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Monthly Archives: June 2017
NZEI betrayal again: this time computers
I was part way through a second posting alert about NZEI betrayal over CoLs and I said there was something sinister about NZEI and its behaviour generally. Then the computer madness struck. The following is written hastily and in a … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum, Education Policy, NZEI
Tagged Computers, Curriculum, Education, Education policy, NZEI, Schooling, Teachers
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Attack! 116 … and the rabbit bobs past!
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
Posted in Attack, Schooling, Teaching
Tagged children, Curriculum, Developmental, Education, Schooling, Teachers
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Attack! 115 Some school years in the golden weather
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
Posted in Attack, Curriculum, Schooling
Tagged children, Curriculum, Education, Schooling, Teachers
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This is the moment for decisive action against CoLs Part 3
[1988, kitchen table, scratching away with a pen, and for some reason I get on to collaboration.] [This is just a post-note to Parts 1 and 2. I cannot remember what occasioned it. I don’t know whether it was some … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy, Schooling
Tagged Curriculum, Education, Education policy, Ministry of Education, Neoliberalism, Politics, Schooling, Teachers, Tomorrow's Schools
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This is the moment for decisive action against CoLs Part 2
While what follows may look somewhat distant from the content of Part 1, the intention is to embolden one of the teacher organisations to act decisively against communities of learning (government-imposed local institutions) by looking back so that mistakes of … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy, NZEI, Schooling
Tagged Community of Learning, Education, Education policy, National standards, Neoliberalism, NZEI, Politics, principals, Schooling
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This is the moment for decisive action against CoLs Part 1
This is the moment – this is the moment for decisive action, the CoLs must be disrupted to their eventual diminution or disappearance, or school education is going to have another generation of learning decline and professional limitation. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy, National standards, Political
Tagged Clusters, Community of Learning, Education, Education policy, ERO, National standards, NZEI, NZPF, Politics, principals, Schooling
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Attack! 114 In which Pooh looks for a 21st Century Education Part 4
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
Attack! 113 In which Pooh looks for a 21st Century Education Part 3
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
Posted in Attack, Schooling
Tagged Curriculum, Education, Education policy, Schooling
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Attack! 112 In which Pooh looks for a 21st Century Education Part 2
Welcome to ATTACK! ATTACK! is a two-page occasional publication giving attention to the curriculum – the holistic curriculum. ATTACK! is for you, also to introduce to your colleagues. Each issue will be restricted to two pages. A cover graphic for a file or … Continue reading
Disturbing CoL developments
CoLs have been introduced using a copycat of the process used for Tomorrow’s Schools: the idealistic conceptual cover to appeal to typically kind-hearted, classroom teachers – for Tomorrow’s Schools, freedom – for Cols, collaboration; a tumultuous drumbeat of propaganda; organisational … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy, Schooling
Tagged Community of Learning, Education policy, Hattie, National standards, Neoliberalism, NZEI, NZPF, principals, Schooling
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