Comments on: Schools without boundaries

By: Private interests, public sphere: learning from the street : Connected Communities

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:28:29 +0000

[...] point was picked up by Matthew Taylor, who fleshed the RSA’s idea of ‘schools without boundaries’ – that “in essence…we should make the work of schools, and the wider project of developing [...]

By: Milburn’s report means schools should look outwards : Matthew Taylor’s blog

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:45:36 +0000

[...] was a point I made a few days ago in the content of a post about the RSA’s forthcoming ‘Schools without Boundaries’ report. I pointed out that school [...]

By: daniel snell

daniel snell — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:39:54 +0000

I’ve been reflecting on a number of points around this debate over the last week. Many are excellently made. A bit stream of conciousness…

I’m just about to design a programme, which intends to deal with non attendance.

The inner city school i’m working with, has serious attendance issues, and as we are all aware there are a number of reasons for non attendance. (sorry for slightly hyjacking the discussion Matthew) I therefore approach the matter with some awareness to the challenges that await me.

I think at the heart of this discussion, lies the answer to the solution.

What i assert we need to do is understand why a student ‘wouldn’t chose to come to school’ – isn’t that a good starting question? Perhaps, if we approached it with a little less stigma, there’d be less drama around it. Maybe, kids aren’t engaged in school because to them at least it doesn’t meet them in some way (they find it boring in their parlance)

Even if they don’t believe in skills/knowledge/study, if they felt respected, related to, encouraged, emotionally validated, i think they’d term up at least and hang out in a conversation of traditional learning – i can’t be that hard to compete with daytime TV can it?

BTW – can anyone point me to good info/research on non attendance? That would be most helpful.

By: Ian McGimpsey

Ian McGimpsey — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:06:47 +0000

@ Martin – I really enjoyed reading that article. It certainly seems that way from the report.

By: Martin Robinson

Martin Robinson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:43:00 +0000

An example of positive, educative, relationships formed with adults?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8149422.stm