The data illustrate that group size, the role of the facilitator and how various learning models are performed or resisted by the cohort can affect learner confidence.