Dr Plamen Andreev

I have ample experience teaching both large and small groups of students, as well as running one-to-one guided tutorials. I am well equipped to help you improve your knowledge of the particular subject area you need help with, but also to develop your close reading and writing skills, critical thinking, argumentation and communication skills.

My teaching is oriented constructively, i.e. I will encourage you to make use of what you already know to build your own connections to new concepts and theories. This approach has proven pedagogic benefits – those who are active participants in their own learning, learn the most. I will aim to help you develop an intellectual vigilance about your own ideas and those of others. This is especially important in close readings of texts (especially philosophical ones). Focussing on critical thinking, sensitivity to nuance and pre-empting possible objections will also help you improve your writing and argumentative skills.

In the first session, we will discuss your specific learning needs – e.g. whether you need help with an assessment, or with improving your understanding of a specific text or author's position. The further sessions will then be tailored to these needs, and will be aimed at putting you in the best possible position to meet them.