Classrooms on the Danube: An exploration of the quality of classroom life.

After a year of blogging, exploration remains a key feature of “Classrooms on the Danube” and the framework of exploratory practice, as conceptualised by Dick Allwright and Judith Hanks, is still my preferred way of trying to understand what goes on in classrooms and also as a way of working with teachers in a non-threatening, stress-free environment. [...]

What is  quality exactly? And what is quality of life in the classroom? After working as a language assistant in a school in Berchtesgaden in Bavaria in 1975/6 I came back to Britain to go to university. My summer book reading was “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by Robert Pirsig which was basically [...]