Ecology of DevelopmentNorman Jackson, Lifewide Education

Copies of slides and background studies http://www.normanjackson.co.uk/kingston.html

 

formal education

workfamily /home

interests/hobbies

other

Learning & developing through and across the contexts, situations and time frames of our life

Lifelong learning: All learning activity undertaken throughout life with the aim of improving knowledge, skills and competencies within a personal, civic, social and/or employment-related perspective (Commission of European Communities 2001:9)

Lifewide learning: All learning and personal development that emerges through activities in the multiple contexts and situations we inhabit contemporaneously at any point in our life, with the aim of fulfilling roles and achieving specific goals, and continuously developing knowledge, understanding, skills, capabilities, dispositions and values within personal, civic, social and/or employment-related contexts.

PAST

FUTURE

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AWAYDAY

b1950

1962Sat milk

round

1963-67daily

newspaper round

1969-70 summer work

restaurant kitchens in Newquay

Christmas post

1968 Sat job

supermarket

1971summer work

in Cornish tin mine

19726 months working

in tin mineStart of PhD

1973-74FT geology technician

1974-76Teaching Assistant

Kings College

1977-80Ass. Professor

King Abdul Aziz Uni Saudi Arabia

school & PT work university & PT work

1980-85Principal Economic

Geologist DGMRSaudi Arabia

1985-90Senior LecturerKingston Poly

90-93HMIorg

closed

1993-95est. new deptUni Plymouth

1995-97HEQC

org merged

1997-2000QAA –new

org

2000-03LTSN new org

org merged1998-2003Uni Surreydept closed

2003-05HEA new org

2005-11Uni Surrey

CETL new orgorg closed

2011-14Chalk

Mountain Ltdnew org

2011-14Lifewide

Education CICnew org

self-employed

My lifelong journey through work

MY RELATIONSHIPSwith people - both existing and newly developed, and with things, objects and tools in my physical or virtual environment

MY CONTEXTS & DEVELOPMENTAL SPACES

home and family, educational, WORK, travel, hobbies and interests - my everyday

situations

MY RESOURCESthat I find or create and

I am able to utilise, including knowledge,

expertise and tools I use to help me learn

MY PROCESS created for a particular purpose. May be learning

or task oriented and includes the dimensions of time, space and purposeful

action.

MY WILL & CAPABILITY motivate me and enable me to create my process which

is the means through which I develop new knowledge,

understanding and capability

LEARNING ECOLOGIES

MY LEARNING ECOLOGY

MY HISTORYPast experiences,

learning relationships and resources that I bring to my current

learning project

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MY GOALto learn archaeology

ME with past knowledge, experience

and orientations

MY COURSE

The Posthole editorial team

attending archaeology conferences

organising a student archaeology conference

Homeless Heritage excavation & exhibition

participating in numerous excavations

volunteer Young

Archaeologists Club

Learning ecology – becoming an archaeologist

Creation of own website, written/audio/video blogsportfolio of news casts

Reporter Student Newspaper

Contributor student radio chat shows

Significant role in university production

of Lysistrata

Volunteer News Reader Susy Radio Employed News

Reader Jackie Radio

Learning ecology – becoming a radio broadcaster

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Learning ecology – for a professional learning project

Today

Emergence & mergence of learning ecologies

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1 THINK ABOUT CONTEXT: WHAT, HOW, WHEN, WHY?

4. EVALUATE IMPACT ON STUDENTS’ LEARNING

3 TEACH & ASSESS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP

in response to feedback

5. PLAN TO DO IT DIFFERENT/BETTER

NEXT TIME DEVELOP in response

to evaluation of outcomes

2 DEVELOP KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES & DESIGN STRATEGIES TO HELP

LEARNERS LEARN

Teaching : a continuous process of educational and professional development

SORRY YOU CAN’T DO THAT!

THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY?

IT WILL ALL BE WORTH IT IN THE END

WHAT A GREAT WAY TO LEARN

WHAT A GREAT IDEA

WHAT IF WE ?...

Behind every educational or professional development there is a

process involving imagining, reimagining, finding out, designing,

finding resources, overcoming problems, and doing what is necessary

to bring ideas into existence

Ecology of Professional & Educational Development CHALLENGE: to share experiences of how we build our own ecologies to develop ourselves in our own professional or educational contexts

INDIVIDUAL TASK - 15 MINS1 Think about a developmental project you have undertaken in the last two years. and create a visual representation of your learning ecology • explain what you were trying to achieve and why• describe the process you created or got involved in to develop yourself/project• identify what you did to develop/achieve, when you did them (timeline) where you did them (contexts) and who was involved (people/relationships)• summarise most important achievements/outcomes from process

IN PAIRS 15 MINS (preferably people you don't know very well)•share and discuss your narratives of learning, development and achievement•using the ecology metaphor - identify three important characteristics that can be recognised in your professional developmental processes

WHOLE GROUP 10MINS•share and illustrate common characteristics of professional learning ecologies