Relationship Based Learning

About This Project

Achievement Challenge One: Relationship Based Learning

Why do we need to take on this challenge?

To accelerate student achievement and improve educational outcomes to maximise progress and achievement particularly for indigenous and marginalised students.

RBL is a methodological approach used to collect, collate and analyse student, family/community, school staff narratives, or voices, is aligned with Emeritus Professor Russell Bishop’s method where interviews are conversations about student’s classroom experiences, the meanings they make of these experiences and what may be considered to improve students’ classroom experiences to inform learning and the maximisation of learner progress and achievement.

For who?

Students who are marginalised educationally are those who are disadvantaged by what they bring to learning settings being seen as deficiencies rather than these qualities being seen as positive attributes to build upon to promote their learning e.g.indigenous students, migrants, refugees, faith-based groups, students with learning difficulties, students of difference. In summary, all students currently not benefitting from participation in modern education systems.

 “Maori students, supported by their whanau were very clear that it it was the relationships they had with their teachers that had the greatest impact upon their learning.”