Teachers' Professional Development

"Rod Harris’s methodology is informed by his practice as a sculptor working directly with materials ... Rod took a decisive but non-authoritarian role as leader or facilitator by setting up the creative space and related task and by overseeing a process by which individuals needed to work with others to achieve a result. They needed to give space to others to come forward and offer suggestions, skills, to make mistakes and move on. Rod realised a high level of aesthetic experience both in the formal sense – quality of materials, colour and texture, but also in a transformative sense of something becoming something else in ways that were completely unimaginable at the outset. Rod enabled individuals to make new things that appeared from the outset to be impossible to achieve by developing both self-reliance and collaboration.”

Quote from a Pal Lab Evaluation written by Dr Anne Douglas of On the Edge Research October 2005

PAL Kent	Filton School	London
	Liverpool University