| A
short history of Storyline in Netherlands |
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 In
the late 70s Jos Letschert, working with the Institute for Curriculum
Development in the Netherlands, made contact with the approach
through the National Conference on Expressive Arts held at Jordanhill.
By a strange coincidence, some years later he came to a course
in the north of Iceland as a Council of Europe delegate only to
discover that he was meeting with Storyline again. He was one
of the founders of an international group of Storyline practitioners
(the European association for Educational Design) which was formed
and which held its first meeting at his Institute in Enschede
in 1988.
In recent years several presentations have been made at PABOs
(Colleges of Education) in Meppel, Utrecht and Eindhoven. Many
students and teachers have also visited and studied at Jordanhill
and Brenda Bruinenberg has recently completed her Master's degree
at the University of Groningen with her study in Storyline. Following
from this she was asked to design a Storyline module for the second
year students at the PABO of the Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden
(NHL).
Two important
books have been produced in Dutch, one by Jos Letschert- Op Verhaal
Komen - and the other by Erik Vos and Peter Dekkers - Verhalend
Ontwerpen.
 Dr
Piet Conijn was another visitor to Jordanhill who has since proved
very helpful in promoting Storyline. In 1995 (up-dated in 1998)
he published a book written by Steve Bell using the Local Radio
Station as a model for topic designing. This was the only Storyline
book of a series that gave a broad view of education called 'Education
as an Art'. Piet is now a director of an educational project that
encourages valuable links between schools and commercial businesses
known as 'The Educational City'.
A visit to
Jordanhill Campus by José Simons from the Hogeschool of
Utrecht and Ellen Reehorst from Groningen University demonstrated
how effectively they have adapted Storyline in relation to their
work in teaching environmental studies with older students of
secondary age and as a focus for a European project in Poland.
I have also
been involved in giving an annual Storyline input into the Headteachers
Management Course in Groningen organised by the NES OCOM.
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SLO
Curriculum Academy - The Storyline Approach
The
Institute for Curriculum Development in the Netherlands (SLO) in co-operation
with the Edith Stein College of Education hosted a five module course
for educators on The Storyline Approach on the 12th and 13th September
2005. Jos Letschert, Professor in Curriculum Studies at Twente University
introduced the course and chaired two three-hour workshops assisted
by Dr Beate Letschert-Grabbe, pedagogue and educational psychologist
and Steve Bell, chairman of European association for Educational Design
(EED). The other two modules were presented by Jan Greven from the SLO,
a Social-geographer, who spoke on 'Storyline in Close-up' and Marcel
Oude Booyink, a teacher trainer who described his experience of Storyline
and Technical Education. Amongst the interested participants was a group
of visiting educators from Africa and Indonesia. 
Storyline Wedding
A
delightful outcome from the Second International Storyline Conference
held in Elsinore, Denmark last November is the wedding of Jos Letschert
and Beate Grabbe held near Enschede, Holland on Saturday 9th October
2004. During the conference they managed to design their own love story.
Jos and Beate now have the opportunity to combine their personal and
professional enthusiasm and expertise as a very loving married couple.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Dutch Headteachers
visit to Strathclyde University
A
group of 14 headteachers who are following a two year course leading
to a Diploma in Management Studies visited the Faculty of Education
at Strathclyde University this week (starting Monday 16 February). Their
course leader Henny Lamme explained that they were very interested in
studying the Scottish system of primary education, recent developments
in schools and the latest forms of headteacher training here. The study
course was designed by Jim Allan, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of
Education, with input from members of staff. Visits were made to schools
in South Lanarkshire.
Professor Jos
Letschert
Many
of you will know Dr Jos Letschert as the Director of Primary Education
at the SLO (Institute for Curriculum Development in the Netherlands)
as well as being a founder member of the EED (European association for
Educational Design). Recently the SLO decided to create a new chair
at the University of Twente and Jos has been invited to be the first
Professor in the field of Curriculum Studies in Basic Education. This
is a part-time post and will not affect his present position with the
Institute. One of his intentions is to start research activities in
Storyline. We congratulate him and wish him all the very best in his
new post.
Important
look at Education for the Future
Two
founder members of our Golden Circle Seminar group are involved in a
new publication entitled Turning the Perspective published by CIDREE,
the Consortium of Institutions for Development and Research in Education
in Europe. Ian Barr, previously director of the Scottish Consultative
Council on the Curriculum, has written a paper and Dr Jos Letschert,
director of primary education in the Institute for Curriculum Development
in the Netherlands is the editor. Contributions are also included from
professors whose previous work is familiar to us like Luc Stevens (Netherlands),
Kieran Egan (Canada) and Uwe Hameyer (Germany).
Dutch
East India Company Storyline
Jan
Greven & Jos Letschert of the SLO (Institute for Curriculum Development
in The Netherlands) have designed a new historical Storyline on the
Dutch East India Company (VOC in Dutch). This publication was presented
by Jan at the recent Golden Circle Seminar. There was a lively discussion
on this very interesting topic and especially about the more sensitive
areas of colonial exploitation.
