Vivien Tucker

Vivien Tucker - (Viv Grant & Viv Tucker)

Teaching and Learning
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Postal address: Room 106, 3, Endsleigh Place, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +44 (0)1752 587719
Email: vivien.tucker@plymouth.ac.uk

Qualifications & background

2006 Sept. – July 2007           LeTTOL Learning to Teach Online

An accredited online distance education course aimed at teachers, lecturers, trainers, content developers who wish to transfer their existing skills to an online environment.  http://weblearn.sheffcol.ac.uk/lettol// Sheffield College, United Kingdom.

Oct. 2005                                Integrated Masters Degree MA (Ed)

Dissertation Title: Into the Fold. A Case of Multiplicity in Cyberspace. An Exploration into the Construction of Identities in Cyberspace . A Narrative Inquiry. University of Plymouth.

Sept.1995 - Dec. 1997           Certificate in Education
                                                University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon.

Sept.1982 – July 83               Society of Industrial Artists & Designers S.I.A.D. Textile &
                                                Surface Design with Business studies.
                                                Somerset College of Art & Design, Taunton, Somerset.

Sept.1981 – July 82 South West Regional Diploma in Surface Pattern
Somerset College of Art & Design, Taunton, Somerset.

Sept. 1979 – July 81 BTEC National Diploma in Art & Design
Somerset College of Art & Design, Taunton, Somerset.

Previous Full-time Post Sept 2000 – July 2008

Full-time Lecturer in Education, University of Plymouth, Faculty of Education, Exmouth.

Responsible for curriculum development, planning, managing, lecturing, assessment and academic and personal tutoring on the PGCE Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Post-16) full time generic programme. Module leader for Narrative Approaches to Educational Practice, Feminist Approaches to Research, ICT in Teaching and Learning, University of Plymouth - Exmouth Campus Programme leader.

Responsible for curriculum development, planning, managing, lecturing, assessment and academic and personal tutoring on the Cert Ed (Post-16) Certificate in Education Fulltime Programme. University of Plymouth - Exmouth Campus. Programme leader.

I previously managed trainee teachers/student placements in FE colleges. I provided training for mentors who supported University of Plymouth students when on teaching placement in FE and HE programmes around the South West region of UK.

As part of a small team, I contributed to the design, management and delivery of the curriculum on the FdA Degree and BA in Education and Training based in Exmouth for the University of Plymouth, along with generic teaching and organisational duties and dissertation supervision on these programmes. I was module leader for the Imagination and Education module.

Current Practice

Viv has 27 years’ experience as a creative practitioner working in Further Education and Higher Education contexts within the UK. She worked as a fulltime lecturer in the Faculty of Education for the University of Plymouth between 1998 and 2008.

Viv trained as an artist and has taught stills photography and film making. She began her research career in 2001 in digital technologies which led her to develop an e-tutoring and e-pedagogy online learning community of practice for trainee teachers in post-16 education where notions of professional identities were explored via narrative inquiry. Since 2008 Viv has developed her own Educational Development business offering CPD in writing practices. She is still pursuing her academic research which focuses upon narrative inquiry, auto-ethnography, personal sustainability, the body and wellbeing in organisational settings. She writes and publishes her poetry.

After a 3 years break from full-time teaching, Viv has returned to the University setting to work as a research assistant for the Transformative Learning for Sustainability in Higher Education project with the PedRio School at the University of Plymouth. This project utilises her expertise in educational theory and practice to underpin and inform the diverse research currently emerging from sustainability discourses and practices. Viv also works as a part-time associate lecturer in Education Studies.

Research interests

Narrative, auto-ethnographic and autobiographic writing practices and methodologies which support the professional voice in educational, arts and healthcare contexts.
Writing as a method of inquiry.
Imagination and Creativity.
Writing the body in organisational settings.
Wellbeing, resilience, happiness and personal sustainability in professional educational, arts and healthcare practice contexts and life work.
e-learning - online teaching, pedagogy and learning strategies.
Poetical texts and inter-textural narrative artworks.
Becoming and identity in a post-structural world.
Adoption, Loss and writing for healing.

UoP Research group membership

e-Learning

Other research

Papers ready for Publication

1. Creative Eye, Flowing Heart, Perpetually Falling Apart - Photography Immanence and Rothko.

2. The Flow of Family Re-cognised- Un-peacing together the family Album – An auto-ethnographic account in which memory work, Haug (1987) and photographs are used in the formation of new assemblages Deleuze & Guarrati (2003) within the territorial assemblage of family. An ethical questioning of what is in and what is absent from this auto-ethnography of family as a result of adoption, inquiry into family photographs and family secrets revealed.

Creative practice & artistic projects

Poetry

Collect of poems in progress ‘The Philosopher on the Beach’ Poems from 2009 to present. An inquiry into landscape, love and becoming.

Poetry Pamphlet currently being designed for publication ‘Sleeping with Picasso’ Poems from 1997 to 2009.

Poetry Pamphlet self published (1997) ‘The Landing Spot’ .

Inquries about writing workshops and poetry workshops can be made on imagination@zetnet.co.uk

Publications

Chapters in Books

Tucker V ‘Emerging Online Practices: An Endo-Aesthetic Approach to e-tutoring and e-learning’, in Wheeler, S (2009) ‘Connected Minds Emerging Culture’ The Rise of Cyberculture in Online Learning. Information Age Publishers, USA.

Papers in Journals

Technology, Pedagogy and Education Kelly et al: Taking a stance: Promoting deliberate action through online postgraduate professional development, July 2007 http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content?content=10.1080/14759390701406760

Adoption, Love and The Struggle to be Born – An Auto ethnographic account of the affects of Adoption. Aug 2008 Journal of Loss and Trauma, Taylor and Francis, London. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/15325024.html

Conferences organised

2005 Nov. E-Learning Conference University of Plymouth, Devon, UK

Conference Organiser. http://www2.plymouth.ac.uk/e-learning/

2003 Nov. University of Plymouth - E-Learning Conference

(Conference Organiser and Call for Papers Editor)

University of Plymouth, Devon, UK.