Anne Bieleski
Masters in Education
Massey University Distance
You can also find me at Homeschoolery
and now at Whakatu Kid’s Co-operative
“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)
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economics
Welfare state economy: where the state produces goods and services for all. Free market economy: (a myth) where you can freely buy and sell goods and services. Neo-liberalism: form of neoclassical economics where public goods are privatised and monetized, where public goods and services are minimised. The process we more from a welfare state to
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awakening
I grew up in a household that focused on the environment (deep ecology), social issues, and collectivism – hence my mother standing for the Values party. I remember some man calling my lovely mum a scab like he hated her when we were at a Springbok tour protest – we lived, at the time, in
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Freire
First thought about the quote was about the archaic language and how the quote can only be understood by people versed in academic language (maybe Brazilians have better vocab?) which is exclusive therefor oppressive. Totally agree. You have to be part of the system to destroy the system that prevents you being yourself in the
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narrative
2. I have been paying more attention, in listening out for narrative stories and when I hear them in my general life. So far: I have noticied a tendancy to tell such narrative stories when trying to make a connection with a stranger. Or eg, to reconnect with a friend: we went over similar stories
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one story
I love this TeD talk. I first watched after a friend told me her son (15) watched as part of English. I liked it. I was impressed that his teacher was showing them this. I played it to my family, my daughter was 9 (I think) and seriously into Enid Blyton (which when I read
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dominant naratives
There are different kinds of dominant narratives. Some are incidious and motivated. They are promoted to support the system (rather than any individual idea/goal) and many that speak such narratives probably don’t even think that is what they are doing any more than the public at large question them, eg – the virtue of having
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Identity notes
Notes from reading: Identity is used by different fields of study: social psychology, developmental psychology, philosophy of language, but not yet a consensus… Difference between self and identity – self control, self-esteem, less related to identity but evaluation of self. Identity composed of biological, psychological, socio-demographic positions. Are these overlapping or distinct? Self defined “I
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thoughts on the interview
(With Prof D McAdams) Main points I suspect that Kim Hill would have been a better interviewer and asked more stringent questions.
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Anne
Involment in Education: I have always been interested in education, particularly in the kind of education that makes our lives more fulfilling.
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