David Schley from the charity Sense About Science discusses a series of guides to help teachers become confident questioners in the face of claims about new educational initiatives. Schools, teachers and parents are regularly introduced to new measures designed to improve education. However, education is a zero-sum game. The introduction of a new initiative inevitably comes at the expense of something else, be that time, effort, another part of the curriculum, or money. It is important to understand whether adopting a new educational initiative is worth it. In this episode, David Schley of the charity Sense About Science talks with Hamish Chalmers about an initiative to provide educators with key questions to ask when faced with decision about whether to adopt a new educational initiative. The episode is accompanied by a Questioning Guide for teachers, which can be downloaded from the Oxford Education Deanery website.
Download a copy of the questioner’s guide: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/oxford-education-deanery/resources/
Learn more about Sense About Science: https://senseaboutscience.org
Learn more about the confident questioners initiative and see guides from other areas: https://senseaboutscience.org/ask-for-evidence/questioning-guides/
Learn more about the Oxford Education Deanery: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/oxford-education-deanery/
Join our mailing list: https://education.us21.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2b84fd25801a8e6f131fdf744&id=1a0dba83bc
All content for Deanery Digests is the property of Oxford University and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
David Schley from the charity Sense About Science discusses a series of guides to help teachers become confident questioners in the face of claims about new educational initiatives. Schools, teachers and parents are regularly introduced to new measures designed to improve education. However, education is a zero-sum game. The introduction of a new initiative inevitably comes at the expense of something else, be that time, effort, another part of the curriculum, or money. It is important to understand whether adopting a new educational initiative is worth it. In this episode, David Schley of the charity Sense About Science talks with Hamish Chalmers about an initiative to provide educators with key questions to ask when faced with decision about whether to adopt a new educational initiative. The episode is accompanied by a Questioning Guide for teachers, which can be downloaded from the Oxford Education Deanery website.
Download a copy of the questioner’s guide: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/oxford-education-deanery/resources/
Learn more about Sense About Science: https://senseaboutscience.org
Learn more about the confident questioners initiative and see guides from other areas: https://senseaboutscience.org/ask-for-evidence/questioning-guides/
Learn more about the Oxford Education Deanery: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/oxford-education-deanery/
Join our mailing list: https://education.us21.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2b84fd25801a8e6f131fdf744&id=1a0dba83bc
Who Influences the Career Choices of Young People in Care?
Deanery Digests
15 minutes
7 months ago
Who Influences the Career Choices of Young People in Care?
Dr Mariela Neagu discusses her research exploring the experiences young people who grew up in care when it comes to making education and career choices. Young people who grow up in care constitute one of the most vulnerable groups in society. Many of them enter care during adolescence, a critical time for development, when they form their identities, set their future aspirations and make education and career choices, usually with support from their family. In the absence of family support and influence, the risk of young people leaving care to end up not being not in education, employment or training (NEET) is much higher than in general population and only a small proportion of them go into higher education. In this episode, Dr Neagu discusses findings from interviews with 12 young people (over 18) who spent their teenage years in foster or residential care, and three professionals who work with young people to support them with education and employment. The research focussed on how the young people had decided what to do in the future, and who or what influenced and supported them.
The Deanery Digest (a plain language summary) of this research can be viewed and downloaded here: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/oxford-education-deanery/digest/who-influences-the-career-choices-of-young-people-in-care-vocational-identity-formation-in-the-absence-of-family-support/
Mariela’s Socials: https://marielaneagu.com/ X @MarielaNeagu, LinkedIn Mariela Neagu
Learn more about the Oxford Education Deanery: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/oxford-education-deanery/
Join our mailing list: https://education.us21.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2b84fd25801a8e6f131fdf744&id=1a0dba83bc
Deanery Digests
David Schley from the charity Sense About Science discusses a series of guides to help teachers become confident questioners in the face of claims about new educational initiatives. Schools, teachers and parents are regularly introduced to new measures designed to improve education. However, education is a zero-sum game. The introduction of a new initiative inevitably comes at the expense of something else, be that time, effort, another part of the curriculum, or money. It is important to understand whether adopting a new educational initiative is worth it. In this episode, David Schley of the charity Sense About Science talks with Hamish Chalmers about an initiative to provide educators with key questions to ask when faced with decision about whether to adopt a new educational initiative. The episode is accompanied by a Questioning Guide for teachers, which can be downloaded from the Oxford Education Deanery website.
Download a copy of the questioner’s guide: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/oxford-education-deanery/resources/
Learn more about Sense About Science: https://senseaboutscience.org
Learn more about the confident questioners initiative and see guides from other areas: https://senseaboutscience.org/ask-for-evidence/questioning-guides/
Learn more about the Oxford Education Deanery: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/oxford-education-deanery/
Join our mailing list: https://education.us21.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2b84fd25801a8e6f131fdf744&id=1a0dba83bc
