Modelling Quality Education for diverse learners

session 6

Your case studies

Remind us of your case studies…..

• What is the context?

• Who are the learners? • What are the key challenges?

• Introduce us to a student/group of students (name, age)

An alternative agenda?

• Read through the EFA declarations. Think about them in terms of how they relate to the personal biography.

• Consider the core educational needs/aims for this group.

• Draft an alternative Declaration, and if possible goals that would be relevant/appropriate/helpful for this person

Two models:Heneveld and Pigozzi

Why model education in this way?How do the models compare?What assumptions do they have?

of learning?of schools?

Who do these models work for?What aspects of these models work for your case study?What aspects of success/process/encounter/learning do

they not recognise?Which model do you prefer? Why?

Other models - Collaborative knowledge building (Stahl, 2000)

Modelling learning for your case study learners

Based on your earlier exercise….What are the key educational ambitions for this group?

What are the key terms? - Product? Attainment, Cohesion? Equality? Livelihood? Access?

What understandings of knowledge/learning is relevant here?

Your own model

Create your own model (of learning, of quality) relevant for your case study group.

What dimensions/indicators does this suggest?

Present your draft model

Literature Reviews

Literature review Process

Each person

• chooses a topic

• develops a list of references for the topic• Creates a short commentary that places

these articles in context.

This is a mapping exercise

Start with the Blackboard folder

For next time

Prepare a short presentation where you critique an existing educational initiative in your case study area. Consider

a) Who implements, whose idea was it? What ideas does it assume? What problem does it assume? Who are the key actors? How does it work? How far has it been successful? etc

Outline for remaining time

Session 7 – Actors, projects, funding INGOs, evaluation, reform, change, development projects.

Session 8 (date to be rearranged)Research and educational change – how research can fit it

Session 9/10Class presentations and overview/review of themes

AssessmentQuality Education in Context: A case study

Your assignment is to build up a argument for your understanding of what quality education would be in a

specific context for a specific group of people. The assignment has two components – i) an academically

rigorous critique of the current situation, ii) the creative exploration of what quality education could be for this

group of people.

Submission date: April 30th 2009

Formative pieces• A personal piece on your engagement with the topic of

quality Education• A review of an academic paper• An analysis of the educational legacies in your case

study context• A biographical narrative of a person from your case

study target group• A model of quality education applicable in your case

study context• A critique of an existing initiative implemented in your

case study context• A literature review of an area relevant for your case

study.• A group class presentation of what quality education

would mean in a specific context in a low –income country.

Session 9/10

today

For next week

Anytime

Will discuss today

DONE

Presented as….• A traditional 4000 assignment. (in which case the eight pieces will

have helped you to think , but might not appear in your finished piece as such)

• A series of critique pieces, with a more traditional piece for your creative solution.

• A portfolio of pieces, with an overarching narrative that links them together.

• A ‘messy text’, where you juxtapose different pieces and styles.• A narrative from the point of view of one of the characters• Etc.

Please submit a half-page with your proposed structure and topic to me before 31st March 2009.

• Submission date: April 30th 2009