Talkback Classroom
Talkback Classroom is best known as a forum for young people to
International forums
During the seven years the forum ran at the
Through the international forums project founder Stephen Cutting and National Museum Education Manager developed a pedagogical model referred to as the Learning Journey whereby participating students were 'immersed' in an investigation for each forum and took part in an intensive program of interviews and activities with experts and other people connected with the theme with the object of ensuring that students were knowledgeable and passionate about issues they would raise at the forum which represented the culmination of each international project.
After losing the forum venue and major sponsor - the National Museum - project founder Stephen Cutting approached the National Press Club of Australia to host the forum. In March 2009 the Press Club hosted the Australia Japan forum featuring a panel of Australian and Japanese students interviewing the Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith and the Japanese Ambassador Taka-aki Kojima. The Australia Japan forum represented the first Talkback Classroom Learning Journey to take students to both countries as they investigated Australia/Japan relations. The forum was funded by the Australia Japan Foundation. In 2010 the project was taken up in Malaysia when a joint Australian/Malaysian student team took part in an investigation into the theme of Education in Malaysia and took part at a forum hosted by the Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur. In the same year project founder Stephen Cutting introduced the project to students in Thailand and conducted a one-week professional development workshop around ways to engage students in the classroom based on the pedagogy of Talkback Classroom. In 2012 students in Thailand and Australia teamed up to conduct the last Talkback Classroom forum, an investigation into 'popular culture' in Australia and Thailand and took part in a forum involving students in Melbourne at Coburg Senior High school and Nonthaburi school in Bangkok.
References
- ^ Smithsonian Education (2006). Talk Back Classroom. Retrieved May 11, 2006.
- ^ National Museum of Australia (2005). 60th anniversary United Nations forum. Retrieved May 11, 2006.
- ^ National Museum of Australia (2006). About the Canberra/Seoul forum. Retrieved May 11, 2006.
External links
- Talkback Classroom online
- Parliamentary Education Office programs - Parliamentary Education Office page
- UN Works |Talkback Classroom - United Nations page on 2005 Shashi Tharoor forum.
- Bishop Wrong-Footed by a Class Act - The Age article on Julie Bishop forum