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Using Participatory Image Based Research to Inform Teaching and Learning about Inclusion in Education
Images can play an important role in developing skills in critical reflection, both in schools and universities. Working with school students to take their own photographs as a way of exploring their school and its culture has great potential as an EBL approach. As such, University students in Education stand to gain invaluable skills in learning and engaging with this participatory methodology. This project will engage with six LEAs in the North-West to develop a 15 credit course unit which will also be available as an online resource. Aspects of the unit will be piloted in the second semester with PGCE students.
Project Team: Susie Miles, Ian Kaplan Faculty: Humanities
Funding year: 2005
Keywords: education, images, research, participatory, teacher training, image-based, postgraduate, teamwork, inclusion
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Manchester Access Programme: EBL Masterclasses
This project aims to engage non-traditional FE students with the process of enquiry-based learning through a series of masterclasses. The masterclasses will focus on the theme of sustainability and will touch on various curriculum areas. The masterclasses will be facilitated by trained University of Manchester students and will take place in Spring 2006. Year 12 students participating in the masterclasses are involved in a wider series of activities aimed to support and encourage their application to The University of Manchester. Involvement with the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning at a pre-University level will benefit both the institution and the students by better preparing them for the alternative learning and teaching methods practiced at the University.
Project Team: Patricia Clift, Stephanie Lee
Funding year: 2005
Keywords: widening participation, further education, sustainability, pbl, presentation, facilitation, sixth form, inclusion, diversity
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Partnerships in Pedagogy
Post-qualification support for secondary school teachers is less well provided than other aspects of their professional preparation. This project will develop materials that will enable school-based mentors to work together with trainees, using an EBL approach, to investigate and develop pedagogic beliefs and practices. Findings from this project will be captured and made available to other areas of the university where training for professional practice is carried out.
Project Team: Geoff Wake Faculty: Medical and Human Sciences
Funding year: 2005
Keywords: pedagogy, partnership, secondary school, teachers, mentoring, practice, teacher training
Enquiry Based Learning in Museums: A Mechanism for gallery evaluation
This project asks the question “What is the relevance of Classics to the 21st Century?” with Manchester students to encourage debate and regeneration of Classics though enquiry-based learning. Using a mixture of field work and project planning, the student cohort will develop key transferable skills. Students will devise approaches to formal assessment and evaluation of galleries, by directing their own investigations at key cultural sites in the UK. By encouraging students to take an interest in classics we are enabling them to enquire, question and debate, to be aware of the huge influence of the ancient world on their own lives and the ways in which it has been interpreted over the years.
Project Team: Bryan Sitch, Ella Louise Sutherland, Janet Tatlock, Kathryn McTavish Faculty: Humanities
Funding year: 2006
Keywords: manchester, museums, gallery, classics, culture, widening participation, schools, teamwork, evaluation, debate
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Values & Worth: an EBL approach to encountering and constructing collections
The project aims to create a reflective and investigative learning object based around the notions of 'Value' and 'Worth' which will be explored and examined in terms of what makes an object valuable (Determiners of Value); how an object is viewed in a collection (artefact, Art or commodity); who decides what is valuable (Professionals, academics, connoisseurs, consumers, general public) and finally what some of the problems might be with ascribing value. The project hopes to produce a template for enquiry that can be used in any collection visiting context.
Project Team: Janet Tatlock Faculty: Humanities
Funding year: 2007a
Keywords: museum, art, value, artifact, object
