Field Projects

Field projects document questions and observations that arise in real settings. They may involve teaching, mentorship, facilitated groups, companies, or software use, but they are not called experiments unless the question, method, comparison, measurement plan, ethics, and results are explicit.

Published Field Records

Learning Circle

A longitudinal field project about children’s independent learning, peer teaching, group coordination, and the gradual withdrawal of the adult facilitator.

Publication Boundary

Additional observations from coaching, organizational work, and mentorship remain private until they can be described without exposing participants and with enough context to separate observation from interpretation.

A field record should normally include:

  1. the question and setting;
  2. the role of the author;
  3. what was done;
  4. what was directly observed;
  5. what participants reported;
  6. the current interpretation;
  7. alternative explanations;
  8. limitations and privacy considerations;
  9. the next useful observation or measurement.

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