Curriculum, learning environments, critical futures and speculative/critical/participatory design with C&YP (as well as music & other interesting bits and bobs)
System Flow
System flow is about improving people’s experience of moving through a series of services, or the movement of work through a series of processes.
How pupils/staff/parents & carers/partners engage with and move through our schools is often overlooked. These resources from the NHS QI Zone are really helpful for thinking through their journey.
Two beautiful piano albums I've been enjoying recently. Amaro Freitas' album (Y'Y) came out about a year ago, and the Phil Cook album (Appalachi Borealis) is out next month. Both have such a strong sense of place running through them (as well as the obvious connection of the use of field recordings—particularly birdsong).
Very similar to Scottish Approach to Service Design (SAtSD) but some helpful ideas.
The metacrisis says there is a spiritual crisis within the political failure to attend to myriad crises (e.g. the destruction of our only liveable planet is clearly delusional but also sacrilegious); it also says that there is an epistemic crisis in the apparent inability to see between different features of problems (e.g. the emotional needs driving consumerism, the denial of death at the root of climate inertia, the scapegoat mechanism as a threat to democracy).
via Perspecteeva
Trying to be better at posting here 😊
Here are some interesting things I've found online:
“…art collective – Kairos Futura – has been trying to take what might seem like some of the city's more dystopian elements and create a vision of a utopia, or at least how that might be achieved.”
Given my role with e-Sgoil, this is an emphatic YES from me!
This is an enormously helpful way to think about approaching work.
Standout quote: For most people, social media gives you this sense that unless you care about everything, you care about nothing. You must try to swallow the world while it's on fire.
We work in a complex space, with many complex as well as complicated issues, but making use of systems thinking doesn't have to be complicated.
Music
Some brilliant, beautiful albums I've been enjoying;
Cryptophasia – Kinbrae Chimet – Mining Fearless Movement – Kamasi Washington (pre-release) Laugh Ash – Ches Smith
This is a cross post from my MSc Student blog which we use to chart our progress through our final projects.
In what ways might participatory provotyping help young people articulate preferred educational futures with particular reference to the future of qualifications in Scotland?
While it's a clunky question, it is a first step on the way to my research question. Looking back over my blog posts it's starting to get at the issues I want to explore namely:
What remains in terms of fleshing out my project is the specific area of focus. Is this a project about critically examining participatory provotyping as a methodology or am I more interested in exploring the outputs as they relate to the future of Scottish qualifications?
