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Tag Archives: educational reform

Epistemology needs to matter: A call to arms

August 11, 2018by Michelle Leave a comment

“At a time when political rhetoric is riven with irrationality, when knowledge is…seen…as an encumbrance that can be pushed aside if it stands in the way of wishful thinking, and […]

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NAPLAN persuasive writing test subverts critical thinking

May 2, 2018by Michelle 1 Comment

The capacity to persuade is a vital currency: it fosters active civic participation and affords access to power in a democracy. Developing persuasiveness therefore has an important place in education. […]

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We lit a fire…

April 14, 2015by Michelle Leave a comment

We’re overjoyed that a culture of ‘thinking about thinking’ has taken root at Heatherhill Primary School as a direct result of our Big Questions philosophy program. We’d expected that our […]

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On Questioning and Silence: Subversive Activity (Part 2)

April 28, 2013by Michelle 2 Comments

Some of the educational reforms considered radical in the late ‘60s have come to be accepted – even institutionalised – in our current school system (as we saw in Part […]

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Teaching as a Subversive Activity Redux (Part 1)

April 27, 2013by Michelle 2 Comments

I’ve been reading Teaching as a Subversive Activity, Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner’s 1969 manifesto calling for a revolution in education. Over the past half-century, many of its radical proposals […]

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