International visitors to KGS – The Learning School Group
International Student Research Project 2007 – 2008.
The Learning School project(LS9) is one school self-evaluation model, which in line with current social developments have seen young people become more active and participative in contributing to debate about matters which affect them and engages students as the evaluators of learning. School self evaluation readdresses outdated democratic imbalances in evaluation, encourages students to be participative and active contributors to learning evaluation and to be more responsible learners. This year’s research project for LS9 is investigating ‘A Curriculum for Living and Learning in the 21st Century’. From this we have chosen to focus on developing ‘A Global Campus’ as an example of a curriculum for the 21st
Century could be. It aims to be created, developed and shaped, over the course of the year, through meeting the students’ visions of learning for the future. By the end of the research year (June 2008) it is intended there will be a visual presentation of what ‘A Global Campus’ is according to students across the world. It will incorporate what students of today feel young people of the future should study, how they should study, where they should study and with whom they would learn.
LS9 will have the completed visual presentation on offer to schools may they wish to use the research to supplement their own investigations on a curriculum of the 21st Century and what the future of living and learning may be for students.
Topic: The Learning school concept
The project has a uniquely international dimension, as the members which make up the research group represent the schools of an international partnership of schools known as the Global Classroom. Those nominated to become Learning School participants are typically either current or recent high school students. Over the course of ten months, the group conducts research into learning issues in each partnership school – taking them to a diverse range of countries and social, cultural and economic situations. This translates to a rich social, cultural, personal and academic learning experience for group members in particular, but also for students in participant schools, host families, wider communities and experts.
Learning School group researchers
Javier Vazquez, 26 Karin Rylander, 19
Madrid, Spain Ånge, Sweden
Jade de Klerk, 17, Desiree Risberg, 19
Cape Town, SA Ånge, Sweden
Marcus Nicolson, 17 Maya Whittall, 22
Shetland Isles,UK Shetland Isles,UK
Stepan Pekarek, 17
Zlin, Czech Republic
Visiting the following Schools…
Bobergsgymnasiet, Sweden
Anderson
High School,
Shetland Islands
Kirkwall
Grammar School,
Orkney Islands
Gymnazium Zlin, Czech republicGraf
Friedrich Schule, Germany
West Windsor High School, USA
Lake Ginninderra College, Australia
South Pennisula High School, South Africa
email: lwe.asrcnhinogoslocfhaomobl9ti@ognm.oargil.com
