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All questioned participants agreed with the statement:
“Cooperative Learning is potentially one of the most effective didactic methods available today.”
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“...the discursive element was fantastic.”
- Participant Usman Qureshi,
Head of
Al-Khair Primary & Secondary School
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facilitating 21st century skills through Cooperative Learning
‘‘...give students, Muslims and non-Muslims, a real stake in their own identity formation...’’
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…applicable across nation states and religions.
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- Workshop participant Conleth Buckley, Teacher and Teacher Trainer, British Council
PDF transcript available >
Presentaton at the BRAIS Conference
Edinburgh University, 11 April 2014
The Student-Centred Classroom
& the Self-Centred Student
- challenges and opportunities of Cooperative Learning
for Muslim learners
This presentation at the British Research Association for Islamic Studies presents some of the challenges and opportunities posed by Student-Centred Learning related to epistemology and identity for Muslim minority schools in the UK as well as any teacher interested in RE and P4C.
It discusses the power of Cooperative Learning to help learners find a footing in their own cultural values.
I would like over the coming weeks to break down my notes from this and other sessions at the conference and weave them into some of the ideas surrounding the Healing Fractures workshop which map out a way to put identity formation into the curriculum and into the hands of students outside the narrow scope afforded by pre-defined notions of citizenship and/or consumerism, referred to in my presentation.
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(referred to in the speech, this is from the interactive whiteboard)
•Flexibility & Adaptability
•Initiative & Self-Direction
•Social &
Cross-Cultural Skills
•Productivity & Accountability
•Leadership & Responsibility
‘‘Without a philosophy of education that can give a moral purpose to to both individuals as well as societies, it will be difficult to identify a core element that can anchor the curriculum design.’’
Roald, Anne Sofie, University of Lund (1990) reviewing Tetsuya Kitajani's
“Islamic vs. Modern Western Education: Prospect for the Future,”
American Journal of Islamic Sciences, 11:1, p.116.