13.50-14.10 school linking: a southern perspective ks3-4 alison leonard, geography teacher,

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13.50-14.10 School Linking: A Southern Perspective KS3-4 Alison Leonard, Geography Teacher, Westminster School, London

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13.50-14.10 School Linking: A Southern Perspective KS3-4 Alison Leonard, Geography Teacher, Westminster School, London. A School Link is here interpreted as between schools in the Developing World and schools in the Developed World. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: 13.50-14.10  School Linking: A Southern Perspective KS3-4  Alison Leonard,  Geography Teacher,

13.50-14.10 School Linking: A Southern PerspectiveKS3-4 Alison Leonard, Geography Teacher,Westminster School, London

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A School Link is here interpreted as between schools in the Developing World and schools in the Developed World.

These are also referred to in the literature as North/South School Links or partnerships

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AbstractHow are Southern teachers using these global links in

teaching and learning? How are Millennium Development Goals explored in such

links and partnerships? How are pupils’ knowledge and understanding affected

when their schools participate in links? Do Southern local communities benefit when local

schools are linked with Northern partners? Are “Southern voices” heard when learning outcomes are

evaluated?

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“Southern Voices in Linking: barriers to engagement”

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Development Education?I will be focusing on the impacts on Southern

participants in the Linking process. The approach will include detailed case studies of

the effects of Linking in Southern schools.

As a work in progress the paper will: (i) Outline my research methodology, (ii) Identify lessons for fellow aspiring teacher-

researchers (iii) Report on my pilot study

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Planned Methodology 2006Audit of current research into School

Linking and updated detailed Literature review of the topic.

Nov 2006

Conference paper

presented

Dec 2006

IOE poster conference and DEA

paper

Dec 07-Jan

08Draft

chapter written

Sept 2008Book

launch

Dissemination and progress

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Access data bases for Southern Linked schools, to establish the global distribution of School Links and audit why Southern schools seek to establish School Links.

Pilot semi-structured interviews with staff and pupils (especially Head Teachers and Linking coordinators)

July 2008Pilot of

interviews

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Interview Ministry of Education spokespersons to identify how Southern governments view the establishment of School Links.

Survey key players participating in Linking activities in Southern schools to establish perceptions of the Linking process on pupils, teaching colleagues, local communities and school curricula.

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Semi-structured interviews conducted with the Southern partners of the four Case study schools used for my MA work.

Expand the sample so that the Southern partners are derived from locations which proportionately reflect the global distribution of the Southern links.

Longitudinal studies of pupils, teachers and others who have taken part in School Linking, should it prove possible to track them.

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Explore other Northern national examples of School Linking, and their Southern partners.

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Progress to date:Nov 2006

Conference paper

presented

Dec 2006

IOE poster conference and DEA

paper

Sept 2006

Research proposal submitte

d

Sept 2008Book

launch

July 2007

ZED article on research

July 2008Pilot of

interviews

Dec 2008

Pilot transcribe

d and encoded

Dec 2008CPD

Workshop on Case

Studies

Nov-2007CPD on

Quantitative

Analysis and OSDE

May 2008

IOE Ethics approval

MDG focus

Dec 07-Jan

08Draft

chapter written

Jan-March 2007

CPD on Literature searching

Oct 2008

Participant in School Exchange to China

Summer2007

CPD onCase study

strategy

Jan 2009Living

Geography

launch

Summer

2008New book chapter

co-authored

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Lessons for fellow aspiring teacher-researchers1. Time management2. Other distractions3. How to disseminate research findings4. Plan to revise research proposal and refocus5. Practicalities of overseas research

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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2385/2431117053_dba621a7d0.jpg

I was far too ambitious!

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Teacher findings: Gender EqualityMillennium Development Goals (MDGs)“Ghanaian culture sidelines the girl child

from getting educated, from getting full education. They prefer the male child going to school”.

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Teacher findings: Gender Equality“But with these girl child education advocates all

over the place and with this [School Linking] project most students, most girls, or most parents now understand the relevance of education and its helping to promote … gender equality and empowering women…”

“…which eventually eradicates poverty and hunger. Because if women are in good jobs they can work, they can help support their families and the trend will change”

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Teacher findings: The importance of the link“It has brought the two worlds together. It

has brought in cultural integration, it has brought in new ideas about teaching and learning, that has opened the horizon of both sides, because of the cultural differences.”

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Pupil focus group findings:Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)Gender Equality“I think this partnership

is also helping to get more girls or more of us interested in schooling”

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Pupil focus group findings: Overcoming stereotypes: Visitor Exchanges“I had this notion that um, let me say, whites, or

people here in this country [UK]…like when they are teenagers, they are, they don’t really…they’re out of control” “…their parents can’t really control them…It really proved a point to me that: no matter how they dress and no matter how they look like, they all have respect for their elders and then they have respect for themselves and it is something good”“ … when I send back home I’ll tell my friends that this notion that we had is, you know, is not true.”

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Teacher findings : The importance of the link“This is a Ghanaian village community which is now part of a wider partnership of Ghanaian and UK schools; the link is no longer just between a Northern and a Southern secondary school.”

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“The Southern Voice in Linking: Thinking about North-South Linking”

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Thank you for listening; I hope you may still be Thinking about Linking and “A Southern Perspective”

A LeonardGeographical AssociationManchester, April 2009

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References: Bourn, D and Leonard, A. (2009) ‘Living in the Wider World’, in Mitchell, D. (ed) Living

Geography. London, Chris Kington Burr, M. (2007) Thinking about Linking. DEA thinkpiece. www.dea.org.uk/thinkpieces Burr, M, Andreotti, V and de Souza, L. M. (January 2007) : Humanities Education Centre

(London): Southern Voices – methodology design Disney, A (2004) ‘Children’s Developing Images and Representations of the School Link

Environment’ in Catling & Martin (eds) Researching Primary Geography. Register of Research in Primary Geography

Edge, K. (2008) North South school partnerships [electronic resource] : learning from schools in the UK, Africa and Asia : findings from Year 1. London, Centre for Leadership in Learning, Institute of Education.

Leonard, A (2004) Geography, Global Citizenship and School Linking, M.A dissertation Institute of Education, unpublished

Leonard, A (2005) Lessons from UK Secondary Schools: school linking and teaching and learning in Global Citizenship and Geography’, The Development Education Journal vol.11.2, Stoke-On-Trent, Trentham Books/DEA

Leonard, A. (2008) ‘Global School Relationships: School Linking and Modern Challenges in Bourn, D.(ed)‘Development education : debates and dialogue.  London, Institute of Education.

Martin, F (2007) ‘School Linking as a Controversial Issue’ in Claire & Holden (eds) The challenge of teaching controversial issues Trentham Books .

Pickering. S (2008):“What do children really learn? A discussion to investigate the effect that School partnerships have on children’s understanding, sense of values and perceptions of a distant place”. GeogEd Volume 2, Issue 1 Article 3 www.geography.org.uk/geoged

Scoffham S (2007) Please Miss, Why are they so Poor? Primary Geographer Spring 2007 Primary schools

 

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Still thinking about Linking?Useful websites:www.bbc.co.uk/worldclasswww.britishcouncil.org/learning.htmwww.camb-ed.com/www.globalgateway.org.ukwww.lcd.org.ukwww.iearn.orgwww.planschoolslink.orgwww.ukowla.org.ukwww.globaldimension.org.uk/

CommunityandSupport/?id=78 Development Education Centres (DECs)

www.lgec.org.uk/schoollinkingnw/intro.htmwww.cfbt.com/