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“Most of the time we don’t notice
the effects of the environment on us
because we are too preoccupied with
the normal trials of life.”
Keedwell P. (2017) Headspace. London, Quarto Publishing
R e think ing Tea chi n g
Sp ac es , Refra mi n g
Sta r ting Poi n ts
Lorraine Lee
Subject Head (Art Elective Programme)
National Junior College
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Another challenge to be faced by these
students was in February 2019, when these
students would be them doing their Visual
Arts tasks on laptops. Most would be facing
a wall, almost in a panopticon fashion, with
extension cords creeping around the floor,
tasked to multiply 2 socket points into 20!
n late 2018, Sec 3 art students entered the room they would
come to call ‘home’ for 2019. An uninspiring, inherited
mess greeted them -- cupboards spilled over with leftover
materials, hefty wooden tables with tiny drawers stuffed with
mysterious items, and old canvases and boxes hoarded the
remaining wall space. As the students worked on wiping the
tables and mopping the floors, their two art teachers were on
their knees digging out the ancient muck from the sink trap.
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