The Connecting Lives and Learning website at http://www.rpin.org.au/ is a standalaone resource developed by the ANSN in partnership with UNISA.

Membership of the Connecting Lives and Learning website is a must for all schools and systems seeking ways to address educational disadvantage. It offers teachers resources to help them redesign their
pedagogy to better meet the needs and interests of their students

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You can gain access to the vast resources offered on this website for a one-off membership fee starting at just $24. Click here to download the membership brochure for more information. To join simply fill out the membership application form on the last page of the brochure and post or fax back to us. Upon payment all new members will receive a username and password to access the CLL website.

About CLL

The CLL website has been designed to respond to an urgent need for innovative curriculum and pedagogical resources for teachers, schools and systems wishing to confront and address alienation in the middle years, when too many young people ‘drop out’, drift off, or are excluded from schooling.

Conceptualising CLL: Download this Powerpoint to find out more.The key idea for the research was examining ways in which teachers can redesign pedagogy that connect students’ lifeworlds to the official curriculum.

The website foregrounds teacher stories about pedagogical change across a range of subject disciplines involving deep curricular connections with student lifeworlds.

CLL provides all teachers with ways into offering rigorous and engaging teaching approaches that are relevant to their context, their students, their community, their school challenges and the requirements of the official curriculum

CLL website sections include:

The Challenge

The pedagogical challenge is about finding ways to integrate lifeworld and subject discipline knowledges in ways that don't trivialise either.

Teacher Snapshot: Download this PDF for David Kinna's snapshot of the CLL project.Teacher Stories
Find seventeen accounts of the pedagogical experiments by teachers from a range of subject disciplines, attempting to connect with different aspects of their students lifeworlds.

Key Ideas
The logic of Connecting Lives and Learning relies on a set of 'big ideas', and especially on different ways of working with the concept of student lifeworlds.

Doing Research
The teachers stories were constructed as a consequence of their own classroom inquiries. Resources for conducting similar inquires are located here.

PD Resources
This project developed professional development resources on the big ideas, and processes for sustaining professional learning community. You can find one-off activities or a planned sequence of learning.

Background to CLL