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- 21st Century Schooling
We are at a moment in history when we must profoundly question the nature and relevance of schooling in a contemporary world and ask ourselves whether the current model of schooling, which is deeply rooted in an industrial paradigm, is going to serve our students and our society? It would appear that our current model of schooling isn’t making the grade. We must jettison out-dated ideologies of schooling if we are going to deliver a world-class education for every student that doesn’t simply prepare them for work in a knowledge age but transforms their lives.
- The Perils of Policy: success, amnesia and collateral damage in systemic educational reform
In presenting the Miegunyah Lecture at the University of Melbourne 10 March 2010, Professor Robin Alexander, Director of the Cambridge Primary Review offers a commentary on the English experiment in centralised reform, high stakes testing and inspections and nationally-prescribed curriculum and teaching practices, and invites consideration of its lessons for Australian educators.
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