The Hiram Academy Development Wheel
The Hiram Academy
Ruskin Mill Educational Trust's (RMET) centre for staff professional development
Hiram Academy, Developing a Research and Learning Organisation for the Trust.
"A primary purpose of action research is to produce practical knowledge that is useful to people in the everyday conduct of their lives. A wider purpose of action research is to contribute through this practical knowledge to the increased well being - economic, political, spiritual - of human beings and their communities, and to a more equitable and sustainable relationship with the wider ecology of the planet of which we are an intrinsic part". (page 2 Reason and Bradbury)
We have embarked on a complex research process that will involve every member of staff through different pathways:
• Personal development plans and appraisals
• Continuing professional development
• Research of Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE)
• Research and learning through the development of Masters research
This will enable us to:
Understand and validate our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education, To research the validity of self directed action research methodologies and practice (PSTE assigments),
To co-create a collaborative research collegium and share emergent knowledge with universities and organisations in England, Norway and Germany, To develop research capacity for succession.
For RMET, the process of researching PSTE will start in the summer term when small groups of staff in each college will pilot stage 1. We will keep you updated with this as we develop the Hiram Academy section of the website, and with articles through our Trust magazine, Run of the Mill. The first pilot of this will take place in the summer term.
Hiram Academy PSTE course is an action research learning journey consisting of:
• interactive study of place and people
• a three stage integrated learning journey, stage 1, 2 and 3
• self directed and mentored practical research
• engagement in practical craft process and biodynamic land work
• an assignment
• a presentation of your assignment
The grass roots, college centre research will be complimented by the Masters research process which was started in 2008 when a module of the RSUC programme ‘Philosophical Values in Education’ was delivered in co-operation with Ruskin Mill Educational Trust and Hiram Academy. As a consequence of this initiative, three organisations proposed to collaborate and develop a European Masters Programme starting October 2009 when the first cohort visited Foldsae, Norway, as an introduction to research literature of knowledge, learning and understanding within the context of Steiner education.
The three organisations involved in this research proposal are:
• Rudolf Steiner University College (RSUC), Oslo
• Crossfields Institute (CI)
• Ruskin Mill Educational Trust (RMET) and Hiram Academy (HA)
For more information about the Masters research process and the Research Collegium please click here.
"A primary purpose of action research is to produce practical knowledge that is useful to people in the everyday conduct of their lives. A wider purpose of action research is to contribute through this practical knowledge to the increased well being - economic, political, spiritual - of human beings and their communities, and to a more equitable and sustainable relationship with the wider ecology of the planet of which we are an intrinsic part". (page 2 Reason and Bradbury)
We have embarked on a complex research process that will involve every member of staff through different pathways:
• Personal development plans and appraisals
• Continuing professional development
• Research of Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE)
• Research and learning through the development of Masters research
This will enable us to:
Understand and validate our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education, To research the validity of self directed action research methodologies and practice (PSTE assigments),
To co-create a collaborative research collegium and share emergent knowledge with universities and organisations in England, Norway and Germany, To develop research capacity for succession.
For RMET, the process of researching PSTE will start in the summer term when small groups of staff in each college will pilot stage 1. We will keep you updated with this as we develop the Hiram Academy section of the website, and with articles through our Trust magazine, Run of the Mill. The first pilot of this will take place in the summer term.
Hiram Academy PSTE course is an action research learning journey consisting of:
• interactive study of place and people
• a three stage integrated learning journey, stage 1, 2 and 3
• self directed and mentored practical research
• engagement in practical craft process and biodynamic land work
• an assignment
• a presentation of your assignment
The grass roots, college centre research will be complimented by the Masters research process which was started in 2008 when a module of the RSUC programme ‘Philosophical Values in Education’ was delivered in co-operation with Ruskin Mill Educational Trust and Hiram Academy. As a consequence of this initiative, three organisations proposed to collaborate and develop a European Masters Programme starting October 2009 when the first cohort visited Foldsae, Norway, as an introduction to research literature of knowledge, learning and understanding within the context of Steiner education.
The three organisations involved in this research proposal are:
• Rudolf Steiner University College (RSUC), Oslo
• Crossfields Institute (CI)
• Ruskin Mill Educational Trust (RMET) and Hiram Academy (HA)
For more information about the Masters research process and the Research Collegium please click here.
