4 Scenarios, FISh and learning in groups
“We begin to understand others when we can imagine ourselves in their world and we make sense of ourselves by weaving stories.” (Muncey, 2010, 16)
Individual inquiry
In advance of each unit, we invite you to fully engage in the individual warm-up activities. These will help you to foster fruitful and critical conversations with your peers when you start working on the scenario and enable you to work progressively on the assignment for this module.
Collective inquiry using scenarios
Four learning scenarios will guide our learning through this module, one for each unit, in which you will engage with some of your peers in small groups.
For each unit, you will find 2 scenarios in Part 2 of the companion, one for a school setting and one for a university setting. Each has multiple challenges within it. With your group you will need to agree which scenario you will use for your inquiry and what you would like to achieve. In each unit, you will find a template how you can work collaboratively on achieving your group goals.
Contextualising scenarios
Please note, you are welcome to further personalise and contextualise all the scenarios so that they closer align to your professional context and include challenges that are closer to the educational reality you are familiar with. To make further changes to a scenario, you are invited to visit Part 2 of this companion and follow the guidelines there.
Together as a group, you will use the FISh model (Nerantzi and Uhlin, 2012) to work on a specific challenge you will identify in each of the scenarios and propose a solution based on your inquiry.
For each scenario you will have one unit which stretches over two weeks to work on and share your outcome.
In the second week you will report your outcome back to another group and provide feedback to the other group.
Be mindful that this type of work and learning means that you are expected to engage in group work activities outside the seminars.
Teams
Your digital collaborative space is the module space in Teams, which you will use during the module.
