Our #arthistory PDD panel on Teaching and education featured @LeniaKouneni who is 1 of only 2 permanent lecturers in art history at @univofstandrews and before this held multiple short-term and fixed term contracts.
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She finished her PhD in 2009 and had a short career break in 2012 to have children. Lenia sought out her education-focused position which is teaching focused rather than research focused.
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Teaching-only roles can be perceived as lesser but perceptions are shifting and they are a serious career path – TEF was introduced in 2017 to assess the quality of teaching.
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There are clear routes for promotion now. If you are interested, look into the AdvanceHE Fellowship and seek out relationships with any centres for education research at you institution. advance-he.ac.uk/fellowship
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Think seriously about art historical pedagogy and practice – how we teach art history is important & can change the field! Think about & form your own teaching philosophy and methodology – job applications often ask you to talk about & you must be able to position yourself.
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Look for grants and funding that support students’ learning to help you develop projects and new seminars or classes.
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Object based learning is a great way to teach! Objects can provide great starting points for seminars and prompt questions around broader issues of gender.
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The pandemic pushed learning and teaching online and pushed the creation of digital tools within physical collections – engaging and interactive experience “Exhibit”.st-andrews.ac.uk/collections/ex…
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Staff and students can used the digital collections to create interactive presentations and can be very useful for visual analysis exercises!
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