Playing with Light
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Author(s)
Cavicchi, Elizabeth
Hughes-McDonnell, Fion
Lucht, Petra
Date Issued
2001
Publisher
Educational Action Research
Citation
Cavicchi, E., Hughes-McDonnell, F., and Lucht, P. “Playing with Light,” Educational Action Research, 9, 2001: 25-49.
Abstract
The authors conducted action research by developing workshops that involved teacher-participants in their own exploratory learning. The authors facilitated participants in researching of what they noticed, and wanted to understand about light and shadows by structuring the environment, and the questions that were asked of them, in ways that integrated practices of teaching into those of researching. During the workshops, transitions evolved in how participants used materials to make light and dark effects and interacted with each other. Transactions also occurred in how the authors intervened to teach and research what participants did, and to encourage their reflective observations. It is proposed that such explorations offer new beginnings for extending understandings of physical phenomena and of the world, as made through our actions and thoughts.
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