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Unbeaching the Whale

Author : Ashenden Dean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646890210
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Unbeaching the Whale written by Ashenden Dean and published by . This book was released on 2024-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools are livelier and more humane places than they were a generation or two ago. But many things are going badly in the basics of school life - in 'behaviour', 'discipline', 'school refusal', 'bullying', 'engagement', 'mental health', 'wellbeing' - as well as in learning. Too many start behind and stay behind, then leave early, unhappy and ill-equipped. The standing and morale of teachers are at a low ebb. Repeated attempts at reform large and small, local and national, haven't worked; the 'education revolution' of the Rudd/Gillard years failed. And yet thinking and policy continue to be dominated by its language of 'performance' and 'accountability', its tests, MySchool, 'national approach', 'school reform agreements' and its stunted view of what schools can be. Unbeaching the Whale offers a more generous way of thinking about schools. It insists that they can and should deliver 12 safe, happy and worthwhile years, for everyone. It argues compellingly for a different kind of reform - of governance, of the 'sector' system, and above all of the daily work of students and teachers. Pungent, sober, inspiring, urgent, Unbeaching the Whale is that rare thing, a book about schooling that is lucid, jargon-free, challenging and gripping.

Unbeaching the Whale: Can Australia’s Schooling Be Reformed?

Author : Dean Ashenden
Publisher : Inside Story
ISBN 13 : 0646892908
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Unbeaching the Whale: Can Australia’s Schooling Be Reformed? written by Dean Ashenden and published by Inside Story. This book was released on 2024-03-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools are livelier and more humane places than they were a generation or two ago. But many things are going badly in the basics of school life — in behaviour, discipline, school refusal, bullying, engagement, mental health, wellbeing — as well as in learning. Too many start behind, stay behind, and then leave early, unhappy and ill-equipped. The standing and morale of teachers are at a low ebb. Repeated attempts at reform large and small, local and national, haven’t worked. The “education revolution” of the Rudd–Gillard years failed. And yet thinking and policy continue to be dominated by its language of “performance” and “accountability,” its tests, MySchool, “national approach” and “school reform agreements” and its stunted view of what schools can be. Unbeaching the Whale offers a more generous way of thinking about schools. It insists that they can and should deliver twelve safe, happy and worthwhile years for everyone. It argues compellingly for a different kind of reform — of governance, of the sector system, and above all of the daily work of students and teachers. Pungent, sober, inspiring, urgent, Unbeaching the Whale is that rare thing, a book about schooling that is lucid, jargon-free, challenging and gripping. Dean Ashenden has worked in and around schools as a teacher, academic and consultant, and in journalism. He has contributed to all major print outlets and to many professional, academic and social affairs journals. His previous book, Telling Tennant’s Story, was inaugural winner of the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. He is a Senior Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Making the Difference

Author : Dean Ashenden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000247058
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Making the Difference written by Dean Ashenden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982, Making the Difference has become a classic in the study of education and of Australian society. Hailed on publication as 'certainly the most interesting book written about Australian schools in a very long time [and] arguably the most important', it has since been recognised as one of the 10 most influential works of Australian sociology, 'not just a major argument, and a 'classic' point of reference, [but] an event, an intervention in ways of doing research and speaking to practice, a methodology, a textual style. it was designed to be read by a much wider audience than the standard sociological text, and it has succeeded'. Making the Difference draws on a detailed study of the schools and homes of the powerful and the wealthy, and of ordinary wage-earners. It allows children, parents and teachers to speak for themselves and from what they say it develops strikingly new ways of understanding 'educational inequality', of how the class and gender systems work, and of schools and their social roles. 'Equality of opportunity', co-education, and 'relevant and meaningful curriculum' are all questioned, sympathetically but incisively. Ranging across educational policy from system level to the everyday experience of kids and teachers, from the problems of schooling to the production of class and gender relations, this path-breaking combination of theory, research and politics remains engaging, thought-provoking, and relevant.

The Stupid Country

Author : Chris Bonnor
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868408064
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Stupid Country written by Chris Bonnor and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warns of a future where the hardest schools for Australian parents to get their kids into will be public ones. With insight, passion and a sense of urgency, this book shows how government, anxious parents, the church and ideology are combining to undermine public schools.

Indigenous Languages in Education

Author : Charles E. Grimes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780868925981
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Languages in Education written by Charles E. Grimes and published by . This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliography of Australian and international research into the value of bilingual and multilingual education

Teachers' Work

Author : Raewyn Connell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780868617602
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Teachers' Work written by Raewyn Connell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1985 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers' Work is a highly readable and often amusing account of the reality of teachers' working lives that will give teachers themselves cause for reflection, give students a picture of the real world of teaching, and allow parents an insight into how things look from the other side of the school wall.

Weapons of Mass Instruction

Author : John Taylor Gatto
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1550924249
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Weapons of Mass Instruction written by John Taylor Gatto and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of schooling from a twelve-year jail sentence to freedom to learn. John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction , now available in paperback, focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down , introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling. Gatto demonstrates that the harm school inflicts is rational and deliberate. The real function of pedagogy, he argues, is to render the common population manageable. To that end, young people must be conditioned to rely upon experts, to remain divided from natural alliances and to accept disconnections from their own lived experiences. They must at all costs be discouraged from developing self-reliance and independence. Escaping this trap requires a strategy Gatto calls "open source learning" which imposes no artificial divisions between learning and life. Through this alternative approach our children can avoid being indoctrinated-only then can they achieve self-knowledge, good judgment, and courage.

Operation X

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789353570194
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Operation X written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: