In light of the pressures facing all institutions and particularly the recent Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) we want to put notions of excellence on the table for debate: what constitutes excellence and for whom, and what is the relationship between excellence and expertise?
Two distinct but related comments emerged from last year’s discussion: the first a question how we can find excellence within risk and failure as integral to a learning process; the second a recognition of the current trend to reject the expert: do the students feel there is a point to learning from someone else?
The below document was produced following Independent Dance’s 2018 Higher Education Roundtable.
