Participants are asked to respond to Part 5 of the study, available here. It is based on a scenario for the before, during and after of an unspecified education event (see the bottom of this blog post).
February update:
- The collated responses from Question 4 of the Part 4 survey are available to study here
- there are presently 117 participants in the study
- 77 participants have indicated preferences for a research interview at some stage during this 3-year study. If you haven't yet, you can click here.
Impoverishment of the Educational Imagination
Posted on | January 22, 2009 |
Stand after stand at the BETT Show this year seemed to bear witness to a concept of schooling that is just about as far away from the joy of learning as it appears possible to get - it could really only get worse if we were to go back to thrashing kids. Everywhere I wandered I came across little gaggles of people listening intently to someone demonstrating yet another ticky-boxy piece of junk designed to rank and grade kids, to label them, to monitor them and to 'protect' them.
I invited folk on twitter to add themselves to this list and quite a few did, I've blogged a bit about it and hope to use this technology with my class very soon. Thanks to everybody who help with the test, and please feel free to add yourself to see how
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