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The Learning Continuum: Extending Student Learnings in World History
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The Learning Continuum: Extending Student Learnings in World History

Marcus P Bussey
2011 Learning & Teaching Week Program and Abstracts Book, p.15
Learning & Teaching Week, 2011 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 19-Sep-2011–23-Sep-2011)
University of the Sunshine Coast
2011
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Specialist Studies in Education world history student learning
World History approaches learning as a transdisciplinary engagement that incorporates personal, social and technological domains. This talk outlines strategies that engage students in learning along this continuum. Explorations of 'curricula abundance' will move from 1. students' identification with the subject of World History as a meaningful extension of their current life context to 2. IT experimentation with Twitter and Facebook and other online learning possibilities. In this the new set of Graduate Attributes confirm the open-ended learning continuum that the world history courses seek to model. The challenge for courses such as History is to shift student's expectations around learning from the dominant utilitarian and consumerist goal oriented (closed system) approach, to expansive and life long learning (open system) modalities. Such learning focuses on increasing each student's tolerance for the uncertainties inherent to complexity. The primary tool for such work are key concepts that bring a level of coherence to what philosophers Deleuze and Guattari called the 'Chaosmos'. As an educator this involves developing a collective story around the nature of learning as both a personal and collective enterprise. The inner story for students involves them in slowing down and developing a sense of the value and meaning of scholarship, and the rigor and excellence this involves. The collective story is about outreach and relevance while exploring a range of learning modalities, what the social entrepreneur David Gershon calls the 'growing edge', that include emergent avenues such as Facebook and Twitter.

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