Peter Oakley

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  Peter Oakley

Peter Oakley has a background of teaching and curriculum development across material culture, critical and contextual studies and art, craft and design. His experience of teaching includes the roles of undergraduate course leader, PGCE placement mentor and CPD facilitator for art and design lecturers and teachers. He has been involved in the creation of honours degrees, foundation degrees and access to HE courses, either as team leader, team member or external academic validator.  A graduate of the RCA and UCL, his research interests include: the construction and maintenance of individual and communal practitioner identities; the teaching, practice and reception of craft disciplines in industrialized societies and in indigenous communities; heritage in relation to community identities and tourism;  educational and popular representations of prehistory.

Peter has had a longstanding involvement with educational institutions and the heritage sector across the Southwest of England. A SWLLN curriculum project worker from 2006 until autumn 2008, Peter is also continuing to support the SWLLN as Subject Advisor for Heritage, whilst reading for a PhD in Anthropology at UCL.   

The following conference paper abstracts can be downloaded from the right-hand side of this page:

Bringing History to Life? the motivations and practice of heritage educational enactors
ATLAS Annual Conference 2008, Brighton University 2-4 July 2008.

The Politics of Paradise: managing cultural heritage at the Polynesian Cultural Center
Published Conference Proceedings, BU Partnership Conference, 29 June 2007.

Praxeological Subjectification: the hidden power of practical activities