{"id":1711,"date":"2014-02-12T11:48:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T19:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2014-02-12T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T19:48:53","slug":"mind-shift-are-we-taking-our-students-work-seriously-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2014\/02\/12\/mind-shift-are-we-taking-our-students-work-seriously-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Shift: Are We Taking Our Students' Work Seriously Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Story by Luba Vangelova<\/p>\n

\"studentsworkseriously\"<\/a>In the course of studying different aspects of children\u2019s environments, Dr. Roger Hart<\/a> noticed that \u201ca lot of supposedly participatory projects had a distinct air of tokenism. Children were being put on display, so to speak, as though they were actively participating, but they were not taken seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

To get people talking about this issue, Hart, who serves as director of the Children\u2019s Environments Research Group<\/a> at the City University of New York and helps lead the Article 15 Project,<\/a> a children\u2019s rights organization, adapted a colleague\u2019s ladder metaphor. He labeled the rungs:<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> Manipulation<\/p>\n

2. <\/strong>Decoration<\/p>\n

3. <\/strong>Tokenism<\/p>\n

4. <\/strong>Assigned but informed<\/p>\n

5. <\/strong>Consulted and informed<\/p>\n

6. <\/strong>Adult-initiated, share decisions with children<\/p>\n

7. <\/strong>Child-initiated and directed<\/p>\n

8.<\/strong> Child-initiated, share decisions with adults<\/p>\n

Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Story by Luba Vangelova In the course of studying different aspects of children\u2019s environments, Dr. Roger Hart noticed that \u201ca lot of supposedly participatory projects had a distinct air of tokenism. Children were being put on display, so to speak, as though they were actively participating, but they were not taken seriously.\u201d To get people … Continue reading Mind Shift: Are We Taking Our Students' Work Seriously Enough?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_national_ag","category-kqed_research_ag"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}