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Cooperative Learning & the Knowledge Café format
Student-centred enquiry
for adults
Engaging the burning conundrum of education, community building, religion, identity, attainment and social cohesion in multicultural Britain:
“Werdelin's cooperative learning package can be described in three words: Innovative, Engaging, and Effective.
A must for critical, creative, and transformative education!”
- Mohammad Elshimi, author of
De-radicalisation interventions as echnologies of the self:
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
Read more on
Healing Fractures II - Beyond Birmingham?
Islamic Awareness Week, Norwich, March 17, 2015
werdelin E D U C A T I O N
facilitating 21st century skills through Cooperative Learning
‘‘The beauty is that Cooperative Learning works in any institution, in any subject and requires no change to lesson plans, curricullum or materials. Use it five minutes a week, and you have gained.’’
Muslim Faculty of Advanced Studies
Research consultant to Muslim think-tank
The Muslim Faculty of Advanced Studies is an academic fellowship organisation engaged in study, teaching and research to bring new perspectives to academics and policy makers.
Drawing from the rich Islamic educational heritage to contribute positively to the current crisis in education, this research project explores the uncritical adoption by Muslim governments and Muslim minority schools in the West of dominant trends in Western education; in particular, the challenges and opportunities of the student-centred classroom and its inherent social constructivism fundamentally re-framing of the concepts of authority, truth and the role of the individual.
Rashidun Supplementary Schools
Professional tools for community-driven education projects
Rashidun is a supplementary Islamic education project providing a balanced perspective of Islam and high aspirations in future studies.
Werdelin Education has tailored a combination of 21st century British Muslim and CL Skils & Mastery to facilitate these goals to Ofsted standards.
Cooperative Learning is ideal for community-based education projects because it allows NQTs to deliver an traditonal values curriculum using effective, engaging student-centred learning.
Furthermore, the ongoing interaction and negotiation forms an ideal theatre to train both higher level thinking and tarbiyya (character development).
We are proud to help Rashidun create "young people who are thinkers and doers and to create a better and more vibrant community for the future." (Rashidun)
Booking for 2015-16
now open
We have successfully concluded the pilot of the Enquiry & Immersion field trips for primary and are very grateful to have received such positive pupil feedback.
“I learnt so much I think it would have taken a week at school to learn the same amount of knowledge…”
What makes the programme so special is that it has and is being organically developed in collaboration with the local school community... more >
“Fun because I got to share all I knew with other people and got to help them learn. Also learned a lot from others.”
Book now:
‘‘...The evaluations for the intervention have been outstanding with student teachers suggesting this should be compulsory for all.’’
McAlister, Clare (2003)
University of Strathclyde, Development Projects > Cooperative Learning