Why D.N.A.?
The 2012 conference asks the question - what do educators take for granted about teaching and learning, and what do we need to change?
Applied learning practitioners are at the forefront of redefining some of the most basic premises that underpin some of the learning frameworks within which teachers operate. Our ideas and initiatives actively question what we teach, how we teach it and how we choose and construct the environments in which teaching and learning can happen.
Our value to the broader educational community lies in our ability to develop new assumptions, and to question what’s really possible. By doing this we can challenge and encourage other educators to begin inventing new learning structures based on learners’ developmental needs.
The theme of D.N.A. – Developing New Assumptions was inspired by this video clip of Greg Whitby, Executive Director of Schools in the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta, New South Wales.
