Spiral Tasks
What spirals, and does the spiral develop or is it just going round and round? How many times do you need to teach people something before they start to understand it and learn the lesson? Teaching takes place IN time; Learning takes place OVER time
The notion of a spiral curriculum, in which learners encounter the same ideas again and again, each time learning more about them was formulated by Jerome Bruner (1966).
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Bruner introduced the notion of constantly returning to topics in order that learners would not forget what they had ‘learned’.
If learning is seen as situated then learners need to encounter the same idea in multiple contexts in order to enrich the ‘situatedness’. (see transfer).
If it is admitted that you don’t usually learn something the first time you encounter it, then the triple See–Experience–Master can act as a reminder to give learners multiple exposures to the same idea over time.
Probes & Prompts
Taking Action
Case Studies
Research Sources
Fried & Amit 2005
Bruner, J (1966), Towards a Thery of Instruction, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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Constructs, Curriculum, Pedagogy