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by Kelvin Smythe
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Tag Archives: Education
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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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
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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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
My four changes to fix a broken primary school education system: you will only guess one of them
The primary school education system is broken – if change isn’t fundamental, it will be yet another betrayal of teachers and children. At the top we have Chris Hipkins. I have stopped issuing dire warnings about him because I recognise … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Curriculum, Education, Education policy, ERO, Neoliberalism, Politics, Schooling, Teachers
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Hattie’s research is false: Vice-Chancellors asked to investigate Part 2
The falseness of Hattie’s research is not difficult to explain; only a few aspects are complex. But everything about Hattie’s research is false except for some opinions which, while they may be true, are also false, because he claims them … Continue reading
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Tagged Academics, Education, Education policy, ERO, Hattie, National standards, Politics, Schooling
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We’ve turned the classroom into a spaceship Part 2
It was interesting to listen and watch the reactions of the group members when choices had to be made from their own submissions. By trial, error, and much discussion we established a lay-out for the spaceship. This stage of the … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum
Tagged children, Curriculum, Developmental, Education, Schooling, Science, Teachers
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We’ve turned the classroom into a spaceship Part 1
It was late 1989, and this was one of my last undertakings before I resigned from the prospect of Tomorrow’s Schools to argue for something very different, an alternative symbolised by what follows. We’ve turned the classroom into a spaceship. … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Curriculum, Developmental, Education, Schooling, Teachers
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