These
slide shows are an example of just some of the
activities and projects
undertaken
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Rough Science
The
college offers a broad, experiential and process
orientated approach to learning. Our mission is to
bring art and science together as phenomenological
experience and to facilitate deeper and more
creative thinking processes. The purpose of the
Rough Science programme is to encourage cognitive
scientific thinking through purposeful creative
craft activity.
Through working with a practical skills curriculum, it became very clear that something was needed to help change old perceptions of working with the hands in the fields of the crafts. All too often one would hear the misconception of ‘going back to the crafts’ as a romantic escapist notion that fails to take hold of modern reality. Clearly this was a hindrance and a gross misunderstanding of a profoundly important area of education. What was needed was a name that would better define and re-orientate the student into a fuller experience of the entire process of learning
with an interrelationship of hand, heart and head (art and science).
The Rough Science component of the science programme is an in-depth exploration of the mineral, plant and animal realms together with earth, air, fire and water where students weave substance and process through their own activity. This experience provides limitless opportunities for students to engage cognitively in understanding the nature of substance and its transformation.
A Rough Science technology programme is still to be developed and implemented which will focus strongly on environmentally sustainable technology such as in solar, wind, water and earth technologies which could well become a prominent component of the research year.
SLIDESHOW
Please click on the slideshow link bellow
Rough Science
Through working with a practical skills curriculum, it became very clear that something was needed to help change old perceptions of working with the hands in the fields of the crafts. All too often one would hear the misconception of ‘going back to the crafts’ as a romantic escapist notion that fails to take hold of modern reality. Clearly this was a hindrance and a gross misunderstanding of a profoundly important area of education. What was needed was a name that would better define and re-orientate the student into a fuller experience of the entire process of learning
with an interrelationship of hand, heart and head (art and science).
The Rough Science component of the science programme is an in-depth exploration of the mineral, plant and animal realms together with earth, air, fire and water where students weave substance and process through their own activity. This experience provides limitless opportunities for students to engage cognitively in understanding the nature of substance and its transformation.
A Rough Science technology programme is still to be developed and implemented which will focus strongly on environmentally sustainable technology such as in solar, wind, water and earth technologies which could well become a prominent component of the research year.
SLIDESHOW