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A stinker by any other name is still a stinker
So why don't we go straight to their system. Why go through a complicated way to get knee deep in it, when there's a straightforward way to end up in the same place.... more
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Calculated epiphany now: the partial turning of John Hattie
As I state in the heading to this posting I consider Hattie's change of direction a calculated one; we'll have to wait and see how permanent it is. As well, in any retreat, there's always a bit of a mess left behind in the headlong dash for safer ground. That, however, is for later, tonight let's party.... more
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Small school axing threat: Oh no! Not again!
I'm sure the metaphor the bureaucracies see in what they are doing to small country schools is institutional euthanasia. They would see themselves as assisting schools to make a dignified departure.... more
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To hold to account those who take cheap shots ...
Ivan Snook: 'For many years, Smythe has provided a valuable service to education by being a voice for teachers and holding to account those who advance, or uncritically accept, ideological views of education. His networkonnet has an important role to play in encouraging ctitical debate about educational policy and practice.... more
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Hattie and the Official Information Act: Initial foray
Dear readers, I thought I'd make a discreet enquiry under the Official Information Act about how the ministry and their favourite son, their golden haired boy, John Hattie, were getting on.... more
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The Hattie series Part 3: Visible Shipwreck
Research has its place but our professional lives are more enriched when academics create education ideas greater than their research. Hattie, sadly, has managed the the considerable feat of producing education ideas even more dismal than his research.... more
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The Hattie series Part 2: Eliding on
The central argument of this posting remains invariable: Hattie's road to the Americanisation of New Zealand education is paved with with sleight-of-hand research and murky ideological motivation. A recent article by Ivan Snook in the 'Education Review' (April 3, 2009) said that Hattie's research could 'merit Eysenk's judgement "garbage in garbage out" ' I agree (the Americanism is most appropriate), though I would change it to 'garbage in meta-garbage out'.... more
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The Hattie series Part 1: Eliding on thin ice
Leaving aside, however, what might be a meeting of minds with Anne Tolley, does he have a view of himself playing a central role in a prospective performance-pay agency along with his Auckland University commercial arm, and Multi Serve of which he has just become a new board member (along with John Langley, the newly appointed chief executive)?... more
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A talk to Tokoroa schools
The 'Thinking' competency statement says 'Intellectual curiosity is at the heart of this competency' - so there you go; that would nearly do for me as an encompassing criterion; but not quite because it doesn't do justice to the affective part of thinking. As a result, my suggestion is that the criterion refer to 'intellectual and affective curiosity'.... more
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Portrait of a professor ...
The young man followed also with his ears the accent and intervals of the professor's voice as he spoke gravely and cordially of indifferent themes, the holidays which had just ended, overseas conferences, changes in faculty personnel. The grave and cordial voice went on easily with its tale and in the pauses the young man felt bound to set it on again with repectful questions. He knew the tale was a prelude and his mind waited for the sequel.... more
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