The delivery was successful, although my personal reflection on the session was one of the feedback points made by one of my peers: “It could have been more interactive” “How? “I asked, as I felt that I had taken on the feedback during my Safe Space Crits and increased interaction.
“Maybe cut down on the history content and focus more on the ingredients you referred to. You could have brought in a lemon, some vanilla, etc, as I don’t remember how they smell and it would have helped with your final activity, of creating your own perfume in theory.”
Decrease the fundamental foundations and evolution of the object. Is this right? Is it not important to have an understanding of what happened previously to why it is now and how it can be developed?
It is factual that within education history has always been glazed over, when not in favour of specific cultures and not acknowledging the excellence of those cultural references: in this case the first use of perfumery was in the continent of Africa: well documented within education for being the home to erased information: The propaganda of ‘British values’ is a distortion of history, Akala (2016).
I always have historical references , especially within my practice, because the importance of understanding the origins enables students to make informed and meaningful decisions. The decreasing of history lends itself to the mindset of systemic racism and unfair systems within an institution, which favour historical biases and fails to recognise social justice. If the subject or topic’s origins isn’t in the favour of the dominant culture, then its relevance is overlooked and therefore white-washed for their comfort.
Sir Winston Churchill, (1930) Quote: History will be kind to me, as I intend to write it.” But if history wasn’t written by you, if it only stated the facts, would it be so kind?
In response to the feedback given, I will utilise the use of ingredients to incorporate more interaction, for those who cannot recollect the smell of a lemon, but not at the cost of history. It is necessary for cultural histories to be fairly acknowledged and should be clear that some people only evolve because of dominance.
References:
The propaganda of ‘British values’ is a distortion of history, Akala (2016)
Link: The propaganda of ‘British values’ is a distortion of history – Akala | In my opinion
A Roving Commission: My Early Life, Sir Winston Churchill (1930)
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Early_Life
