Claire's recommendation to look very carefully at the drafts is worth taking seriously. These are drafts that are highly narrow in their selection of the knowledge they present as too important to be left to chance. Take a look at the psychology curriculum as a perfect example, which seems to be in-part acting to justify the curriculum's pedagogical approach. https://newzealandcurriculum.tahurangi.education.govt.nz/5637326829.p#FileDownloads
I had a quick scan Bevan and could see what you mean. It's as if the complexity sceinces never happened! (Or that there might be any intersect with the other social sciences). I am looking forward to reading Michael Pollan's new book "A world emerges" which explores new research and discoveries around consciousness. Wouldn't young people just be fascinated by that! What a missed oppportunity.
Schooling in New Zealand has become a weapon of mass destruction for our most vulnerable tauira. What has happened over the past two years manifests Althusser's proposition of school as an Ideological State Apparatus. The ruling class now more than ever are using education to maintain capitalist control by instilling dominant ideologies, teaching necessary labor skills, and normalizing social inequity. The lie of meritocracy will be used to defend their position, after all we have "equality of opportunity" don't we. Through socialization and persuasion school teaches children to accept their place in the societal hierarchy as "common sense". We have returned to a schooling system where practical skills like numeracy and literacy needed for the workforce are taught alongside the hidden curriculum. Obedience, discipline, and respect for the ruling order to create compliant workers. The system then evaluates students, sorting them into different roles. It engineers success for middle-class children while marginalizing working-class children, Māori, Pacific, neurodivergent making this inequality seem natural and deserved based on individual "merit". Billy Bragg summed it up in his song: To have and to Have Not. All they teach you at school is how to be a good worker. The system has failed you don't fail yourself. At a time when it is getting harder to engage students, taking the school system back 50 years will only lead to greater disengagement. Every high equity index school with a predominantly Māori and Pacific role needs to erect a giant billboard with Standford's face on it saying the new system will see more Māori and Pacific schools fail. In fact, every school that understands how wrong this is should put up similar billboards. Open defiance is how we save education. Diplomacy will not work with a government that ignores court rulings and changes laws to fit their agenda.
Excellent analysis thanks. I just watched Eric Stanford on Q & A. She was boastful and arrogant. She claimed "I've done more for Maori than any other Minister". Extraordinary.
This massive education reform sadens me so much, why do we have to become like other countries? As a NZ teacher, currently teaching overseas, schools have always appreciated the capacity kiwi teachers have for flexible, creative thinking when it comes to learning and teaching, so that students feel part of the learning. It is very apparent when a teacher has come from a more ridgid grades based system, such as the one being proposed. Therefore, this change will not only impact the creativity kiwi kids grow up learning, but it will also impact the way NZ teachers teach. With the advent of AI, creative/critical thinking is what is needed as a focus, not grades and standards. With a more ridgid system where this become the focus, there will be a uptick in students completing assignments using AI, cheating with AI, which will be hard for teachers to manage and will impact the intergrity of the qualification. Yes, I agree that NCEA may need a revist, but I do not agree that we try to implement a new system just because older people haven't taken the time to understand the current one. Yes, I am one of those older people, and yes I did go through an education system that was ridgid and grades based. I was told in 6th form that I should look in to being a waitress because my grades were not good enough and I wouldn't be successful. It was a nightmare and incredibly stressful for a learner that had trouble memorising facts immediately! I didn't do well with study until I could choose what I wanted to study, and go through a nore creative inquiry process. As Claire said, this change will impact so many learners in a negative way, as well as our reputation. The hope is that this change will pause and the right people come to the table to discuss what the actual long-term implications of this will be.
The NANZ1's are changing the NZQF so that it will be so much easier to fund private digital providers and by pass physical schools, buildings and teachers! It's already happening.
I went to talk to Hn East MP about ECE ata 'meet your MP' coffee ahop. A colleague went the followingweek. We both agree Ryan Hamilton knows nothing about education
my comment has some obvious typos. But they are not mine - outside interference. The privatisers don't like what I am writing. At least my comment wasn't silenced-- seemingly stamped on my text with the name "Allen"- with a warning that 'without evidence' my 'opinions are worthlless. Allen who?
The project sounds similar to what the privatised universities' teaching of art and arts & humanities became very quickly after 1989 -- at a le4vel below that of most British universities and waynbelow that of most European countries -- in philosophy psychology history literature Fine arts music dance theatre film digital graphics. Why? because those subjects in teaching overlapped with the big and small issues of internatuional politics.It was. the end of art history and theory -- for that very reason. The only way to get what the schools have now will be in private education -- whichnwill not be possible for the variously disadvantaged who will be seriously damaged by the new system: Māori, Pacific Communities, & physically and psychologically disadvantaged students. However, Bookman the bright side, some Asian immigrant students will probably feel at home.
These are deliberate changes from a more equitable Qualifications system to one that will favour the elite. Probably no surprises - it's the modus operandi of this Govt. NCEA is part of the NZQF - no mention how this new qualification fits.
Thank you, Claire, for explicitly using the term "opportunity cost". I learnt about op. cost in my first week of "5th form" economics back in the 80's. In the noughties my husband's very first MBA class discussed the same. And yet today we seldom hear what's being sacrificed in order to introduce this or that policy. Thanks also for highlighting that the NCEA could simply have been improved, not replaced. However, this Govt consistently throws the baby out with the bathwater: RMA reforms completely redone, Te Pukenga thrown on the rubbish heap, Govt departments renamed to reverse their use of te Reo, the debacle of the new ferry about-face. All that time, energy, and expense discarded as if their investment were worthless. This Govt touts its values of fiscal responsibility; and yet I consider their practices demonstrate the exact opposite.
Claire's recommendation to look very carefully at the drafts is worth taking seriously. These are drafts that are highly narrow in their selection of the knowledge they present as too important to be left to chance. Take a look at the psychology curriculum as a perfect example, which seems to be in-part acting to justify the curriculum's pedagogical approach. https://newzealandcurriculum.tahurangi.education.govt.nz/5637326829.p#FileDownloads
https://substack.com/@bevanholloway/note/c-260691007?r=5ts3js&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Yes, it completely ignores the richness in the field, and in doing so does students a great disservice. Did you see Guy Claxton has condemned it?
I had a quick scan Bevan and could see what you mean. It's as if the complexity sceinces never happened! (Or that there might be any intersect with the other social sciences). I am looking forward to reading Michael Pollan's new book "A world emerges" which explores new research and discoveries around consciousness. Wouldn't young people just be fascinated by that! What a missed oppportunity.
sorry about the typo - slip of the finger. Sciences
Schooling in New Zealand has become a weapon of mass destruction for our most vulnerable tauira. What has happened over the past two years manifests Althusser's proposition of school as an Ideological State Apparatus. The ruling class now more than ever are using education to maintain capitalist control by instilling dominant ideologies, teaching necessary labor skills, and normalizing social inequity. The lie of meritocracy will be used to defend their position, after all we have "equality of opportunity" don't we. Through socialization and persuasion school teaches children to accept their place in the societal hierarchy as "common sense". We have returned to a schooling system where practical skills like numeracy and literacy needed for the workforce are taught alongside the hidden curriculum. Obedience, discipline, and respect for the ruling order to create compliant workers. The system then evaluates students, sorting them into different roles. It engineers success for middle-class children while marginalizing working-class children, Māori, Pacific, neurodivergent making this inequality seem natural and deserved based on individual "merit". Billy Bragg summed it up in his song: To have and to Have Not. All they teach you at school is how to be a good worker. The system has failed you don't fail yourself. At a time when it is getting harder to engage students, taking the school system back 50 years will only lead to greater disengagement. Every high equity index school with a predominantly Māori and Pacific role needs to erect a giant billboard with Standford's face on it saying the new system will see more Māori and Pacific schools fail. In fact, every school that understands how wrong this is should put up similar billboards. Open defiance is how we save education. Diplomacy will not work with a government that ignores court rulings and changes laws to fit their agenda.
Excellent analysis thanks. I just watched Eric Stanford on Q & A. She was boastful and arrogant. She claimed "I've done more for Maori than any other Minister". Extraordinary.
Kāore te kumara e kōrero ana mo tōna ake reka
Excellent explanation Claire. These changes are so rushed and damaging!
School Certificate and University Entrance rise from the grave.
This massive education reform sadens me so much, why do we have to become like other countries? As a NZ teacher, currently teaching overseas, schools have always appreciated the capacity kiwi teachers have for flexible, creative thinking when it comes to learning and teaching, so that students feel part of the learning. It is very apparent when a teacher has come from a more ridgid grades based system, such as the one being proposed. Therefore, this change will not only impact the creativity kiwi kids grow up learning, but it will also impact the way NZ teachers teach. With the advent of AI, creative/critical thinking is what is needed as a focus, not grades and standards. With a more ridgid system where this become the focus, there will be a uptick in students completing assignments using AI, cheating with AI, which will be hard for teachers to manage and will impact the intergrity of the qualification. Yes, I agree that NCEA may need a revist, but I do not agree that we try to implement a new system just because older people haven't taken the time to understand the current one. Yes, I am one of those older people, and yes I did go through an education system that was ridgid and grades based. I was told in 6th form that I should look in to being a waitress because my grades were not good enough and I wouldn't be successful. It was a nightmare and incredibly stressful for a learner that had trouble memorising facts immediately! I didn't do well with study until I could choose what I wanted to study, and go through a nore creative inquiry process. As Claire said, this change will impact so many learners in a negative way, as well as our reputation. The hope is that this change will pause and the right people come to the table to discuss what the actual long-term implications of this will be.
I wish this could be more widely spread somehow.
I have posted this on Facebook. I hope all parents read. I despise the language ; it's as if kids who don't fit into their boxes are all failures.
The NANZ1's are changing the NZQF so that it will be so much easier to fund private digital providers and by pass physical schools, buildings and teachers! It's already happening.
I went to talk to Hn East MP about ECE ata 'meet your MP' coffee ahop. A colleague went the followingweek. We both agree Ryan Hamilton knows nothing about education
my comment has some obvious typos. But they are not mine - outside interference. The privatisers don't like what I am writing. At least my comment wasn't silenced-- seemingly stamped on my text with the name "Allen"- with a warning that 'without evidence' my 'opinions are worthlless. Allen who?
The project sounds similar to what the privatised universities' teaching of art and arts & humanities became very quickly after 1989 -- at a le4vel below that of most British universities and waynbelow that of most European countries -- in philosophy psychology history literature Fine arts music dance theatre film digital graphics. Why? because those subjects in teaching overlapped with the big and small issues of internatuional politics.It was. the end of art history and theory -- for that very reason. The only way to get what the schools have now will be in private education -- whichnwill not be possible for the variously disadvantaged who will be seriously damaged by the new system: Māori, Pacific Communities, & physically and psychologically disadvantaged students. However, Bookman the bright side, some Asian immigrant students will probably feel at home.
These are deliberate changes from a more equitable Qualifications system to one that will favour the elite. Probably no surprises - it's the modus operandi of this Govt. NCEA is part of the NZQF - no mention how this new qualification fits.
Thank you, Claire, for explicitly using the term "opportunity cost". I learnt about op. cost in my first week of "5th form" economics back in the 80's. In the noughties my husband's very first MBA class discussed the same. And yet today we seldom hear what's being sacrificed in order to introduce this or that policy. Thanks also for highlighting that the NCEA could simply have been improved, not replaced. However, this Govt consistently throws the baby out with the bathwater: RMA reforms completely redone, Te Pukenga thrown on the rubbish heap, Govt departments renamed to reverse their use of te Reo, the debacle of the new ferry about-face. All that time, energy, and expense discarded as if their investment were worthless. This Govt touts its values of fiscal responsibility; and yet I consider their practices demonstrate the exact opposite.