Negative Social Inheritance - research, facilitation, and analysis project
Nine networks of upper secondary schools (stx, hhx, htx, and hf) has implemented development projects aimed at improving the possibilities of students whose parents have not attended an upper secondary school themselves. DSE's project followed the projects and analyzed the transverse experiences.
DSE's research and analysis project has contributed to the qualification and collection of transverse experiences and conclusions from the school-based network projects, which were initiated January 2010.
The project has secured a connecting thread throughout the school project in the form of focus points, which enables an overall assessment of the experiences and provides a background on which to formulate recommendations for further development in of supporting students whose parents have not attended an upper secondary school themselves. The project is financed by the Danish Ministry of Education, DSE and the participating schools.
For more information and latest report (in Danish) see the Danish website.
Participants from DSE
Lars Ulriksen
Christine Holm
Aase H. Bitsch Ebbensgaard (Aebbensgaard@ind.ku.dk)
Project duration
The project started December 2009 and ended April 2011.
A second round a network project began January 2011 and ends July 2012, for more information: Gymnasiefremmede elever - følge-, faciliterings- og analyseprokt (in Danish).
Short project description
Purpose
The purpose of the project is to contribute to the qualification of and collection of transverse experiences and conclusions from the school-based network projects with start January 2010, with focus on supporting the output of students whose parents have not attended an upper secondary school themselves. The network projects aim towards developing teaching in chosen subjects at the four different upper secondary schools (stx, hhx, htx, and hf) to counter the difficulties that such students, according to research, might have in those subjects.
The network schools will carry through development work and they will experiment with pedagogical forms and they will exchange experiences about the experiments. The goal with the transverse research, facilitation, and analysis project is to secure a connecting thread through the school projects which makes it possible to make an overall assessment of the experiences according to specified focus points, and on that behalf formulate recommendings for further development in the process of supporting the output of students whose parents have not attended an upper secondary school themselves.
The focus points have to be the same for the network projects without necessarily them being exhaustive in relation to problem formulations and development goals of the network projects.
Design
The research, facilitation, and analysis project (FFA project) has three purposes:
Research:
The project is to secure an academic coordination of the network projects. The FFA project is to follow the network projects in a way so that every project to as high degree as possible can supplement and learn from each other and at the same time secure a transverse connection between the network projects. The coordination will contribute to the overall result of the development project as well as it will support the local network projects. The FFA project will follow the network projects closely and it will therefore be able to ask the projects to disseminate certain angles and aspects of their projects and experiences, and recommend (but not dictate) the projects to supplement or prioritise particular aspects.
Facilitation:
The project is to offer academic sparring and facilitation to the network projects. This academic facilitation occurs like this:
- The start conference where the frames and the research-related basis for the network projects are presented and discussed. The start conference will therefor also contain workshop elements.
- Two joint meetings with the network coordinators during the project.
- Two joint meetings with the school coordinators during the project.
- A local meeting with each network project.
- If necessary, ad-hoc meetings to a limited extend where the network coordinators can pull on the knowledge which the FFA project contains.
- Academic sprarring through the project website, access to written commentation of the descriptions of initiative etc.
Analysis:
The project has to summarise the overall result of the development projects from results, experiences, and evaluations from the network projects, concerning what works and what other questions and needs the projects point towards. The analysis will primarily be based upon the feedback the network projects contributes with, with supplements from the FFA project's own experiences from the research and fascilitation part and put into perspective in relation to already existing research and experiences from other projects.