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Hattie and Tolley at it again
A final word to the Tolleys and Hatties of this world. An alternative system would not bleat on about excellence, excellence is not something to be aimed for; it is simply and elegantly, an outcome of good teaching, of teaching for wisdom, of what it is to be good, beautiful, and true. I do not recognise those qualities in what Mrs Tolley or Professor Hattie say about education or the way they say it.... more
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NEMP gone
Leaving aside the NZCER, the one trusted assessment institution for primary schools is about to be bowdlerised. NEMP has been made contestable. And the end game? Once it has been shown that the current national standards' system doesn't work, which, of course it doesn't, the minister will shift to Australian/Canadian-type annual national tests, and national monitoring 'sampling' for the rest of the curriculum. This is what the dumping of NEMP and its replacement by the Australian monitoring system is a preparation for.... more
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Horizons, whirlpools, Sartrean secrets, John Hattie and other symptoms of the continuing education tragedy
This posting addresses the question of how an academic of such intelligence and status can be so superficial, can be, just when it matters, so unimaginative, have such fantastic blind spots, promote opposing ideas with such credibility, and come up with conclusions that seem so at odds with substantial parts of the import of his message.... more
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Reuben and WALTS
The principal had walked in while Reuben had been on one of his mental excursions, which might have been all right, except the rest of the class had become involved and were contributing excitedly. 'How do we know,' he had said, 'that the sky isn't an umbrella and the stars just chinks of light coming through?' The effect on the class had been electric, and she was about to leave the planned lesson to begin an impromptu one on the night sky.... more
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Beyond reason: the argument for the holistic
This posting was first put up in early 2009 as a preliminary to my direct analyses of John Hattie's academic and polemic trickiness. With the NZPF executive now lined up with the rest of us, I want to direct attention to the main national standards' issue: saving the New Zealand curriculum. What Tolley and Hattie have done is redefine the curriculum as literacy and numeracy and the narrow, measurable parts. That is why the previous posting was a re-run of an earlier posting ('The battle for primary school reading'); it is also why some other previous postings on the curriculum will be put up, and some new ones written. I urge that saving the New Zealand curriculum be the main item on the agenda in the national standards' issue.
The focus in this posting is on the nature of holistic education - that is, education that encompasses the duality of reasoning and feeling, the cognitive and the affective, the rational and the non-rational - because it is argued, holistic education is fundamental to a complete and humanising education.... more
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The battle for primary school reading: Part 1
This posting is how a group of women - women in primary school junior classrooms - the ones who have been the heart and soul of junior class reading for decades, have been diminished in status and spirit by phonics-focused academics as an outcome... more
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NZPF Flyer No 10: Words to deceive
I have spoken to only one participant who attended the conference (for about three minutes) but he was so incoherent with rage, out of kindness I let him be. My response to the conference is derived by one source only, the flyer.... more
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I must have been at a different conference
As well as the propaganda aimed at dividing teachers and parents, many parents were upset that the conference could not muster a quorum for the AGM. There's trouble in NZSTA mooted.... more
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Catholic schools and social justice
The choice for the Catholic system is stark: it will stand against injustuce in education or it will support the growing gaps between rich and poor schools... more
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Maori educators speak on national standards
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