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by Kelvin Smythe
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Author Archives: Kelvin Smythe
In which Pooh looks for a 21st Century Education Part 1
From Kelvin’s Attack series that he completed just before he died. In which Pooh looks for a 21st Century Education Part 1 One day, when Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet were all talking together, Christopher Robin finished the mouthful … Continue reading
Posted in Attack, Education Policy
Tagged children, Curriculum, Education, Education policy, Schooling, Teachers
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Sadly….
Kelvin Smythe lost his battle against prostate cancer yesterday morning (Saturday 13th October NZ time). Funeral details yet to be decided. Kelvin fought against neoliberalism in New Zealand primary school education, right from the outset of the euphemistic ‘tomorrow’s schools’ … Continue reading
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Mindset is encompassed by the holistic and should be seen as commonsense given space: I give it a strong tick
The following by Kelvin Smythe: This posting supports mindset as expressed by the American academics Jo Boaler and Carol Dweck. I perceive mindset as a strategy to encourage holistic ideas into mathematics, in particular, a curriculum much in need of … Continue reading
Not ‘Getting it’ – and ‘Getting it’
When Tomorrow’s Schools was introduced, I immediately recognised we would be incapable of thinking ourselves out of the education failure we had allowed ourselves to be thought into (led by Treasury and a mesmerised David Lange) and predicted the next … Continue reading
Labour’s education dunce strikes again
When is Jacinda going to save children and teachers a lot of hurt and Labour a lot of embarrassment and take education away from its current resident education dunce? The situation ‘Morning Report’, the interviewer Guyon, the topic charter schools … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Chris Hipkins, Education, Education policy, Politics, Schooling
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Tomorrow’s Schools’ wheel-a-go-round
The lack of attention to: Leadership: you can have good leadership (no recent example in education comes to mind) and bad leadership (Hekia Parata) and no leadership (Chris Hipkins) – which constitutes an abdication to bad leadership The way the … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Chris Hipkins, Education policy, Politics, Schooling, Tomorrow's Schools
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Treachery! Part 1: The Hipkins’ swift one and the satire
In what follows, I spell out briefly an astonishingly duplicitous U turn by Chris Hipkins that has horrid implications for education. These implications are examined in a further Attack! but I needed to get the message out quickly to encourage … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Chris Hipkins, Curriculum, Education, Education policy, Ministry of Education, National standards, Politics, Schooling
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There is another in the arrangement, so it is a bit crowded
Does the panel for Tomorrow’s Schools remain our only hope? In the absence of providing his own sense of principled direction Chris Hipkins is acting through a disparate assembly of adult organisational educational needs and ideologies. Unable to see straight … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Education, Education policy, NCEA, Neoliberalism, Politics, principals, Schooling
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I am asking you to stand by me on this one: The File
Dear reader The File, my final publication, is now available for purchase. It is a publication that, with care, can provide a lift to the primary education system and a surer sense of direction. Not because of what I have … Continue reading
Chris Hipkins is Peter Fraser to our time, Iona Holsted and Katrina Casey are our Clarence Beeby (can you hear the gods laughing?)
This posting starts off in one direction, only to head in, perhaps lurch to might be more accurate, another. But it is held together (hopefully) by my judgement that Chris Hipkins lacks depth of feeling veering to milksop, and my … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Chris Hipkins, Education policy, Ministry of Education, Politics, principals, Social Studies
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