LGC Key Issues

Learners perspective

Educational Context created by Learners’ desire to learn

Learners are learning to deal with the adult world

Learners’ take responsibility and expand horizons

Building on learners existing engagement with learning – what aspect of motivation can be captured e.g. through ownership

Learner’s have a voice in pedagogy and agenda setting by/with learners is built-in

Pedagogy (as we know it) is the problem, Obuchenie

Learners are able to make learning relevant to their own worlds

Teachers/trainers/educators perspective

Educators role needs to provide learning resources, remove barriers to learning, release learner’s desire to learn

Recognise the educational value of partnerships

Ownership cascade for learners throughout all elements of the Ecology of resources

Perpetual beta – teachers as learners

Obuchenie

Institutions perspective – the generation and transformation of organisations

Power relationships within education that are currently motivated by control and funding need to be motivated by learners’ needs

Need increased negotiation between institutions and learners and between institutions and teachers

Relationships/pressures/impact/influences from outside a particular educational environment need to be taken into account by that educational environment and vice versa e.g. relationships with parents

The tension between Flexibility and Design tension with respect to power relationships, spaces, technologies needs to be addressed.

Learning needs to be Interdisciplinary not just discipline based

LGC in conflict with current model – consequences of organising around subjects and not recognising that interesting stuff happens in the gaps

Need to flip the relationship between learners and the system

It’s about more than content

Obuchenie

Need a culture of PARTICIPATION

Major Difficulties

Getting to grips with CONTEXT and what we mean by it: a process rather than a space?

Getting other people to get to grips with what PARTICIPATION really means

Need to clarify what we mean by loose frameworks and freedom of choice

Need to translate the ‘scaffolding language’ into something more accessible

How do we develop tools for increased educational democracy