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Education lives beyond the bounds of black and white

"Learning is a complex process, and binary, either-or strategies will not get the results children deserve.'

Professor O’Connor’s commentary on education in New Zealand prompts us to consider the similarities and synergies in the Australian context. He explores the limitations created when the accumulation of item knowledge is pitted against creative, complex, and critical learning experiences. He argues that educational binaries of any kind are rarely inclusive of all learners, that they position certain knowledges as superior to others, and that they are a misrepresentation of the ways knowledge is really used. His article argues for rich, complex, challenging, and multidisciplinary experiences for all learners, for agentic pedagogies that embrace the social and cultural capital of each learner (and teacher!), and the valuing of all disciplines by aligning rather than ranking them.\

Touchstones: 1, 4, 6, 10, 11

Reference: Peter O’Connor. (2024, August 13). Education lives beyond the bounds of black and white. Newsroom.

Education lives beyond the bounds of black and white

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Resource Added: 14 August, 2024

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