I think you are mistaken. Labeen wasn't by any stretch 'liberal' - just look at their authoritarian approach to the following key issues: - supporting the terrible Albert Park protest, complete with punching out a 70 year old woman, then the next day ...
Sounds awesome!
Reading and listening to comments about the election, it really feels like we're in Brexit-land. PMC/upper class identitarians are either saying 'couldn't see that one coming' or blaming it on Covid, while working class have a totally different take that ...
Wow Belladonna, that exactly mirrors our experiences with both kids. I have seen this problem widespread across the primary/secondary education sector in multiple schools. I think part of it comes from the teachers training courses, and part from the MoE. ...
What's being lost here, apart from Belladonna, is that the current approach to teaching literacy (and mathematics and science) is: 1. delivering ever declining standards (this is an objective fact) 2 the MoE appears incapable of recognising there is an ...
“The conceptual bridge between physics & metaphysics is built out of seeing numbers as archetypes within nature: pattern-generating, influential. Quanta + qualia is holistic mental process.” What on earth does that mean? This sounds like it’s rapidly ...
From what I can tell he doesn't even really know who they are. He has an extensive science network and most of his contacts are people like myself who correspond with him on the state of science in NZ, because we love science and love NZ, and want to see ...
I guess you could classify it as neo-liberal because it was a shift to 'parents rights' (not too bad), deconstructing the states role in education, radically changing curriculum, individualism in focus, and much more self management of schools e.g. board ...
This was replicated recently with similar results in the Grievance Studies affair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair Essentially the same result - journals publishing any old rubbish that conforms to woke social justice and gender ...
But they won't because they operate from a broken educational philosophy that downplays detail, rigor, facts and knowledge.
This was an artefact of the Tomorrows Schools reforms in the 80's. Before then we had a proscriptive curriculum, and post then each revision has been more and more vague and principles driven. From my readings and travels, this is uncommon. Overseas, ...
Thanks Anker, Shanreagh and tsmithfield for your feedback. I've read extensively about the new curriculum in all subject areas, and I'm still astonished that the only group really concerned about student performance is the New Zealand Initiative - a group ...
I find this issue immensely frustrating so here's a bit of a rant (apologies in advance). NZ student attainment in science, maths and literacy has for the past 20 years been declining, and the Ministry of Education (MoE) seems hell-bent on ignoring this. ...
Agree 100%. I'm a lifelong green / Labour voter, but not this year. The hate and violence they showed women at the Stand Up for Women event in Albert park this year was the last straw for me.
Ok then. It's all through the enabling legislation, starting at Part 1 section 3 2 d):: https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2022/0077/latest/LMS534591.html?search=sw_096be8ed81cf7714_te+mana_25_se&p=1&sr=2 " requiring them to give effect to the ...
In all this resert/rebranding talk, I’m not seeing much if any discussion of Te Mana o Te Wai (TMOTW) statements that are still in the proposed model. TMOTW allow Iwi to issue a statement like “in region X you will employ only our tribe” or “you will not ...
I do think one thing we need to consider is that teaching can only do so much, the wider social and family context is super important: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/education-commentary-is-dominated Several of my whanau are teachers and their rule ...
100% tsmithfield. I can speak from having kids go through primary to intermediate and secondary in the past 6 years. How reading was taught ('guess the context') made my kids exceptionally poor readers, and this led them to feel a failure and not try. Our ...
Which studies? I have whanau that have never even heard of Matauranga Maori, so I'd be interested to see if this has really been studied or not. I read (can't find the link, will keep looking) that this is actually a class based issue i.e. lower SES kids ...
From his linkedIn post linked elsewhere: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6972283670992732160/ "TAKARANGI Science catching up with Māori knowledge. The NASA images from the James Webb Telescope of a galaxy being formed are simply ...
sure, got it.
There was a very long, multi-cultural oral history of the efficacy of willow bark for various ailments, mostly pain and fever. Researchers hypothesised there was a chemical in willow bark that had medicinal properties, so used organic chemistry disciplines...
This is what we were taught in Chemistry. How about you do a 1 minute search instead of a snarky post... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aspirin "In the 19th century, as the young discipline of organic chemistry began to grow in Europe, scientists...
I am well aware of the role of this in science, I have a science degree and come from a family of scientists so [deleted] for your put down. I watched my father do trial and error experimentation within the full set of scientific processes, and have done ...
yes it did and it's magical thinking, nothing replicates so not science.
Straw man argument again. I have never seem science say that because it's not written down it's not science, quite the opposite in fact. Look at medical science - they often try to investigate efficacy of plants etc indicated from oral histories. Hell, ...
What really angers me in this whole debate is that everyone seems to lose track of what's best for kids. Confusing them by adding religion into chemistry through Mauri is not going to improve learning outcomes, and we know they are getting worse over time ...
This is how the MoE rolls. Look at their 'evidence based approach' to open plan classrooms and whole-context-reading. Hint, there's no evidence in either. In the former case, the whole business community has been moving away from open plan offices for over...
What? Do you actually understand what the scientific method is? How on earth can you call this comment lazy? What is lazy is not bothering researching the epistemology of science and understanding that it has a rich history of methodological innovation and...
If you ever watched "The Story of English" they recounted how in ancient England story tellers were highly prized because they moved town to town recounting ancient tales. Science has long given weight to this sort of knowledge transfer e.g. psychology, ...
Trial and error is not science.
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