We have now completed our formal research. We have been working on some final data analysis since the launch of the Time to Listen summary report. The final report contains new material on our fourth research question. This was about what arts organisations bring to teacher professional development. Our key findings were these: Although the RSC and … Continue reading arts organisations and teacher professional development
Author: pat thomson
led by students’ voices
It is important that research is communicated to interested audiences. In our case, this is particularly important as the TALE research generated a huge amount of data from students. We really want to respect the contribution that they made to the research by doing as much as we can to help make their voices and … Continue reading led by students’ voices
tale survey completed
This post is written by Corinna Geppert Some months ago I wrote a blog post called “When numbers turn into meaning…”. At this time we had just launched our WAVE 1 survey report . This report included data from over 2300 students in TALE schools all over the country. I was very excited about it … Continue reading tale survey completed
working with difficult ideas
This post was written by Pat Thomson on her visit to Thomas Tallis school in Greenwich. Studying photography is not just about learning how to make images. It is also learning how the photograph itself can be understood. On a recent visit to Thomas Tallis, I saw a visiting artist working with a Year 10 class. The artist was Dafna … Continue reading working with difficult ideas
language and literacy in the art room
People often think about art subjects as purely 'doing stuff' with paint, pencils and maybe the odd camera. However, there’s a lot of literacy practice which is specific to the art room. When I visited the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle, art room literacies were clearly in evidence. I saw : (1) Reading. Students are … Continue reading language and literacy in the art room
when numbers turn into meaning…
This post is written by Dr Corinna Geppert. As somebody who is involved into “number crunching”, doing statistics, I often wonder: What story will these numbers tell me? What sort of patterns, correlations or differences between groups of people will emerge? And then I start, do the first steps of analysis and realize that there … Continue reading when numbers turn into meaning…
an emphasis on performance
Chris Hall reports on her visit to Launceston College in Cornwall. Bryan Maywood, the head at Launceston College, keeps his old year 10 English folder in his desk drawer. The folder reminds him about his own learning in English, a subject he’s passionately interested in now. He remembers the support and advice he got from … Continue reading an emphasis on performance
wanting to join in
A lot of the research I do is ethnographic and that means I generally get to participate in what’s going on - and I get to do a lot of interesting things. However, the TALE project isn’t an ethnography, and most of our data will come from interviews and observations, as well as a very large … Continue reading wanting to join in
research partnership
One of the purposes of the Arts Council grants is to explore what happens when arts organisations work together with researchers in higher education. In the case of TALE, we have all worked together before, but in different ways and on separate projects. We hadn't anticipated any particular problems, but we have found a couple of interesting issues already. … Continue reading research partnership
arts council peer learning
Emily Pringle (Tate), Becky Parry and Pat Thomson (University of Nottingham) attended the first peer learning day for the eight research projects funded by the Arts Council. Every project gave a brief presentation of their work. We were very pleased to meet with our colleague researchers and hear about some shared concerns, particularly around ethics … Continue reading arts council peer learning
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