This is Part 4 of a series of blog posts on School Culture, written by Prof Kathija Yassim (UJ) in collaboration with principals from the Sandbox Schools. The posts will reflect on insights emerging from a set of visual participatory research workshops held as part of the School Culture intervention in the Sandbox Schools Project. … Continue reading Leading a Culture of Learning Series: “Little Principals”
Leading a Culture of Learning Series: Principal as “Culture-builder”
This is Part 3 of a series of blog posts on School Culture, written by Prof Kathija Yassim (UJ) in collaboration with principals from the Sandbox Schools. The posts will reflect on insights emerging from a set of visual participatory research workshops held as part of the School Culture intervention in the Sandbox project. You can … Continue reading Leading a Culture of Learning Series: Principal as “Culture-builder”
Leading a Culture of Learning Series: A New Leader’s Experience
This is Part 2 of a series of blog posts on School Culture, written by Prof Kathija Yassim (UJ) in collaboration with principals from the Sandbox Schools. The posts will reflect on insights emerging from a set of visual participatory research workshops held as part of the School Culture intervention in the Sandbox project. You … Continue reading Leading a Culture of Learning Series: A New Leader’s Experience
Leading a Culture of Learning Series: (Re)Defining a Culture of Learning for a Constantly Changing World
This is Part 1 of a series of blog posts on School Culture, to be written by Prof Kathija Yassim (UJ) in collaboration with principals from the Sandbox Schools. The posts will reflect on insights emerging from a set of visual participatory research workshops held as part of the School Culture intervention in the Sandbox … Continue reading Leading a Culture of Learning Series: (Re)Defining a Culture of Learning for a Constantly Changing World
Sandbox Intervention Mix
As a design-based research (DBR) pilot, the Sandbox Schools Project involves designing, testing, researching, and refining a set of interventions at our pilot schools in iterative research cycles, to explore their potential to develop competencies for a changing world in teachers and learners. These interventions will be the subject of research over the next three … Continue reading Sandbox Intervention Mix
Learning through Play at Home – Lockdown Activities
It seems that almost the entire world is on lockdown at the moment, which includes the suspension of formal schooling in over 180 countries. As a result, parents and caregivers around the world have found themselves in the unexpected role of ‘teacher’ – often with little to no previous experience. While this situation is indeed … Continue reading Learning through Play at Home – Lockdown Activities
Design-based Research and the Sandbox Project
This is Part 2 of a series of articles exploring the role of Design-based Research in the Sandbox Project. You can read Part 1 here. Some Challenges and Tensions Because of its commitment to trying to understand what happens in complex learning environments, Design-based Research (DBR) has to balance some tensions and trade-offs in its … Continue reading Design-based Research and the Sandbox Project
Design-based Research: What is it, and Why are we using it?
This is Part 1 of a series of articles about Design-based Research in the Sandbox Project. You can read Part 2 here. Action research, Quasi-experimental research, Ethnographic study… There are many different types of research used in education, each with their own history and terminology – it can sometimes seem quite overwhelming! Throughout the long … Continue reading Design-based Research: What is it, and Why are we using it?
Reflection: Lessons in Change – Part 2
This is Part 2 of the article on Lessons in Change. You can read Part 1 here. What are teachers’ experiences of teaching? South African teachers deal with a lot on a daily basis. As many of our Sandbox teachers have said, they are not only expected to teach, but to be parents, psychologists, and … Continue reading Reflection: Lessons in Change – Part 2
Reflection: Lessons in Change – Part 1
Human beings are complicated, and change is complicated. As the Sandbox Project progresses, we are starting to experience this complexity in all its glory at our 11 pilot schools. There have been small wins, setbacks, mistakes, and pleasant surprises along the way – all serving to reinforce both the importance and the difficulty of social … Continue reading Reflection: Lessons in Change – Part 1
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