This session is part of an ESD-Net 2030 webinar that will take place on Thursday, 30 March 2023, 13:00-15:00 CET.
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The Disciplinary Intuitions team at the National Institute of Education, Singapore has been collaborating closely with teachers in the city-state and the wider East Asian and South Asian region since 2009. The team is led by Kenneth Y T Lim, and works with policy makers, school leaders, and teachers in the design of learning environments which foreground the intuition of learners from phenomenological perspectives. The team has found particular resonance with ESD as the intuitions of novices and students are closely tied to embodied practice and tacit knowledge structures within local communities. The work of the team is described at https://sites.google.com/site/disciplinaryintuitions.
Workshop description: Have you wondered how we may nurture values among our students in support of sustainable development? What about how curricula may be designed to develop climate literacy among youth and the leaders of tomorrow? In this workshop, you will hear the voices of young people themselves, as they share four examples of how they have conceptualised, designed, and enacted citizen science investigations inspired by observations from their own respective local environments. From promoting appreciations of ecological biodiversity, to understanding sleep and concentration better, to exploring the relationships between microclimatic stressors and our physiological and neurological responses - the examples all have in common that they do not rely on expensive and fragile industrial-grade equipment which cannot be taken out of the lab. Be inspired by the stories of the students as they share their ups and downs through their respective investigative journeys, and their hopes as young makers for the future.
Target audience: participants from all sectors in learning and education policy. Particular interest to education policy-makers and school leaders from the Global South.
Prompting questions to prepare the workshop:
Is there a place for local knowledge in policy making within my sphere of influence?
How is local knowledge valued across different generations in my community?
How does my learning community navigate the tensions (if any) between local knowledge and the paradigm of centralised top-down knowledge delivery?
Which everyday phenomena from within my local area might be tapped as resources for learning for students?
Facilitator:
Kenneth Y T Lim is a Senior Research Scientist who operates at the intersection of cultural anthropology, the learning sciences, and cognitive psychology. Kenneth sits on the Editorial Board of the Elsevier Gold Open Access journal 'Computers and Education Open'. He is one of about a dozen people worldwide to have been invited by UNESCO as a member of the organization's inaugural Symposium on the Future of Education for Sustainable Development (Asian case study), 2016 - 2017. His team has been constituted since 2009, and includes expertise in game design, philosophy, and data science. Student-members of the team represent high schools from across Singapore, all of whom have a common interest in helping their peers and teachers co-design meaningful learning experiences.