Small steps

This is the first time I have had to sit and mull the KPS conference and also the AARE conference which followed immediately after. For me, the KPS work appears more and more in terms of agency (not an innocent term), i.e. agency of kids, of teachers, even of principals!

Trudy's post about what motivates community underlines a key issue in this work. In practical terms it is important to begin to map and explore the ways in which new kinds of relationships between community and schools are formed. But it is also important, I think, to mull over how kids might begin to interpret 'the world outside' in other than pragmatic terms.

It's a move beyond where things are now but if this is about kids learning to engage and act in and on the world, including their school-world, then how they make sense of that world is an important part of their learning. And, I guess, this presupposes how we make sense of the world. No easy matter.