Posts by Cathy Wylie
The Purpose of Education: a new frontier of parent-teacher interaction
In 1993 when Anne Meade and I started work on the longitudinal project that would become Competent Learners,[1] our first step was to define what the legacy of early childhood education experience should be. Until we had a clear idea of what early childhood education should contribute to the development of New Zealanders, that is,…
Read MoreThe Purpose of Education – critical and creative thinking
It is important that all students learn certain basic skills. The 3Rs – reading, writing and arithmetic – are, as Dr Cathy Wylie describes, “the spine of publically funded education.” It is also important that students leave secondary education with some record of their academic history to assist employers and tertiary education institutes in their…
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