Posted in curriculum, politics on Jun 5th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’ve blogged occasionally (most notably HERE) and grumbled a lot here and there about the intrinsic value or not of a national curriculum; now an idea that’s firmly here and on the agenda of both sides of politics, as seen in this ABC news piece from back in January.
The other day I was asked to [...]
Posted in curriculum, media, teacher-bashing on Feb 4th, 2008 No Comments »
All the journalists, academics and politicians must be back from their holidays because the media is abuzz this week with all kinds of what should be done to ‘fix’ schools and teachers in the process.
The Federal Government’s rolling up its sleeves and unveiling its education revolution with, you guessed it, a national curriculum! Let’s [...]
Posted in conferences, curriculum, politics on Nov 19th, 2007 No Comments »
I must admit that, at times during the Curriculum Corporation Conference in Sydney I felt like a tiny voice of dissent in a chorus of support for national curriculum.
Not surprising perhaps, given the positioning of the Curriculum Corporation as an agent of federal government, but there was almost an inevitability about it all as speaker [...]
Posted in curriculum, leadership on Oct 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Well, it’s been a week back at work since the Conference and I’ve (nearly) cleared the email deluge and back-up of tasks to the extent that I can actually think about the sessions I saw and what might come of them. I’ll try to write about some of them over the next few days.
The first [...]
Posted in curriculum, learning, teaching on Oct 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
Late in October I presented at the annual Ithaka Conference. The Ithaka Project has been going for about five years and involves nine or so schools in teacher reflection and collaboration. The presentation was a dialogue between Deane Blackner, Julie Landvogt and myself on a number of key questions relating to the central concern: [...]
Posted in curriculum, politics on Oct 16th, 2007 No Comments »
One of the recurring themes through the New Imagery conference was where the voice of the teaching profession was in all the educational debates, and where we our own worst enemy by not being able to articulate together our good work.
The specific example one speaker gave was the A-E report grade directive from the Federal [...]
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