tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post1641462932533360629..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: Losing the art of playBruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-65122149607963475412008-03-17T00:24:00.000+13:002008-03-17T00:24:00.000+13:00Our schools, at all levels, are full of inappropri...Our schools, at all levels, are full of inappropriate practices - most of them teachers trying to get kids to do things for the teachers reasons. No wonder so many kids 'disengage' or are 'off task'. We should be grateful they do if we want to develop creativity and not conformity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-37829464811564095042008-03-10T22:32:00.000+13:002008-03-10T22:32:00.000+13:00Early childhood education has become an industry -...Early childhood education has become an industry - little to do with creative education and more to do with babysitting or efforts to gain some academic learning advantage - 'kinderfactories'- all too often with inappropriate progammes.Bruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-7747084498989286132008-03-06T21:53:00.000+13:002008-03-06T21:53:00.000+13:00Only in America would children need to be taught t...Only in America would children need to be taught to play - but the signs of rampant consumerism, precious parents, and the need to get ahead at all costs, are here in middle NZ. Many childhood centres ( 'kinder factories') are already force feeding inappropriate material to their 'clients'!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-28584498282263195172008-03-04T11:01:00.000+13:002008-03-04T11:01:00.000+13:00Your blog picks up on major societal changes regar...Your blog picks up on major societal changes regarding the lives of young children: the commercialisation of play, the 'hurried' aspects of childhood, and the 'press' to get ahead at all costs.<BR/><BR/>The 'mindtools' programmes have the right intentions but, as you say, seem to go to far.<BR/><BR/>Good creative develomental programmes, with a focus on personalising learning, would seem to be a better alternative. This is the type of programmes New Zealand teachers used to be good at before the distortion of the age of accountablity.<BR/><BR/>Our 'new' New Zealand Curriculum is a step in the right direction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com