maps, mapping & counter-mapping

Book: Critical Thinking Skills, Stella Cottrell

Tier 1: Social Identity // Gender, class, (dis)abilities, mental health, sexuality etc. 

Tier 2: Life Impact (positions you may hold, values attached etc)

Tier 3: Emotions (dig deeper)

Examples:

  1. The Pilgrims Progress: Idea of being a pilgrim being on a journey over the course of life that is taking you towards heaven. Visualizes the series of tests the pilgrim experiences. 

Map that depicts a teaching story/ analogy. 

Thinking about the Positionality map as a journey. (Could be provided as an example.)

  1. Counter-mapping: Institutional Critique by Queen Mary University – looking at how education in the UK is complicit with certain ideas when it comes to immigration to the UK.

Counter mapping in pink 

Combines and hard and soft data// 

Map is playing with ideas circulating the PP – eg sea of Bureaucracy    

Relationship to scale- big ie Important ,, small ie not so important

Counter-mapping: Institutional Critique by Queen Mary University The Rules: Gamification – Playing on the British aesthetics 

  1. Map of Philosopher, Simone Weil by Thomas Hershorn 

Tried to map his interpretation of philosopher. Discusses about Covid and how he made it in his home. 

It was specifically about understanding a person and being more empathetic. 

Most important point of mapping: Sometimes you can use something out in the world as a reference to organize your map. E.g. the map of meat cutting 

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