International interest in Students’ Voices research
February 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
In the past months many colleagues expressed their interest in the Students’ Voices research projects and are exploring possibilities to take part in the research.At this moment we are in contact with colleagues in the following countries: Australia, Belgium (Flanders), Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Peru, Portugal, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the USA.
If you too would like to participate, please let us know!
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March 1st, 2011 @ 11:00
I am a teacher of University of Minho, Institute of Education, Portugal. We are developing a two years research called “Students as researchers: collaborative learning (StuRe-col; in Portuguese ESIS-ac)” in an high school of Braga, north of Portugal (12th grade; 15-17 years old). Its general goal is the students’ development and deepening of team and autonomous research skills along the development of their small studies. We have been emphasizing the use of simple tools for data processing as well as analysis and interpretation of different genres of texts /languages (data). We are organized as a research collaborative community that includes secondary teachers of History and Geography, students and the team researchers. This school year we have ten projects in process. Here are two examples that summarize students’ research questions and instruments / tasks: “The public contemporary art”: Which are the artists and political /private institutions’ intentions to create and support public art? What are the “streetwalkers”’ opinions about these works of arts (sculptures, graffiti, fountains…) /Reading and interpreting works of arts- historical and artistic literacy; interviews; 2) “From History to the Heart of the City” (main square): Are changes occurred (buildings, roads flows, economic activities…) in the heart of the city of Braga since 1974 to nowadays? Are changes due to economic, political or cultural causes? /Functional maps, interviews and questionnaires, photos and of verbal sources… The data gathering instruments of our project include students’ metacognition rubrics; interviews, students’ final reports. In this very moment we are going to start a workshop in this subject for teachers.
I would like to participate in your pedagogical and research mouvement. How do it?