5D: A bridge to new inter-institutional learning practices - A school-university coalition
| Document type: | Bookchapters |
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| Author(s): | Monica E Nilsson, Berthel Sutter |
| Title: | 5D: A bridge to new inter-institutional learning practices - A school-university coalition |
| Book: | Teaching and Technology in Local and Global Communities |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Pagination: | 63-85 |
| Editor: | M Nilsson & H Nocon |
| ISBN: | 3-03910273-7 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang |
| City: | Oxford |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Management (Sektionen för management) School of Management S- 371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/mam/ |
| Authors e-mail: | mnl@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | This chapter presents a case study of an in-school Fifth Dimension, 5D, project in an elementary school in the town of Ronneby in Sweden. By in-school program we mean that the 5D was part of the regular curriculum and took place during the school day. The question that prompted the research team to co-develop and implement this project was: In what ways does a local university, i.e., researchers and college teachers, best help public schools to become the educators of tomorrow. The chapter starts with a narrative of the 5D activities in the school as well as of the development of the university–school collaboration that made the 5D a reality. Later, we discuss the role of university involvement in preparing for a new kind of public education that involves experimenting with technologies and participant diversity. |
| Subject: | Education\General Computer Science\Networks and Communications |
