Ecology of Development Norman Jackson, Lifewide Education Copies of slides and background studies

formal education work family / home interests/ hobbies otherother Learning & developing through and across the contexts, situations and time frames of our life Lifelong learning : All learning activity undertaken throughout life with the aim of improving knowledge, skills and competencies within a personal, civic, social and/or employment- related perspective (Commission of European Communities 2001:9) Lifewide learning : All learning and personal development that emerges through activities in the multiple contexts and situations we inhabit contemporaneously at any point in our life, with the aim of fulfilling roles and achieving specific goals, and continuously developing knowledge, understanding, skills, capabilities, dispositions and values within personal, civic, social and/or employment-related contexts. PAST FUTURE PRESENT AWAYDAY

b Sat milk round daily newspaper round summer work restaurant kitchens in Newquay Christmas post 1968 Sat job supermarket 1971 summer work in Cornish tin mine months working in tin mine Start of PhD FT geology technician Teaching Assistant Kings College Ass. Professor King Abdul Aziz Uni Saudi Arabia school & PT workuniversity & PT work Principal Economic Geologist DGMR Saudi Arabia Senior Lecturer Kingston Poly HMI org closed est. new dept Uni Plymouth HEQC org merged QAA –new org LTSN new org org merged Uni Surrey dept closed HEA new org Uni Surrey CETL new org org closed Chalk Mountain Ltd new org Lifewide Education CIC new org self-employed My lifelong journey through work

MY RELATIONSHIPS with people - both existing and newly developed, and with things, objects and tools in my physical or virtual environment MY CONTEXTS & DEVELOPMENTAL SPACES home and family, educational, WORK, travel, hobbies and interests - my everyday situations MY RESOURCES that I find or create and I am able to utilise, including knowledge, expertise and tools I use to help me learn MY PROCESS created for a particular purpose. May be learning or task oriented and includes the dimensions of time, space and purposeful action. MY WILL & CAPABILITY motivate me and enable me to create my process which is the means through which I develop new knowledge, understanding and capability LEARNING ECOLOGIES MY LEARNING ECOLOGY MY HISTORY Past experiences, learning relationships and resources that I bring to my current learning project

THREE YEARS LEARNING ARCHAEOLOGY & BEING/BECOMING AN ARCHAELOGIST MY GOAL to learn archaeology ME with past knowledge, experience and orientations MY COURSE The Posthole editorial team attending archaeology conferences organising a student archaeology conference Homeless Heritage excavation & exhibition participating in numerous excavations volunteer Young Archaeologists Club Learning ecology – becoming an archaeologist

Creation of own website, written/audio/video blogs portfolio of news casts Reporter Student Newspaper Contributor student radio chat shows Significant role in university production of Lysistrata Volunteer News Reader Susy Radio Employed News Reader Jackie Radio Learning ecology – becoming a radio broadcaster

& Learning ecology – for a professional learning project

Today Emergence & mergence of learning ecologies ? 1 2 3

1 THINK ABOUT CONTEXT : WHAT, HOW, WHEN, WHY? 4. EVALUATE IMPACT ON STUDENTS’ LEARNING 3 TEACH & ASSESS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP in response to feedback 5. PLAN TO DO IT DIFFERENT/BETTER NEXT TIME DEVELOP in response to evaluation of outcomes 2 DEVELOP KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES & DESIGN STRATEGIES TO HELP LEARNERS LEARN Teaching : a continuous process of educational and professional development

SORRY YOU CAN’T DO THAT! THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY? IT WILL ALL BE WORTH IT IN THE END WHAT A GREAT WAY TO LEARN WHAT A GREAT IDEA WHAT IF WE ?... Behind every educational or professional development there is a process involving imagining, reimagining, finding out, designing, finding resources, overcoming problems, and doing what is necessary to bring ideas into existence

Ecology of Professional & Educational Development CHALLENGE: to share experiences of how we build our own ecologies to develop ourselves in our own professional or educational contexts INDIVIDUAL TASK - 15 MINS 1 Think about a developmental project you have undertaken in the last two years. and c reate a visual representation of your learning ecology explain what you were trying to achieve and why describe the process you created or got involved in to develop yourself/project identify what you did to develop/achieve, when you did them (timeline) where you did them (contexts) and who was involved (people/relationships) summarise most important achievements/outcomes from process IN PAIRS 15 MINS (preferably people you don't know very well) share and discuss your narratives of learning, development and achievement using the ecology metaphor - identify three important characteristics that can be recognised in your professional developmental processes WHOLE GROUP 10MINS share and illustrate common characteristics of professional learning ecologies