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Oxford OX2 9AT
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| Young
people's participation in the research process |
Dr Joe Harkin |
The
voices of learners should be heard in educational research,
including those of young people and the marginalized. Research
may take the views of learners as the essential starting point
to consider what we mean by effective teaching and effective
learning. In the Communication Styles project, learners took
part with their teachers in articulating what is effective
teaching in different contexts, through the use of a Communication
Styles questionnaire. In the Socrates European Student Constructs
project, 17 year old students in six countries articulated
what they mean informally by a "good" teacher, through
the use of Construct elicitation. In current work, 14-16 year
old learners in English Further Education will articulate
their learning needs, through the use of focus group discussions
in six different colleges.
Presentation
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| Children expressing their views through
taking photographs
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Dr
Laura Davison |
Sponsored
by ESRC and Kodak.
Photography
is an important medium for communication and representation
that is increasingly within the reach of children. Understanding
how children develop competence in and knowledge of photography
is, therefore, an important challenge for developmental psychology.
The attached paper reports an exploratory study of children
of ages 7 – 15 years, using cameras and talking about
their photographs. The results 1) identify some of the distinctive
features of children’s photography at different ages,
2) establish some functions of their image making, and, 3)
set up some hypotheses about the development of both competence
in taking photographs and understanding of photographic images
(The Development
of Children as Photographers
pdf file). There is also a website devoted to the research
at Kodak project - children
as photographers and teachers might find this part of
it especially useful Kodak
project - useful links as it contains links and a downloadable
version of the education resource pack. |
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