Making learning possible : the use of variation in the teaching of school economics

The Learning study: recent trends and developments

“…The Learning study was first incepted in Hong Kong in 2000 through the "Catering for Individual Differences -Building on Variation" project (the CID(v) Project) and Pang's (2002) PhD study, "Making learning possible: The use of variation in the teaching of school economics". The CID(v) Project was a three-year research project (2000)(2001)(2002)(2003), in which a team of researchers worked closely with two Hong Kong primary schools.…”

“…For the study that was closer to the design experiment (e.g. Pang’s, 2002 study), a comparison group was added. This type of control variable is always introduced alongside an experimental group (in this case, the Learning study).…”

The Price of Participation: Teacher control versus student participation in classroom interaction

“…Within variation theory (Marton & Booth, 1997;Marton, Tsui & Runesson, 2004), there has been a fruitful interest in addressing the question of what is learned (cf. Emanuelsson, 2001;Pang, 2002Rovio-Johansson, 1999Runesson, 1999). This quite recent theoretical and empirical development shares a long-standing interest for the content of learning with other approaches and draws especially upon the phenomenographic approach (Marton, 1981).…”

Worlds Represented: The March of the Penguins towards the Jug of Water

“…The anthropological perspective shows the results from the meanings that students and teachers assigned to Chilean education in the context of a social movement that questions the laws, procedures and changes introduced to the educational reform of 1990, for this reason this ethnography contributes. Elements for the discussion of the current problem: the tensions of Chilean education not yet resolved [15][16][17].…”

“…This methodological proposal has allowed us, in the last decade, to address different educational scenarios, making visible, for example, from the natural and geographical context human adaptation to extreme climates, ethnic approaches, inclusion and learning, among others, however, the starting point of the acquired experience was this doctoral thesis [16].…”