Courtesy of the lovely Maggy Wassilieff over at Kiwiblog comes the result of her investigation into all the wonderful new ideas from our Education Experts.
Maggy has a PhD in Biology and spent decades working on New Zealand environmental issues, as well as teaching.
She’s found a link to their new plans to revamp the School curriculum and strengthen Maths and Literacy teaching – or at least half of it:
Common Practice Model-2023 (Phase 1)
- Kaiako (teachers) will *recognise that the artefacts, concepts, and ideas of maths are cultural
- but Ākonga (students) areare encouraged to interrogate dominant discourses and assumptions, including that maths is benign, neutral, and culture-free.
- This will include terms such as Data sovereignty, humanising mathematics, teaching maths for social justice (TMfSJ),, ethnomathematics,maths + {conscientisation, equity, ethics, citizenship}.
Which is all funny enough but it was the following that caught my eye as Maggy bolded it:
Ākonga:
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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