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Was a pas de deux in the offing?
My frank suggestion is that national standards were rammed through without a how's your uncle, and implemented with a campaign of vilification, so leave the government to 'solve' the problems.... more
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NZPF executive in confusion after dramatic events in Wellington
Meanwhile, back at headquarters the president is preparing to deliver a surprise.... more
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A minister habituated to a culture of myths, significant silences, distortions, and lies
Our minister is living proof, it could be said, of a networkonnet axiom, that the less you know about education, the more likely you are to be in favour of national standards. And no-one it seems is more in favour of national standards than our shrill and habituted minister of education.... more
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Breaking news: Cynical ploy of Tolley to derail the NZPF campaign
The NZPF, as an organisation, has spent a considerable amount of energy, in good faith, detailing the fundamental flaws of national standards, yet she airily waves that aside with an offer to become one of the minister's little helpers along with a stitched together group guaranteed to be an education babel.... more
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Midnight knock on the Dunedin door
This philosophy has landed Otago in its forlorn and desultory mess.... more
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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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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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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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