Hi Gillian,
I saw your site before. It looks great. I think we have 2 very different practices so hopefully there's room for us all.
I've applied social norms to learning as well as support and I've implemented it for staff and for students over several years.
I searched the literature and found nothing the same as my approach although LaBrie used the technology in a different way.
Please do let me know if I'm labouring under a misperception about Shared Thinking. I think it's at least a bit different as a pedagogy as well as a technique :-)
Best Wishes,
Nick
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Nicholas Bowskill,
Faculty of Education,
University of Glasgow
Scotland.
Shared Thinking - Collectivist Pedagogy
http://www.sharedthinking.info
On 2 Aug 2011, at 15:04, Gillian McGready <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Nick
>
> I too offer consultancy in the North East on Social Norms, please see my
> blog www.social-norms-perspectives.co.uk and website
> www.oakleafconsultancyukltd.co.uk having had several years experience
> reducing risk taking behaviour in young people.
>
> Best wishes
> Gillian McGready
>
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> Subject: Shared Thinking
>
> Dear All,
> I am near to completing my PhD at University of Glasgow. I've developed a
> group-generated approach to social norms called Shared Thinking. I
> implemented it in different institutions and it went down really well for
> all kinds of different applications. I thought some of you might be
> interested.
>
> It uses voting technology but not to present ready-made options. These are
> group-specific instead. Through creating a sense of belonging
> (identification) the idea was to foster alignment to the situated actual
> group-norms. We found it effective for a variety of applications.
>
> I've about 3 months before leaving Glasgow and have no job hence I've set up
> a consultancy around Shared Thinking as an innovative social norms approach.
> We've implemented it in groups of up to 300 in a single session, using
> interactive whiteboard technology, and I've developed a whole system of
> activities and support for the process. It also provides detailed measures
> of group-situated norms.
>
> I plan to offer some workshops after the summer holidays - probably in York
> (I live in Malton now) and if anyone is interested in knowing more I'm happy
> to respond. There are a few articles already in press to appear soon and the
> web site is http://sharedthinking.info .
>
> Nick
>
> Nicholas Bowskill
> School of Education
> University of Glasgow
>
> http://sharedthinking.info
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