Further to my recent post, a couple of points I have been thinking about stretching further back into the secondary & primary system:
choice is killing the notion of a curriculum. Even primary schools now offer electives – I was told recently that in at least some states music is not compulsory – students just have [...]
Ends of years are good times for taking stock. Since May I’ve been enrolled in the Marketing program at Melbourne Business School. It is the right time in my life, I think, to be back at school.
The key difference I notice between my undergraduate and graduate educations is that the latter is emphasising a body [...]
Cultural and linguistic programs are an oldie but a goodie in soft diplomacy – and I have a feeling they are going to enjoy a substantial boost in a world scrobbling to create “a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect.”
IHT is reporting on the US State Department’s English-learning programs and their [...]
I’ve finally finished my first ever Japanese textbook, An Introduction to Modern Japanese by Osamu and Nobuko Mizutani, which I started learning Japanese from 3-and-a-bit years ago. I should say I wasn’t studying it continuously during that time. I probably got to chapter 12 while I was in Japan – and I have pretty [...]
So I’m having the old assessment “conundrum”, which I think everyone gets at some stage, and which goes something like this:
“I’m studying X, and there’s this test for X. Would I learn more, and/or be happier, ignoring the test, not trying to adapt to the test specifications?”
So you encounter the artificial shape of the test, [...]
