The point of the ABC curriculum is to support capacities participants already have for assessing social spaces and the people in those spaces. Through creating this work, participants begin to articulate what they understand about their places in ways that others may find easier to listen to, thinking through what is special, what works and what does not.
Some of the key methods represented in this exhibition which facilitate this work are:
Drawing /Mapping
– drawing spaces helps us to think and learn from the patterns of bodies in space
Why? to learn to draw fields of practice and social events, delineating rules, spacing, engagement, hierarchies
Attentive Listening / Interviewing
– each child had a turn interviewing and being interviewed about a precious object that made them feel secure and supported
Why? to learn interview skills and to feel what being interviewed/research participation is like
Surrogate Voicing
– after hw writing up the story told by their partner, each child had a turn presenting their partner’s precious object in the first person
Why? to feel the responsibility of telling another’s story
Photovoice
– pupils telling the story of their school, what they love and what they would change using photography and voiced narration.
Why? Shows the pupils the value of their own perspective and the ways that telling can be done in different modes