What Gets You Out of Bed to Teach Design & Technology?

About this episode

Dr Alison Hardy reflects on her professional challenges and rediscovering her passion for design and technology education.

Send me a message. Reconnecting with purpose is essential when facing professional challenges. In this reflective episode, I share my experience of an unsuccessful professorial application and how it prompted me to rediscover why I'm passionate about design and technology education in the first place. The start of a new academic term offers the perfect opportunity to step back from the excitement and apprehension of returning to teaching and consider our fundamental values: What drives...

People in this episode

Host: Dr Alison Hardy

Topics covered

• design education
• professional challenges
• reflection
• passion for teaching
• academic values

Keywords

• design and technology
• education
• academic term
• professional application
• reconnecting with purpose

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