Exploring Engagement in Education
Posted on February 12, 2016 by grahamgilesubc This is our inaugural or pilot exploration in a series of theme-based new pathways in educational change. Rich with insight and story, this sequence is based around curated conversations that explore the theme of engagement in education. The product of collaborative video inquiry, where participants were invited to share in the […]
Exploring Engagement 1 – The “Epidemic of Disengagement”
Posted on February 11, 2016 by grahamgilesubc This startling phrase was a part of the submission for Growing Innovation grant support by the Project Based Learning initiative in British Columbia School District #59 (Dawson Creek). In this first New Pathways instalment of the Exploring Engagement series, we may see in the statements of some of the students, educators […]
Exploring Engagement 2 – Approaches: “We are Fighting for Engagement”
Posted on February 10, 2016 by grahamgilesubc We begin to hear from educators and educational leaders why and how they come to the question of engagement, what approaches they feel it is necessary to take toward it and why. This video presents a diversity of approaches to the question of engagement, each with their own particular implicit views […]
Exploring Engagement 3 – Methods: “Finding Engagement in Education”
Posted on February 9, 2016 by grahamgilesubc This segment of our sequence depicts ways in which engagement is described as found, gained or won. “Finding Engagement” presents a rich diversity of ideas about engagement within descriptions of how engagement is ‘found’ in education. Try to enumerate all the ways “finding engagement” takes place in the accounts of the […]
Exploring Engagement 4 – What is Engagement? “A Powerful Thing has Emerged…”
Posted on February 8, 2016 by grahamgilesubc This video presents educational thought – through the efforts of language of educators, administrators and students – in the process of trying to articulate and identify ‘engagement’ in education. In many ways this is the heart of this particular “Exploring New Pathways…” sequence, for here we see the thing itself, ‘engagement,’ […]
Exploring Engagement 5 – Teacher Engagement: “I didn’t realize what more there was…”
Posted on February 7, 2016 by grahamgilesubc Talk of engagement in Growing Innovation was so abundant that one could not help but notice the artificiality of the division among educators and educated. So often the question of engagement blurred this distinction that the question of teacher engagement itself deserves its own discussion. How do educators and educational leaders […]
Exploring Engagement 6: What Does Engagement Create?
Posted on February 6, 2016 by grahamgilesubc It may seem obvious, or self- evident: Engagement results in learning. But, as it seems from the conversations with an among the participants in the video excerpts presented in this segment, much more may be at stake, perhaps even such that elements of the educational adventure may be subsumed by the […]
Exploring Engagement 7 – Listening to Students
Posted on February 5, 2016 by grahamgilesubc How do students describe engagement? What do students want school to be? What do they not want from school? How is school important to them, and what does this say about them and how we should be with them? What do they say they need, and how does that agree with, […]
Extensions: Pedagogy & Selected Bibliography
Posted on February 4, 2016 by grahamgilesubc Engaging Engagement in Pedagogy and Curriculum Inquiry Here we conclude for now this “Pathway” with the question of engagement about engagement. How can teachers, beginning teachers and student teachers, as well as other educational leaders, perhaps inspired by the voices in the sequence at the heart of this pathway, engage in […]
