Array# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-04-30T07:47:00+0000

Here are my thoughts on the draft English curriculum, with a focus on Years 9 to 13. In short, I think it is an impoverished document, despite its claims to represent a knowledge-rich approach to education, that instead reflects a highly ideological position regarding the purpose of an education system. In order to make real […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-04-27T02:04:02+0000

AI threatens to radically transform education in ways that rob learners of connecting with all the things that create beauty in life.# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-04-24T07:07:01+0000

Something significant has changed since early 2024 in relation to the curriculum and its legislative basis. This is a problem for schools, and it is a danger for our democracy.# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-04-23T02:21:09+0000

Papers provided to the Ministers from January to October 2024 about the Ka ora | Ka aka programme.# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-04-22T06:38:47+0000

Learning stories can be time consuming, especially when you teach a large number of students. Here's a twist that might lift that burden.# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-04-21T00:53:45+0000

Here are some things I’ve come across lately that have stuck with me. Children Are the Future: Authoritarianism, Culture War, and Making Model Citizens This does a really good job of mapping the connection between what’s happening in education and the broader social and cultural activism of the right. controlling what they are taught about […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-04-17T02:47:49+0000

What is Imagination? In the dispositions cards, we say that mental playfulness is the key to imagination. It is the inclination and ability to play with ideas in your head, which helps you formulate and explore new ideas in the test-bed of your own mind. It is important to know what to look for with […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-04-09T22:17:57+0000

Doing I’m currently working on a part 2 to my initial report into the NZ curriculum changes. At this stage I am in the ‘drawing things together’ phase. What the latest OIA docs make clear is the MAG came in with a plan, and reviewing the refresh work done to date was not a big […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-04-09T04:30:03+0000

In amongst all the prescriptiveness of our new ‘knowledge-rich’ curriculum, the Minister is still asserting that dispositions are important. What’s missing in the curriculum is HOW teachers might go about eliciting them. Here is something that might help. In 2023, Guy Claxton, Becky Carlzon and I did work to help teachers with the very question […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-04-05T23:18:23+0000

NZAS has sent made submissions to the final phase of the Science System Advisory Group. In addition its full detailed four page submission (available on our Submissions page), the NZAS Co-Presidents have provided a brief submission outlining their view of what successful reform science system reform should look like.   The overview is reproduced here: Thank you for seeking this second round of input on the future of our research and science system. We broadly agree with and support the first Science System Advisory Group report and look forward to your final report and hope that it will have the desired impact. The nature and length of the Phase 2 submissions has led us to submit a b

GFANZ President Rob Elshire gave an oral submission to the Health Select Committee on the Gene Technology Bill.  The writing for this was a team effort by the GFANZ Council. Our position: GFANZ does not support this bill in its current state. We do, however, support a broad te Tiriti led process through which a... The post Gene Technology Bill – Oral Submission to Health Select Committee appeared first on Genomics for Aotearoa New Zealand. # Content-Attribution # Source: genomics.nz Content Creator: Rob Elshire Date: 2025-03-21T02:39:28+0000