CLL offers teachers and school systems a ‘turnaround pedagogy’ that works – even in our most challenging schools.

Membership of the Connecting Lives and Learning website is a must for all schools and systems seeking ways to address educational disadvantage.

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About CLL

The CLL website has been designed to respond to an urgent need for innovative curriculum and pedagogical resources for teachers, schools and systems wishing to confront and address alienation in the middle years, when too many young people ‘drop out’, drift off, or are excluded from schooling.

The key idea for the research was examining ways in which teachers can redesign pedagogy that connect students’ lifeworlds to the official curriculum.

The website foregrounds teacher stories about pedagogical change across a range of subject disciplines involving deep curricular connections with student lifeworlds.

CLL provides all teachers with ways into offering rigorous and engaging teaching approaches that are relevant to their context, their students, their community, their school challenges and the requirements of the official curriculum.

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CLL website sections include:

The Challenge
The pedagogical challenge is about finding ways to integrate lifeworld and subject discipline knowledges in ways that don't trivialise either.

Teacher Stories
Find seventeen accounts of the pedagogical experiments by teachers from a range of subject disciplines, attempting to connect with different aspects of their students lifeworlds.

Key Ideas
The logic of Connecting Lives and Learning relies on a set of 'big ideas', and especially on different ways of working with the concept of student lifeworlds.

Doing Research
The teachers stories were constructed as a consequence of their own classroom inquiries. Resources for conducting similar inquires are located here.

PD Resources
This project developed professional development resources on the big ideas, and processes for sustaining professional learning community. You can find one-off activities or a planned sequence of learning.