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NASC Website created
by Pete Saward and Dawn Corby,
Centre for Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia |
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NASC
(The Norwich Area Schools Consortium) is a group of seven schools, the
University of East Anglia and the
Norfolk Local Education Authority.
These different institutions were brought together by a desire
to conduct research which aims to improve teaching and learning.
Although the
NASC builds upon existing professional relationships, it was formally
established in response to a Teacher Training
Agency initiative. The consortium has a shared interest
in those pedagogical strategies which may reduce levels of disaffection,
and this issue has been the focus for research and investigation by
individual teachers and for cross-school projects.
The consortium
received funding for a three-year period, 1997 - 2000. During this
period, there were two distinct phases of research. In the
first phase, teachers focused on issues which were of particular concern
to them. This generated a rich catalogue of research papers. In phase
two, the emphasis was on cross-school work. This focused on four areas:
rewards and sanctions, classroom management, the use of ICT in modern
foreign languages and a key stage 4 enrichment programme.
The work of phase
1 was disseminated at a Norfolk LEA conference in the summer of 2000.
A conference for the dissemination of phase 2 work took place in April
2001.
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