A guide for teachers to survive and thrive by challenging conventional education practices.This book is about positive disobedience, showing teachers how to influence a system that often hinders potential. It offers stories from New Zealand schools, demonstrating how to reform assessment-obsessed systems and tick-box reporting. Discover how to change educational practices shaped by anxiety, ritual, and convention, and embrace the transformative power of thinking and acting differently.
For teachers, educators, school administrators, and parents seeking to create a more humane and engaging education. Learn how to empower students, foster creativity, and implement assessment reform.
Welby Ingsis a professor in design at Auckland University of Technology. He is an elected Fellow of the British Royal Society of Arts and a consultant to many international organizations on issues of creativity and learning. He is also an award-winning academic, designer, filmmaker and playwright. But until the age of 15 Welby could neither read nor write. He was considered ‘slow’ at school and he was eventually expelled. Later he was suspended from teachers’ college. Welby has taught at all levels of the New Zealand education system and remains an outspoken critic of the education system’s ‘obsession’ with assessing performance. In 2001 he was awarded the Prime Minister’s inaugural Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence.
It offers a critique of our ‘assessment-obsessed’ system by an award-winning educator.
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