The purpose of this paper is to engage readers in thinking about the art of teaching and how to support inventive practice. Readers are invited into a classroom and immersed in a day of learning with 11 and 12-year-olds.
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Mindy R. Carter, P. Howard, S. Wiebe, Jérôme St-Amand
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Mindy R. Carter, P. Howard, S. Wiebe, Jérôme St-Amand","doi":"10.7202/1083419ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1083419ar","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":44124,"journal":{"name":"McGill Journal of Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44497027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper presents the results of an inquiry into a creative, whole-school integrative learning project that started with posing a ‘big question’. Data were generated to deepen understanding regarding the effects of implementing creative project-based learning Hi on student lived experience and student attitudes toward learning. Research on project-based approaches is required to reflect the current contextual realities specific to high schools. The focus on integrative and arts-based approaches as they relate to high school classrooms indicate that secondary education lags in comparison to elementary and middle grades. The findings presented here provide the possibility of a more informed, attentive, action-sensitive professional practice in the development of educational experiences designed to influence the learning experiences of secondary students.
{"title":"“What’s the Big Idea?” A Case Study of Whole-School Project-Based Instruction in Secondary Education","authors":"P. Howard, Christian Ryan, I. Fogarty","doi":"10.7202/1083425ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1083425ar","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of an inquiry into a creative, whole-school integrative learning project that started with posing a ‘big question’. Data were generated to deepen understanding regarding the effects of implementing creative project-based learning Hi on student lived experience and student attitudes toward learning. Research on project-based approaches is required to reflect the current contextual realities specific to high schools. The focus on integrative and arts-based approaches as they relate to high school classrooms indicate that secondary education lags in comparison to elementary and middle grades. The findings presented here provide the possibility of a more informed, attentive, action-sensitive professional practice in the development of educational experiences designed to influence the learning experiences of secondary students.","PeriodicalId":44124,"journal":{"name":"McGill Journal of Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45662464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Morrissette, Sébastien Arcand, Ben Diéhdiou, Saïdou Segueda
Many teachers work in national contexts different from those in which they completed their teacher education. To date, research has neglected the role their colleagues play in their socialisation to the profession. This research aims to shed light on the ways in which interactions with colleagues help teachers who have received their training outside of their current national professional contexts to integrate into Montréal schools. The findings demonstrate that these interactions help to shape their understanding of education, their relationships within the educational community and those within the teaching profession, until these are viable within the new context. Colleagues play different roles in learning contextspecific teaching conventions.
{"title":"Les enseignants formés à l’étranger dans les écoles montréalaises : des interactions qui façonnent de nouvelles représentations opératoires","authors":"J. Morrissette, Sébastien Arcand, Ben Diéhdiou, Saïdou Segueda","doi":"10.7202/1077975AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1077975AR","url":null,"abstract":"Many teachers work in national contexts different from those in \u0000which they completed their teacher education. To date, research has neglected \u0000the role their colleagues play in their socialisation to the profession. This \u0000research aims to shed light on the ways in which interactions with colleagues \u0000help teachers who have received their training outside of their current national \u0000professional contexts to integrate into Montréal schools. The findings \u0000demonstrate that these interactions help to shape their understanding of \u0000education, their relationships within the educational community and those \u0000within the teaching profession, until these are viable within the new context. \u0000Colleagues play different roles in learning contextspecific \u0000teaching \u0000conventions.","PeriodicalId":44124,"journal":{"name":"McGill Journal of Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43784838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Claudia Mitchell & Relebohile Moletsane (Eds.). Disrupting Shameful Legacies: Girls and Young Women Speak Back through the Arts to Address Sexual Violence. Leiden, London: Koninklijke Brill. (2018). 345pp. (ISBN 978-90-04-37769-1)","authors":"Lori Beavis","doi":"10.7202/1077981AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1077981AR","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":44124,"journal":{"name":"McGill Journal of Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45588131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Erika Hasebe-Ludt & Carl Leggo (Eds). Canadian Curriculum Studies: A Métissage of Inspiration/Imagination/Interconnection. Toronto: Canadian Scholars (2018). 319 pp. $54.95 (paperback). (ISBN 978-1-77338-055-1)","authors":"A. Funk","doi":"10.7202/1077979AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1077979AR","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":44124,"journal":{"name":"McGill Journal of Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46705166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Conrad, Etienna Moostoos-Lafferty, N. Burns, Annette Wentworth
To foster the success of young Indigenous learners, our study partnered with an urban Indigenous school in Alberta’s capital region. This paper explores the decolonizing practices that emerged through the ethical relationships developed with students and staff guided by the Cree wisdom teachings of wîcihitowin and wahkohtowin. A group of Indigenous and Canadian university and school-based co-researchers worked with a class of students over four years (from grade 6 to 9) incorporating Indigenous knowledges with the mandated Social Studies curriculum. The teachings included Cree language, land-based activities, ceremony and story. Students expressed appreciation for the teachings and the opportunities they had experienced over the course of the study; it was a small step towards decolonizing education.
{"title":"Decolonizing Educational Practices through Fostering Ethical Relationality in an Urban Indigenous Classroom","authors":"D. Conrad, Etienna Moostoos-Lafferty, N. Burns, Annette Wentworth","doi":"10.7202/1077978AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1077978AR","url":null,"abstract":"To foster the success of young Indigenous learners, our study partnered with an urban Indigenous school in Alberta’s capital region. This paper explores the decolonizing practices that emerged through the ethical relationships developed with students and staff guided by the Cree wisdom teachings of wîcihitowin and wahkohtowin. A group of Indigenous and Canadian university and school-based co-researchers worked with a class of students over four years (from grade 6 to 9) incorporating Indigenous knowledges with the mandated Social Studies curriculum. The teachings included Cree language, land-based activities, ceremony and story. Students expressed appreciation for the teachings and the opportunities they had experienced over the course of the study; it was a small step towards decolonizing education.","PeriodicalId":44124,"journal":{"name":"McGill Journal of Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46334790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Collective accompaniment, as per the reflexivity approach on-in-for practice, requires the adoption of different postures, whether one is placed in the role of the accompanying or accompanied person. This article presents the lived experiences of an accompaniment process fostering research and training within an individual and collective reflexivity approach. Three types of actors are interrelated: an accompanying research director, an accompanied and accompanying doctoral candidate, and accompanied and accompanying English as a second language teachers. Advocating for an action-research approach using the first-person point of view (“I”), each actor was invited to reflect on their practice from an on-in-for perspective. The discussion presents three dimensions: the role of ethical rules, the art of questioning, and the interdependence between involved actors.
{"title":"L’accompagnement selon une démarche réflexive sur-dans-pour la pratique tel que vécu par trois types d’acteurs","authors":"Patrick Houde, Suzanne Guillemette","doi":"10.7202/1077969AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1077969AR","url":null,"abstract":"Collective accompaniment, as per the reflexivity approach on-in-for practice, requires the adoption of different postures, whether one is placed in the role of the accompanying or accompanied person. This article presents the lived experiences of an accompaniment process fostering research and training within an individual and collective reflexivity approach. Three types of actors are interrelated: an accompanying research director, an accompanied and accompanying doctoral candidate, and accompanied and accompanying English as a second language teachers. Advocating for an action-research approach using the first-person point of view (“I”), each actor was invited to reflect on their practice from an on-in-for perspective. The discussion presents three dimensions: the role of ethical rules, the art of questioning, and the interdependence between involved actors.","PeriodicalId":44124,"journal":{"name":"McGill Journal of Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43524464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}