There is a reason it is illegal to not answer the census, because unless everyone answers, the data is not an accurate representation of New Zealand (Stats New Zealand, 2013). Colmar Brunton get paid megabucks by the government to monitor the ‘mood’ of New Zealanders. They undertake market and social research for companies and the …
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The idea that learning and environment are linked is an idea that has been around for a long time. However, my third practicum school is throwing this idea out the window and is bringing in integrated, innovative, future focused curriculum without the “innovative learning space”. They are integrating their juniors (year 9 and 10) in …
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I distinctly remember being in year 12 and being told as a class our physics internal was going to be scaled up because too many of us had passed. The explanation that was provided to us was that in every assessment some of us had to fail because otherwise the assessment was considered too easy. …
Despite the decile system and the hope of education parity, low decile schools continue to underperform and struggle to produce students with the same opportunities as those from high decile schools. They have higher rates of students who have issues beyond the scope of education such as poverty (Wylie, 2013). Students in poverty often live …
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In education, we all know that we are walking into a profession of haves and have nots. If you step foot into a decile one school, you will immediately see the differences to a decile 10 school. However what is not so obvious is another group of students who are distributed across deciles. Students with …
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Pierre Bourdieu was a french philosopher who died in 2001. However, his life and work still influences much of what we do in regards to bicultural education today on the other side of the world. Pierre Bourdieu’s work was focused around the concept of capital. He looks at how possessing different forms of capital is …
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Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
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