Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140101361

Funded Activity Summary

The Lexicon Project: Analysing pedagogical naming systems from different cultures to reconceptualise classroom practice and advance educational theory. Classrooms remain the principal site of institutionalised learning. Their cultural specificity poses challenges for international comparative research. New approaches are needed. Internationally, our educational theories, research and descriptions of practice are framed in English, which names some aspects of the classroom, but ignores key aspects named in other languages. This limits our capacity to access, connect and adapt the wisdom of other cultures. The Lexicon Project will initiate cross-cultural dialogue to identify pedagogical terms from selected Asian and European educational communities and use these as analytical tools to categorise, interrogate and enrich our classroom practice, classroom research, and educational theorising.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 31-12-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $300,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education | Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development | Curriculum and Pedagogy | Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Education and Training Theory and Methodology | Pedagogy | Teacher and Instructor Development

Other Keywords

Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education | Curriculum and Pedagogy | Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development | Education and Training Theory and Methodology | Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy | Pedagogy | Teacher and Instructor Development

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