Research plan - Constructivism and multiple realities in research
Really useful video
Constructivism: https://youtu.be/hR5LSwr6MFI
Constructivism - multiple realities or experiences in the classroom and interpretation of materials and ideas.
*Initial focus group to gather initial opinions and attitudes of how the subject matter could be taught.
Focus groups: https://youtu.be/BDPDw25wXP0
Suggestions of what could be taught at that teaching and level and how that could best be done.
Pragmatism ‘what works’
Round 1 - semi structured Interviews and observations of ‘what works’
Focus groups bring these teaching experiments together to reflect and share experiences and refine lesson/s and materials. What works, how can we add to it/refine it?
Design based research methodology.
Teachers as designing lessons and resources - several teachers in several settings.
Triangulation of findings (focus groups/interviews/observations/student assessments or outputs) - testing lesson ideas, what works? How did the co-produced lessons and materials work?
Lesson observations and/or voice of learners too??
Learner assessment data?
Create a concept diagram??
How many teacher participants?
What is, and how many lessons are currently taught for similar lessons e.g.online safety or cyber security?
Useful paper/guide
##Ideas for structure##:
Present the context, legal requirements and gap in education and society awareness/progress of application of digital accessibility in our digital first world/economy/society. Rationale and need for it to be for mainstream knowledge and curriculum.
Equality act and reasonable adjustments in our digital world. Digital world wider than just the web (web regulations) we need to start thinking about how we need to develop this knowledge and skills set for the future workforce and society in our educational curriculum.
Attempts at a curriculum have been made before (EU funded projects) so this builds on a similar rationale.
Introduction of primary school context and other digital learning/awareness curriculum related to safeguarding society.
Present the multiple perspectives of the subject of digital accessibility and historical backdrop/contests of knowledge (models of disability). Constructed through different lenses - interdisciplinary (technical, legal, conceptual - Lewthwaite et al). All lenses come with different perceptions of reality and complexity.
Literature review: Present how it has been taught or approached by others. Digital skillset and user/empathy perspective - digital/web accessibility or universal design. Courses to draw from course content (web accessibility course content) - but about digital for everyone- everyone’s knowledge - for a mainstream knowledge curriculum.
Lessons from historical context of teaching about disability. (Preconceptions, unlearning, retrofit and fix afterthought culture).
Discuss key points in literature (synthesis of opportunities and challenges) - multiple perspectives and challenges to overcome.
Socially constructed perspectives and historical viewpoints- study to gather these multiple voices.
Multiple experiences/interpretations in classrooms- co-production. Perceptions and teachers fear/reluctance. Opportunity to tap into and overcome those barriers - why important to target teachers as participants, also why focus groups to address and discuss barriers to create a solution so important.
Co-production as a methodology- design based research as a research plan to shape ideas of ‘what works’ - pragmatism.
Data mainly qualitative but triangulation with quantitative surveys/assessments/quiz/attitudes/awareness.
Post-positivist.
National curriculum:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statutory-guidance-schools
https://www.gov.uk/national-curriculum
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-social-health-and-economic-education-pshe
Questions to ask myself:
Keep it purely about constructivism or should I add critical theory stance, not sure this is a ‘justice’ piece, but might leak into the intro and findings. Depends on my lens of questioning and aims??
I’m more about purely ‘what works’ (pragmatism) to teach a new subject on the curriculum which in turn if adopted would help change in society, but my study is not a critique. These two stances are like the chicken or the egg?
- The main difference between critical theory and constructivism is that critical theory is a theory focusing on critiquing and changing society as a whole while constructivism is a theory that states humans construct knowledge through their intelligence, experiences and interactions with the world.
https://pediaa.com/difference-between-critical-theory-and-constructivism/
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