Primary school children who belong to ethnic minorities are especially vulnerable to dropping out of school early. If teachers were better equipped to deal with multiculturalism, this could change.
From 2017, students will be assessed on skills such as problem solving.
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Teaching students skills such as creative thinking and problem solving will become part of the curriculum from 2017. But in order to assess these capabilities, teaching styles will have to change.
Reviving languages is no easy task – it needs teachers, a staged curriculum and resources.
The government’s plan to prioritise the revival of Indigenous languages in New South Wales is a welcome first step. Truly achieving it will take several more.
Science teaching needs to engage all pupils, whether they’re future scientists or not.
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Science that students learn in context - rather than science as isolated knowledge items - can deliver both scientific literacy and positive learner interest.
University “transformation” has a unique meaning in South Africa.
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Research shows that many young Australians are not aware of appropriate boundaries in relationships. It’s important that children are informed by research rather than rhetoric.
South Africa has 11 official languages. Why do universities only favour two?
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Universities pay too little attention to the knowledge and experiences that students bring to their institutions from different cultures and backgrounds.
Ancient fermentation techniques are an example of African chemistry in action.
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Knowledge is power. If you own it, you can control those without it. Since so much knowledge about Africa doesn’t sit on the continent, it’s apparent that Africa lacks power in this regard.
Interactions with Turkana families suggest the skills acquired by children from schools are not in harmony with their families’ everyday socioeconomic survival practices.
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Decolonising the curriculum is far more nuanced than replacing theorists and authors. Universities first need to define how they approach the development and dissemination of curricula.
Having a set curriculum for academic courses is leading to poor learning outcomes in students, as students’ needs aren’t being catered to.
A traditional rainmaker in Kenya. How can indigenous knowledge become part of university curricula?
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Decolonisation of the curriculum doesn’t have to mean the destruction of Western knowledge, but it’s decentring. Such knowledge should become one way of knowing rather than the only way.
For some parents, home schooling helps to focus on a child’s individual needs, rather than just on grades.
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Home-schooled children appear to do neither worse nor better than those who attend regular school, so why is there an increasing number of parents who are opting for their child to be educated at home?
Its critics complain that current Afrodiasporic literature is not in tune with everyday life on the continent. They see its versions of Africa as sanitised and Westernised.
Students cheer as a statue of Cecil John Rhodes is removed from the University of Cape Town in April 2015.
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There is a risk that because of fatigue, frustration and silencing the important moment created by South Africa’s student movements will pass by with no proper, long-term structural change.
Students at Heritage College Lake Macquarie taking it in turns to draw each other in 3-5 minutes in a rapid drawing learning activity.
Drawing can help us to think creatively and develop hand-eye coordination. But an insecurity around ‘not being able to draw’ is preventing many high-school students from using this skill.
Transforming the curriculum isn’t as simple as replacing some books with others.
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Calls for the decolonisation of countries, institutions, the mind and of knowledge are not new. In South Africa, these changes are crucial and long overdue. But they must be carefully thought through.
The Coalition made the decision to close the Office for Learning and Teaching.
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