The Project for Enhancing Effective Learning (PEEL): 22 Years of Praxis

The learning community that constitutes PEEL was founded at one working-class high school in Melbourne, Australia, in 1985 by a group of teachers and academics who shared concerns about the prevalence of passive, unreflective, dependent student learning, even in apparently successful lessons. The project was not funded or driven by any system or institution-level initiative. In our first book (Baird & Mitchell, 1986, p. 12), we listed four goals for the project: