Building bridges symposium

A few weeks ago I attended the symposium ‘Building bridges for historical learning: connecting teacher education and museum education’ at the University of Canberra. It had been a long time between fora and it has taken me a while to reflect. Thanks to the organisers and the speakers for a stimulating couple of days – I’m now cogitating concepts and (re)defining terms such as ‘pedagogy’ and ‘constructivism’. The thread of ‘learning’ and ‘teaching’ echoed the current preoccupation with the learner and learning, but then who learners are (their circumstances) and how they learn are important influences on my teaching practices/methods.  I admired Eva Dobozy’s paper for its thoroughness and honesty and I was inspired by Meg Kelham’s present peopled pedagogy – ‘if it works in the Northern Territory it’ll work anywhere’. Yay say I. If anyone is interested to hear more you can find the papers online.