Enquiring Minds is a three-year research and development project investigating how children can shape their own learning, by changing the emphasis from what they learn to how they learn. [Source: Enquiring Minds: a new approach to learning.]
Category Archives Learning Theory
Don Edgar writes in The Age about the need to re-think schooling and learning and the role of the wider world, starting with the community. Personally, I don't think there is any other way forward.. [Source: The Age]
The McIntire School of Commerce held its seventh annual fall symposium on Friday, Sept. 29 in Old Cabell Hall. The School's symposia, organized by its Center for Growth Enterprises, each year examines the complex nature and origins of organizational success. "With every symposium, we work to facilitate compelling, multidimensional discussions of timely and important issues," said McIntire Dean Carl Zeithaml.…
As pupils and students return to their desks, September has been chosen as the month to focus on education and learning in Scotland. The Executive, learndirect scotland and Scotland's learning community has, for the first time, arranged a series of events throughout the month to highlight their focus on engaging Scots in lifelong learning and education. September 6 - Multiple…
Australian theatre director and educator Colin Schumacher is currently in Bangkok directing 40 graduating students in a new physical theatre production. He tells us about writing and rehearsing 'Reality:Dreams', and the challenges of cross-cultural work. The tours of the educational drama workshops also continued concurrently with Mom Dusdi interpreting his work, and incorporating Howard Gardner's theories of multiple intelligences. I…
Mennie Scapens and Deborah Fraser pull together a review of the literature on MI theory and examine the extent to which its applications have been found to be associated with improved student outcomes and other positive changes in the secondary school setting, and to ascertain the reasons why the theory, which has found such a ready audience among primary school educators,…
Going Beyond Bubbles... "What if civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks had given up her seat on the bus?" "Your roommate has the answer key to a test and has offered to share it with you. What do you do?" These philosophical queries are two of many possible questions that will appear as a supplement to the common application for admissions…
Waterford Institute of Technology is one of just two Irish organisations selected to lead projects under the latest round of Minerva