Photograph of students in a fashion and textiles teaching studio, activity includes students working on patterns and discussing ideas.
Annual NTF Symposia

Promoting friendships in first-year university students: creating a community

Buddy Penfold; Laurie Truscott; Nicholas Rodgers from De Montfort University  We are academics from De Montfort University, in the School of Fashion and Textiles, teaching studio based, practical creative subjects. The students learn through active learning, constructivism pedagogy (Hamer and Van Rossum, 2010) and working as a community of practice (Wenger, 2010).  Context for this… Continue reading Promoting friendships in first-year university students: creating a community

Photograph of the author and some panellists during the Innovation and Impact panel at the ANTF Symposium 2023
Annual NTF Symposia

Community, connectedness, collaboration: Reflections on being authentically ‘WISER’ at the ANTF2023 symposium

Julie Hulme (NTF 2016) is the Deputy Chair of the Committee for the Association of National Teaching Fellows, and Professor of Psychology Education at Nottingham Trent University On 20th and 21st April 2023, the Association of National Teaching Fellows (ANTF) met in person for our first annual symposium since the pandemic at De Montfort University… Continue reading Community, connectedness, collaboration: Reflections on being authentically ‘WISER’ at the ANTF2023 symposium