ADM-HEA Annual Forum: Shaping Things to Come
Tuesday 17th May 2011; RIBA, London
Creative work and higher education: Industry, identity, passion, and precarity
Dr Daniel Ashton, Bath Spa University
This session considers the importance of ‘identity’ for exploring the ways in which students relate to themselves as future media and creative industries workers. Noting a range of government policy reports (e.g. Creative Britain, 2009) that identify higher education as a key site in the formation and development of labour for the ‘creative economy’, this session explores the possibilities of how higher education students can relate to themselves as creative workers in-the-making.
The session will introduce emerging research on identity and work, and pedagogic practices that extend concepts of ‘employability’ and ‘industry learning’ to locate ethical concerns around working practices as relevant for students. The discussion will seek to explore the following question: how are students able to articulate their passions and career aspirations alongside a recognition and responsiveness to the unethical and amoral aspects of work in the creative and media industries?
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