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?????The notion of Life-wide Learning

• Stephen Yip ???

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Who made this up, by the way? ?
Why bother having a new notion? ?
What is it? ?
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Is it a notion replacing Extra-curricular
activities? ?
What extra values does it bring in? ?
Does it mean that the old system is no good? ?
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1. Definition
2. Aims Meaning
3. Origins
4. International examples
5. Benefits add on
6. Misconceptions
7. Quality issues
8. Implementation issues

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(1) ?????Definition

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(2) ?????Aims meaning

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Life-wide Learning Spectrum
LWL
Seminars
Uniformed groups
Interests Clubs
Museum visits
Formal
Informal
Instruments
LWL/ Project learning
Football team training
More teacher-led Less Choice
More student-led More choice
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Enriching ??
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(3)?????Origins

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• Basic Education Curriculum Guide Bk 6
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(3)?????Origins

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(4) International examples(A story from UK)

• Extra-curricular tradition (dated from 19th
  century)
• 1990s Beyond the Extra-curricular tradition
  (Study support/Out of school Learning)

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(4) A Story from UK Things to learn

• Non-prescriptive
• Embracing (rather than excluding)
• Bottom-up and Top-down
• Emphasis on Learning (not necessarily means
  formal)
• Linking with curriculum (not necessarily means
  integration into the curriculum)
• Emphasis on quality (not necessarily means
  inspection/ accounatbility)

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(4) A Story from UK Things to learn (ii)

• Importance of research, evaluation and action
  research
• Building evidence-rich cultures (celebrating
  success) (note not evidence-based practice)
• Fostering partnerships (community groups)
• Start with existing measures and practices
• Build in NOT bolt on
• ECA and academic from confrontational to
  collaborative

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(5) Extra benefits of Life-wide Learning

• Back to the mainstream arena of education
  Learning, or even raising achievement in a
  broad sense (UK research evidence attitudes
  towards learning, school and self, attainment)
• Broaden core curriculum e.g. Increase
  cross-curricular learning opportunities
• High connectedness (workers, societal, nature)
• Provide an overview of student learning
  opportunities for school management Effective
  School
• (Leadership for learning)
• Effective learning (cultivating values,
  metacognition)

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• Actions
• Beliefs
• Concepts
• (Realms Theory David Perkins)

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(6) Common misconceptions of LWL
Extra-curricular Activities (ECA) --- Life-wide
Learning (LWL) ???? -----?????

1. ECA LWL (equivalent)
2. ECA is a subset of LWL
3. LWL is a subset of ECA
4. They refer to two different types of activities

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fact, one of the forms (??)to facilitate and to
promote Life-wide Learning in our schools. (e.g.
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through diversified mode, for example,
co-curricular activities, uniform groups,
interests groups, training activities, Such
activities serve to complement school-based
curriculum in promoting life-wide learning,
(Performance Indicators in HK Schools, QAD,
2002) ??????????????????,????? (????????)
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(7) Quality Issues

• student learning experience
• school organization of LWL

Concept / Policy----------- Quality
----------Implementation (What is it)
(What is good practice) (How to)
In the process of development via LWL Network
schools
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(8) Life-wide Learning Implementation issues

• Whole school approach (ACE)

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Implementing Life-wide Learning ACE approach

• Audit
• existing provisions (extending, enriching and
  enabling)
• potential customers who is left out? Why?
  Who could benefit most?
• Available resources

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Implementing Life-wide Learning ACE approach

• Co-ordinate
• Set up a LWL co-ordinating committee
• Establish links with school development plan and
  LWL programmes (extension ECA)
• Develop code of conduct which would operate
  during the programmes Staff development
• make arrangement delegation of tasks
• Build local partnerships

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Implementing Life-wide Learning ACE approach

• Evaluate
• Devise mechanism/ tools to evaluate the quality
  of programmes
• Investigate cost-benefit issues
• Stakeholder voice
• Celebrating success

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Building on existing success
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Innovative Mind ????
Skeptical Mind ????
My Brain
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Finally
Question What is the longest distance in this
world?
Answer The longest distance in the world is
between an official state curriculum policy and
what goes on in a childs mind.
John MacBeath, University of Cambridge
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Learning Beyond the Classroom HK style
 Learning will not take place only inside
schools and colleges, but in communities,
workplaces and families. It requires a shift in
our thinking about the fundamental organizational
unit of education, from the school, an
institution where learning is organized, defined
and contained, to the learner, an intelligent
agent with potential to learn from any and all of
her encounters with the world around her.
(Bentley, T quoted by MacBeath J. Improving
school effectiveness, 1998) ????,???,????????????
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