Philip Hayworth’s Updates

  • Hayworth Update 4: Bullying and China

     

    I’d like to take the area of intervention programs and the reduction effect on bullying. I’ve included a link to the study mentioned by Dr. Dorothy Espelage in Video 5 about bullying and reducing it. The study can be found here:http://njbullyi...More

  • Hayworth Update 3: Jargon and Communities of Practice

    This update focuses on the idea of dynamics and Communities of Practice. We’ve all been in one – but what Etienne Wenger highlights is that they are often “informal” and so it’s the idea that the COPs in which we often engage are formal – at least...More

  • Hayworth Update 2: Social Constructivism and China

    I’ll tackle the notion that the socio-cultural context in which one develops – offering the “raw materials” and symbols one uses to make sense of the world – is an important element of social constructivism and the foundation of New Learning (Kalant...More

  • Hayworth Update 1: Grades as Operants for Conditioning

    My topic explores the idea that grades can be used as operants in the conditioning of high schoolers in China. According to the introductory reading, “In learning based on behaviourist principles, appropriate stimuli produce learning responses. Thes...More