BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR EXPLORATORY PRACTICE
1. Try to understand first, before you try to change anything, in case you discover that change is not necessary, or perhaps not desirable (or perhaps not actually possible).
2. Don't let your work for understanding get in the way of your main purpose, and try to find ways of working for understanding that actually contribute to achieving your main purpose (for example: teaching or learning).
3. Make sure you're working to understand something you really care about, that is really relevant to your own interests and concerns. This won't be a problem if you're a teacher and deciding for yourself what you want to understand, but if you want your learners to help, then find something it is reasonable to expect they will care about too.
4. Make sure you don't 'burn yourself out'. Instead, try to make sure that your work for understanding is so well integrated into your working life, so much a part of what you normally do anyway, that you can carry on doing it forever.
5. Try to ensure that your work for understanding makes friends rather than enemies. In other words, let other people share in the fun, but don't take their cooperation for granted, and try to make sure they get as much out of it as you do.
6. Try to ensure that everybody's understanding is developed, not just your own.
Dick Allwright, Lancaster, March 2001 .
This is a revised combined document of the rationale produced by Dick and Inés some time ago, and a re-statement of the set of principles, given more internal coherence than before.
PRÁTICA EXPLORATÓRIA EM SETE PRINCÍPIOS
Colocar a qualidade de vida em primeiro lugar.
Trabalhar para entender a vida na sala de aula.
Envolver todos nesse trabalho.
Trabalhar para a união de todos.
Trabalhar para o desenvolvimento mútuo.
A fim de evitar que o trabalho esgote seus participantes, integrar este trabalho para o entendimento com as práticas da sala de aula.
Fazer com que o trabalho seja contínuo e não mais uma atividade dentro de um projeto.
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