With access to so much data and the best people in the system there to provide even more information, I still cannot get a sense of what goes on, at the ground level. If I see the schools that I am shown on the one end of the spectrum and if I ask the questions I know to ask the officials from 15 years of feild experience, I will be successful in stirring up a little more detail. But for a practioner like me, its all too airy fairy.
It always amazes me how many layers there are to the transfer of learning. A new facilitator who came to me to ask advice on her lesson plan, made me start thinking on the details of the strength enhancement we do in our organisations. She had her plan, she had her timings straight. Her conceptual understanding was crystal clear. As I said to her later, if she went with what she had, put it up on the Internet and circulated it to the development world, she would have a full calendar for her workshops. Luckily for her, she was in the habit of listening well - both to herself as well as to whatever was going on around her and she asked me a critical question, that gave me the confidence to expand her exposure. She asked how the participants of her workshop would need to tweak what she taught and how she taught it such that it would make sense to their students. As we unravelled the answer to her question, we discovered that she may well be learning about how learning is transferred - an...
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