A measure of human rights competence in students enrolled on the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Parish
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Baccalaureate ◽  
International Baccalaureate Diploma

Logic hybridity within the International Baccalaureate: the case of a state school in Poland

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Parish
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
International Baccalaureate ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
State School ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
School Learning ◽  
International Baccalaureate Diploma

This article takes a ‘vertical’ comparative case study approach to the study of the human rights logic of the International Baccalaureate. It explores how the global human rights logic is experienced and adhered to by students taking the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in one state school in Poland. As part of a larger study the article uses the data scores from the Human Rights Competence Development Survey (Parish, 2018) as a measure of the level to which students adhere to the human rights logic of the International Baccalaureate. Semi-structured interviews with a small sample of students and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Coordinator were conducted to explore how those students experience the International Baccalaureate human rights logic in an attempt to understand why they have or have not developed high levels of adherence. The findings indicate that adherence to the human rights logic varies depending on factors both within and beyond the school learning community. What also becomes clear is that there is logic hybridity as the human-rights-promoting logic competes with the more pragmatic concerns of examination success and university ambitions.

scholarly journals Developing independent learners

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Pavey
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
International Baccalaureate ◽  
Independent School ◽  
School Community ◽  
International School ◽  
Physical Design ◽  
Independent Learning ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Statutory Requirement ◽  
International Baccalaureate Diploma

Box Hill School is an independent school in Surrey, England. In 2008 the English curriculum was abandonedin favour of the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IBD). A library is a statutory requirement of theInternational Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) endorsement who also recommend this be managed by aqualified teacher-librarian. In May 2008, I was employed to create a library and develop independentlearning throughout the school. This paper considers the rationale behind the physical design. It outlines theimplementation of independent learning in an international school community where no infrastructure topromote this style of teaching and learning previously existed.

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