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Nineteen Eighty Nine 1989

So what's the point?

Telelink allows us to share electronic mail via computer. The Schools Year Twelve and Tertiary Entrance Certificate (STC-only available in Victoria) has opened a new world for students (and teachers) at Broadford High School.

Our concept of a goal based noncompetitive senior curriculum, initiated by my colleague John Cousins, and our team in 1987, has shown me the power of enquiry based learning.

The release of Margaret Batten's ACER Monographs No.33 on YEAR 12:Students Expectations and Experiences did, in a nutshell, confirm the value and depth of impact the STC 'alternative' course was having on my students and our community.

Batten, M. YEAR 12:Students Expectations and Experiences (89.01)
A truly outstanding piece of research the documents and demonstrates the power of student participation, cooperative learning and flexible assessment.. More >>

Johnston, B. & Dowdy, S. Teaching and Assessing in a Negotiated Curriculum. (89.02)
A detailed and accessible work on the "work required" approach to negotiated curriculum. More >>

Freeman, M. One for All (89.03)
Democratic Senior curriculum. At its core is concern for post-compulsory retention rates. The ingredients of valuing and building on the variety of student background and experience in a cooperative endeavour. STC. More >>

Fisher, S. and Hicks, D. World Studies (89.04)
"The world we live in contains Elephants. The classrooms of our schools should therefore reflect our need to know about and to understand elephants. Resources should be allocated urgently to more and better elephant education. More >>

Fein, J. and Gerber, R.Teaching Geography for a Better World. (89.05)
This collection reflects the main themes of the Tenth Australian National Conference of the Australian Geography Teachers Association.

Everett Reimer : School is Dead (89.06)

Published in 1971,this collection of essays reminds us that most of the children in the world are not in school. Are schools the purveyors of 'dead knowledge'?More >>

Hall.R & Scott.LGlobal Issues: Viewpoints in General Studies. (89.07)
A general studies text from New South Wales that breaks the mould. More >>

Fein.J. (ed) Living in a Global Environment: Classroom activities in Development Education (89.08)
A Child born today will be faced as an adult almost daily, with problems of a global interdependent nature, be it peace, food, the quality of life, inflation, or scarcity of resources. More >>

AEC: The Hobart Declaration (89.09) In April 1989, State, Territory and Commonwealth Ministers of Educationmet as the Australian Education Council (AEC) in Hobart. Ministers made an historic commitment to improving Australian schooling within a framework of national collaboration by reaching agreement to address the areas of common concern embodied in the ten Common and Agreed National Goals for Schooling in Australia. More >>

Papert,S.(1976)Some Poetic and Social Criteria for Education Design : (89.10) More>>

Papert,S. (1982)"Tomorrow's Classrooms?" -Times educational Supplement: (89.11)

A great little observation from 1982.

In New York City there is a growing number of classrooms, I believe nearly fifty now, where future and past seem to meet. In the front a chalkboard: a teacher talking, perhaps about sentences, perhaps about ratios, in the middle desks: children sitting, some listening, some dreaming. Familiar. At the back something different. Two computers side by side against the wall: a child working at each keyboard. Sometimes a little group around them, sometimes excited talk, sometimes exaggerated by the clicks and the beeps of the machine.

Friere,P. & Papert ,S. The future of school. (89.12)

The following discussion between Seymour Papert and the Brazilian philosopher and educator Paolo Freire took place in Brazil during the late 1980s. It was sponsored by Pontifícia Universidade Católica, the Catholic University of São Paulo; and the Afternoon Journal TV show. It was broadcast in Brazil by TV PUC São Paulo and KTV Solucoes.

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