Anne Bieleski

Masters in Education

Massey University Distance

You can also find me at Homeschoolery

and now at Whakatu Kid’s Co-operative

Children playing outside

“For what I myself learned during these years I have mainly my children to thank. They were my teachers as I was theirs, and the basis of our relationship was sincerity, without which, I am convinced, there can be no creative education.”

Elwyn Richardson

In the early world. (best book on education)

  • note on Interpellation

    Is this the name for the reason I hate “we are learning to..” or WALT. I think it tells a child that whatever they get out of any activity isn’t as important as what the teacher wants them to get out of an activity… I don’t want a child to think that. With the example

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  • about teaching and learning

    I was doing two courses concurrently with my Masters. One is this Transforming Education, the other on conducting research. Given that I am only doing Masters to do some necessary research, I have to do the research paper. I have found it necessary to withdraw from the research paper this semester as the cognative dissonance was

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  • Dear Helena,

    You are on the verge of woman-hood at a time when the world feels like it is at a cross-roads. I hate that the news shows you the face of racism, genocide, and the climate crisis. I cried inside when you cried over what the Fast Track Bill means for te taiao. It is hard.

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  • this is not my assignment

    I have written my assignment several times, and I always degenerate into a rant and a list of questions. So I am writing this so I can feel that it is written and I can focus on answering the brief! Please excuse the bad writing, I write to sound like myself, and I prefer Oratory

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  • now I get it

    Oh how, I have ranted over learning objectives with all my rebelious “I will learn what I want streak” and now here I am writing an assignment which has all the hallmarks of what I think forces good learning and I am lost, afloat… I hate that I would write to a detailed rubric just

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  • Tweaking

    I have read a lot of words over the past few days, honorable, hopeful words. Te Hurihanganui, Tirewa Mātāmua are excellent, but how can we implement them in our current school model and society? Our schools need to change more, much bigger changes – eg: why do we persist with age grouping, eg year 5s

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  • thoughts

    I have been listening to the RNZ podcast with my child. Even if she was not homeschooled, I feel it is my duty as a citizen to ensure she learns the history of the country she is part of. Just like we will be watching the RNZ Citizenship programme. In the video of the hahana kids

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  • module two

    I am so loving this, (Matike Mai, and that awsome speech) I am having excited, hopeful thoughts. I tried Maori and the state but the language goes over my head! Some of my ancestors left Scotland (from the border where the relationship between the Scotts and the English was fraught) to escape their colonisation, others

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  • what’s your story morning glory..

    Such fun! Where to start? Both my parents were in education, and both did further education when I was a child. We were a eat dinner together, listen to National radio kind of family. I think I can say that my Dad is a nerd and an alternative thinker, totally rational. My Mum was “smart”

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  • Conscientization

    What barriers? Who defines success, historical trauma, current trauma, content, relevance, teachers, overt and covert racism, classism,  support academic, cultural and physical, denial by adults, adult interference. Why do you think they exist? Over heard in a staffroom, with parents present: Principal saying “if you want to learn Maori, you should do it in your

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