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15 Feb : Listen to Derek Fox's provocative take on Professor Russell Bishop's analysis of school leavers which showed that 53% of Maori boys left school in 2005 without any educational qualification. Derek Fox's opinion is that the failure is not on the part of Maori kids but lays it clearly at the feet of the education system which has been funded with milllions of dollars over the years to teach kids properly. He states that teachers are fail to engage their Maori students and thought the Minister should resign since they were clearly failing to properly use the millions of dollars in Vote Education.
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About Me
- Pam Rigg
- Wanganui, New Zealand
- Personal motto: no-one is free until we all are free. HOMETRUTH: The quest for a peaceful sustainable society begins at home. It begins with us. It begins in our hearts and minds before it can inform our actions. It begins with our cultivating our connectedness, compassion and sense of mutual responsibility, and teaching our children about these. When we habitually think of social justice as a matter of personal responsibility for one another, then we create the conditions for our young people to feel a sense of belonging and a desire to participate responsibly in social life. As teachers we need to be constantly learning, not only because there is always so much new research to engage with, but also for that precious understanding of the fragile subjectivity of the learner that enables the committed teacher to nurture the nascent spirited imagination of an emergent young adult. I HAVE A DREAM ..... TO FILL THEM WITH A LOVE OF LEARNING, A FEEL FOR THEIR POSSIBILITIES, RAMPANT CURIOSITY, TOOLS TO FIND, DISCRIMINATE, AND CRITICALLY EVALUATE INFORMATION, FINDING THE CONFIDENCE TO DISCOVER THEIR VOICES, THEIR IDENTITIES- AS INDIVIDUALS, AND AS CITIZENS.
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