Curriculum review
Sir, — What is new in the curriculum review that is to set education to rights? The authors tell us that teachers must be constantly retrained; the present system is failing Maori children; the culture which offers most is Maori culture; most schools are too academic and too monocultural; people are dissatisfied with the pass-fail system of examinations; “sexism” must be eliminated; the new curriculum must include conflict resolution, peace studies, trade union education, human rights education and (of course) self-esteem. And the basic requirement in the new education era must be not the silly cornerstone values of the Johnson Report back in the early days but something modern, manageable and controllable; the very latest, flexibility and adaptability. But have we not heard every bit of this before? Is it not what Mr Marshall has been saying all along? If it is all true, is it just that he spotted it right from the start? — Yours, etc., D. ELLIOT-HOGG, N.Z. Organisation for Moral Education. August 22, 1986.
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