NZ Schools and schooling in the 21st century
P3
"... schools must become learner centred, not timetable or teacher or class centred, but centred on each individual's learning needs, talents and aspirations for th future....shifting traditional concepts of ownership and dependency away form the system, the school and teachers to the learner." "Our Secondary Schools Don't work anymore.
p9
The problem is that our education system was not designed for learning, nor was it designed for inclusiveness or "universal participation." It was designed for the industrial economy, the industrial age, not the information or knowledge economy. It was designed with upraises in mind that can no longer be justified.
P13
As adults we know that children in their formative years ar spontaneous learners, intensely curious abut their world and creative i they play. Such positive traits were not encouraged i the schooling system. Nor was the a place for children who mastered material at different rates or who might learn martial mor easily if it were presented i a non-linear fashion.
