A Teaching Tool for Minimising Resistance
This report introduces ‘The Wave’ as a versatile teaching tool applicable across diverse educational settings and subjects, with a particular focus on its effectiveness in addressing controversial subject matter and encouraging learners to consider multiple viewpoints or contexts different to their own.
Download the report:
The Wave | A Teaching Tool for Minimising Resistance (PDF, 200Kb)
Supporting videos
The Wave | A Teaching Tool for Minimising Resistance – Intro
The Wave | Everyone has knowledge
The Wave | People have different realities
The Wave | How to use it
Background:
The report was completed by Christine Herzog, Auckland Workers’ Educational
Association in 2008.
The tool provides a reliable, easy-to-deliver, easy-to-understand, easy-to-remember learning experience that highlights two main ideas:
- everyone has knowledge, people have different kinds of knowledge from different viewpoints and
- individuals and groups have different realities.
Published under the Ako Aotearoa Good Practice Publication Grant (GPPG) scheme.