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Monthly Archives: May 2017
Attack! 111 Marvels amongst the kauri 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
Attack! 110 Marvels amongst the kauri Part 1
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! 109 Dear Ms Kaye from the NZEI executive (highly confidential)
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
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Tagged Curriculum, Education, Education policy, Politics, Schooling
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Attack! 108 Trump subjects Kiwi education radicals to an executive order
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! 107 In which Pooh looks for a 21st Century Education Part 1
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
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Tagged children, Curriculum, Education, Education policy, Schooling
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The government dismantling of public education: and reflections on resistance
[Dedicated to Ivan Snook, my mentor, friend, and inspiration.] This posting explores public education being in serious difficulty – largely because the government is intent on dismantling it. But was where we are inevitable? And a personal philosophy of resistance … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy
Tagged Clusters, Education policy, ERO, Hekia, Media, Ministry of Education, National standards, Neoliberalism
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Marvels amongst the kauri Part 2
The students stood around talking to each other quite at ease. Though they knew much was to be asked of them, they were relaxed, clearly looking forward to what was to come. Unexpected challenges would be posed, for instance, what … Continue reading
Marvels amongst the kauri Part 1
I am venturing once again to visit my friend Chris Horne at Glen Eden Intermediate, in appropriately-named Kaurilands, just off Titirangi Road, for further drama inspiration. In my last visit the result was Attacks! 100-103 Magic amongst the kauri based … Continue reading
Posted in Curriculum
Tagged Curriculum, Developmental, Drama, Education, Schooling, Teachers
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Dear Ms Kaye from the NZEI executive (highly confidential)
Dear Ms Kaye from the NZEI executive (highly confidential) NZEI executive Highly confidential Dear Ms Kaye We’re still very excited about your appointment and looking forward to being modernised. We’re quite shivery in anticipation about that one but, in respect … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy, National standards
Tagged National standards, Politics, Schooling
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Terrific media releases: one from a teacher organisation, another from a political party
We have now had 26 years of Tomorrow’s Schools and in all that time, leaving aside national standards, no political party or teacher organisation has advocated a fundamental structural change; that is, one with implications for the philosophy of that … Continue reading
Posted in Education Policy, Political, Principals
Tagged Curriculum, Education, Education policy, Hattie, Politics, principals, Schooling, Tomorrow's Schools
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