Marcelo Staricoff
Presenter affiliation(s)/organisation(s):
The University of Sussex and JONK Thinking and Learning Ltd
Session one title:
The Joy of Not Knowing (JONK)
Session one abstract/brief summary:
On the verge of the publication of his new book entitled ‘The Joy of Not Knowing’ (Routledge 2021), Marcelo will demonstrate how a career of action research and collaboration as a primary teacher and headteacher and now lecturer and consultant, inspired the concepts that underpin this very innovative, creative thinking, thought provoking, lifelong-learning and collaborative approach to teaching and learning, to all areas of the curriculum and to school leadership: https://www.routledge.com/The-Joy-of-Not-Knowing-A-Philosophy-of-Education-Transforming-Teaching/Staricoff/p/book/9780367172725
This session will equip participants with a multitude of easy to implement ideas that build on current practice and that have been found to have a very positive impact on children’s love of learning and their life chances. The workshop will enable participants to:
- Inspire the children with a love of knowing and of not knowing
- Enable every child to thrive when in a position of uncertainty of findings things difficult, of not knowing or of encountering something that at first seems unsurmountable
- Develop a values led dialogic community of enquiry in the classroom where all children feel free to take risks with their thinking
- Present the teaching content in a way that promotes creative, critical and philosophical thinking across all areas of the curriculum
- Create a learning to learn classroom environment rooted on the lifelong learning dispositions; curiosity, strategic awareness, creativity, collaboration, resourcefulness and resilience
- Develop a routine to the day based on open ended challenge that makes every child to become leaders of their own learning and perceiving that anything and everything is possible
- Design and launch every academic year with a bespoke Learning to Learn Week
Session one recording(s):
https://echo360.org.uk/media/822f1ef0-0b45-49fd-94e5-1591e2c387c6/public
Session one supplementary resources:
The Joy of Not Knowing (JONK).pptx
Session two title:
Multilingual thinking in multicultural classrooms
Session two abstract/brief summary:
On the verge of the publication of his new book entitled ‘The Joy of Not Knowing’ (Routledge, 2021), Marcelo will demonstrate how a career of action research and collaboration as a primary teacher and headteacher and now lecturer and consultant, inspired the concept of establishing a classroom routine that enables children to access all areas of the curriculum by enabling them to think multilingually within a multicultural environment. This concept was recently the subject of a publication in the newly launched Education Exchange Global Platform: https://theeducation.exchange/multilingual-thinking-in-multicultural-classrooms/
This session will equip participants with a multitude of easy to implement ideas that have been shown to transform the way children feel about school, the curriculum and themselves as learners and creative thinkers. The workshop will enable participants to:
- Embrace, nurture and use the cultural and linguistic richness that every child brings with them as they enter the classroom every day to enrich every lesson and maximise the enthusiasm with every child engages in learning
- Present the learning across all areas of the curriculum in a way that enables the children to engage with it using a multilingual approach based on the theory of the philosophy of education known as the Joy of Not Knowing (JONK)
- Develop the cognitive abilities of all children by enabling them to think multilingually within a multicultural classroom
- Create very special strong pupil-family-school triangular partnerships where all families feel valued and where the cultural heritage of every family becomes central to the everyday life of the classroom and the school
Session two recording(s):
https://echo360.org.uk/media/cf163182-a8ee-416f-8cc7-63b543a0e322/public