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Nueva Zelanda: ‘Real world’ journo schools face ethical dilemmas

Nueva Zelanda / 27 de julio de 2016 / Por: TJ Aumua / Fuente: http://asiapacificreport.nz/

“Teaching hospital” is a model that is regarded as a way for journalism educatorWJEC wide logo 150wides to turn their classrooms into newsrooms by immersing students into a practical learning environment. But it is often debated among media educators who are continuously faced with ethical dilemmas of trying to provide a real world learning experience while staying within the boundaries of institutional ethics and keeping students safe on location. It was a topic discussed among media educators at the 4th World Journalism Education Congress in New Zealand this week.

‘Real world’ vs learning environment
The teaching hospital model has been a success in their journalism school, says Associate Professor Katherine Reed of the Missouri School of Journalism, who was chairing the panel.

Talking to Asia Pacific Report, she said students had been “Pulitzer prize winners” and are able to find work and contribute towards interesting projects after graduation.

But it has not been without its challenges either, Reed admitted.

During the panel debate, she mentioned the ethical dilemmas she had faced when applying a real world working environment within a university.

She gave an example of her journalism students wanting to cover the conflict and unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.

“I told them it was too dangerous,” Reed said.

“Stories that were not an ‘imminent threat’ but still served the community, were important to cover.”

She said although there were challenges, it’s important that stories continue to serve the community otherwise “we are teaching our students to be self-absorbed”.

Reed also questioned how students could cope with the stress that comes with the workload of a newsroom as well as being able to meet deadlines for other subject assignments.

Professor of journalism at the University of Florida, Dr Kim Walsh-Childers, said the model was a success because it allowed students to write for their wider community and “past their own university audiences”.

But she said conflicts of interest for the university could also arise as a result.

Post-traumatic care
Professor Harry Dugmore of the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University in South Africa said his class have had “real, live and fiery debates” concerning ethics while practising the model.

(From left): Professor Harry Dugmore and Dr. Walsh-Childers on the 'teaching hospital' panel debate. Image: TJ Aumua/PMC
(From left): Professor Harry Dugmore and Dr. Walsh-Childers on the ‘teaching hospital’ panel debate. Image: TJ Aumua/PMC

Dugmore said the school had applied “analytical tools from sociology and political science” to the teaching hospital theory; allowing students to gain insight into understanding dispositions and conflicts in their country.

“It confronts them with the reality of South Africa and allows them to be more sensitive journalists,” he toldAsia Pacific Report.

During his presentation, Dr Dugmore highlighted a student incident that emphasised the need for post-traumatic care for students.

He said a group of university students produced a story addressing the issue of rape culture within the campus, in which names of several alleged rapists were anonymously published.

The university was then “barred and barricaded for a week”.

Despite the story providing a platform to voice a serious issue, it did raise the need for the model to include “debriefing and post-traumatic care for students”, he said.

Listen to an extended interview with Associate Professor Katherine Reed, where she defines the teaching hospital model and explains why she disagrees with the metaphor, saying the model is better compared to the workings of a “kitchen” not a hospital.

Fuente noticia: http://asiapacificreport.nz/2016/07/18/wjec16-real-world-journo-schools-face-ethical-dilemmas/

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Nueva Zelanda: Tertiary staff face immense pressure – survey

Oceania/Nueva Zelanda/24 de Julio de 2016/Autor: Mani Dunlop/Fuente: RNZ

Resumen: Un estudio sobre la educación terciaria dice que más de 1000 personas muestran los niveles de estrés del personal de las universidades y politecnicos, afirmando que ahora son mucho más altos que hace 10 años. Sandra Grey, presidente nacional   dijo que muchos de los encuestados, de 25 instituciones, dijeron que sintieron que no tenían la seguridad laboral y no estaban siendo escuchadas por su empleador. «La encuesta muestra un sistema bajo presión absoluta», dijo. Esto significa que están muy preocupados por la calidad de la enseñanza y los servicios de aprendizaje y de apoyo en el campus porque el personal estresado realmente se esfuerzan por proporcionar una educación de calidad hacer bien su trabajo «. El sindicato recibió 2334 respuestas escritas a partir de 1006 entrevistados para la encuesta y el Dr. Gris dijo que contaron la historia real de lo que estaba ocurriendo en el sector.

A survey suggests budget cuts and restructuring in the tertiary sector is causing increased stress levels for staff who say they are under immense pressure.

The Tertiary Education Union says its own survey of more than 1000 people shows stress levels of staff at universities, polytechnics and wānanga are much higher than 10 years ago.

National president Sandra Grey said a lot of the respondents, from 25 institutions, said they felt they had no job security and were not being listened to by their employer.

«The survey shows a system under absolute pressure,» she said.

«Even since 2013, what we are are seeing are increasing stress levels for staff in the system and in turn this means they are really worried about the quality of teaching and learning and support services on campus because stressed staff really struggle to provide good quality education to do their jobs well.»

The union received 2334 written responses from 1006 respondents for the survey and Dr Grey said they told the real story of what was going on in the sector.

«We had one talking about student support services being cut because of budgets.

«They had a suicidal student and when they went to student support they said ‘come back tomorrow, we don’t have anyone here who can help you because we don’t have the staff.’,» Dr Grey said.

«You can’t do that when it comes to suicidal students. We have got real on-the-ground harm being done in our institutions by underfunding.»

She said one of the contributing factors was the growing student-to-staff ratio and despite drops in enrolments in recent years, there were still fewer staff compared to students.

«Tertiary institutions are cutting staff numbers because they need to make savings, they just don’t have the money. The government is underfunding the sector by more than a million dollars, and that means institutions need to make savings and the savings are in staff.»

Fuente: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/309292/tertiary-staff-face-immense-pressure-survey

 

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Nueva Zelanda: Overseas recruitment drives planned to tackle teacher shortage

Oceanía/Nueva Zelanda/22 de Junio de 2016/Autor: Meghan Lawrence/Fuente: Stuff

RESUMEN: La  Ministra de Educación Hekia Parata ha dicho públicamente que va a hacer anuncios sobre una serie de iniciativas sobre la oferta de docentes en un futuro próximo.Una escasez crítica se puso de relieve en un estudio reciente llevado a cabo por la Asociación de Directores de Auckland donde el 65 por ciento de las escuelas que respondieron había experimentado un número muy bajo de solicitantes de empleo.«Sabemos que los directores de Auckland están preocupados por las presiones sobre la oferta de docentes. Consideramos que esta área es una prioridad, por lo que hemos estado trabajando duro para áreas donde se han identificado carencias, como la secundaria  en ciencias, las matemáticas y la tecnología «

A plea from Auckland principals for national acknowledgement of a teacher shortage has been met with support from the Ministry of Education.

A critical shortage was highlighted in a recent survey undertaken by the Auckland Primary Principals’ Association where 65 per cent of schools that responded had experienced very low numbers of job applicants.

Association president Diane Manners says there are schools with no applicants and a significant percentage with only three or less.

«That is a significant concern as it is only term two and the schools we surveyed are predicting a very large number of positions still required between now and December.»

The ministry’s acting deputy secretary for early learning and student achievement, Karl Le Quesne, says it has been meeting regularly with Auckland principals and other education leaders to develop solutions.

«We know Auckland principals are concerned about pressures on teacher supply. We consider this area a priority, which is why we’ve been working hard to address areas where shortages have been identified, such as the secondary sciences, maths, technology and te reo Maori.»

Education Minister Hekia Parata has said publicly she will be making announcements on a range of initiatives on teacher supply in the near future.

Le Quesne says its first focus is on bringing Kiwi teachers back home from the United Kingdom to fill positions.

«We’ve been undertaking a series of recruitment drives in the UK, the last of which was in March,» he says.

«We are already supporting more than 200 overseas-trained teachers looking for positions in New Zealand.
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«We are matching them to roles where a suitable New Zealand-based candidate cannot be found and helping them through the processes required by a number of government agencies.»

Le Quesne says a number of Auckland schools are also sending representatives to the Britain to interview applicants for positions.

«To back this up, we are speeding up the approval processes for overseas teachers coming to work in New Zealand schools by working with Immigration, NZQA and the Education Council.»

The ministry plans to launch a British advertising campaign in September, before its next recruitment drive in October.

Fuente: http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/82316486/overseas-recruitment-drives-planned-to-tackle-teacher-shortage

 

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Estos niños crecen sin tecnología

Nueva Zelanda/yorokobu.es/20 de Julio de 2016

Niki Boon está documentando la infancia anacrónica de sus hijos. Sus fotos en blanco y negro muestran el día a día de unos niños sin escuela, (casi) sin ropa, sin Internet y sin aparatos electrónicos en torno a una casa de madera

La mayor parte de los lujos, también llamados ‘comodidades de la vida’, no sólo es innecesaria, sino que se convierte en impedimento para la elevación de la humanidad

En 1907, cuando Rudolf Steiner publicó su ensayo La educación a la luz de la Ciencia Espiritual, este titular sólo habría podido ser la puerta a un mundo imaginario. El título de un cuento futurista o un absurdo. Aquella idea de alumbrar una nueva educación alternativa e independiente se convirtió en una realidad en 1919, cuando se creó la primera escuela Waldorf. Hoy, más de mil escuelas en unos sesenta países imparten ese tipo de educación. La cantidad de padres que optan por este sistema educativo ideado por Steiner, en cambio, es incontable.

Los pilares ideológicos de este tipo de enseñanza no han dejado de expandirse entre padres que no quieren imaginar a sus hijos pegados a una silla y un pupitre, memorizando información a menudo sesgada y poco necesaria para entrar en una carrera de fondo por ser el mejor de la clase. Son los padres que no creen que un número del 1 al 10 sirva para que sus hijos se hagan una idea de sí mismos; de su mayor o menor inteligencia y de su mayor o menor valía. La creatividad y el arte, mientras, castigados en un rincón.

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El niño, entendido como una individualidad de alma y cuerpo en crecimiento atravesaría un proceso de madurez que, según Steiner, culminaría en la búsqueda de la verdad. Para ello, pasaba por una fase crucial en la que la imaginación y la creación artística conformaban las bases del auténtico aprendizaje.

Niki Boon acababa de dejar la fisioterapia para dedicarse plenamente a educar a sus hijos en Marlborough, al sur de Nueva Zelanda. Su marido aún se dedica a las finanzas. Junto con sus cuatro hijos, Kurt, Rebecca, Anton y Arwen, viven en una casa de madera dentro de una propiedad de diez acres. De ahí que las fotos de sus hijos evoquen una vida plenamente campestre, aunque no sea del todo así.

Niki-Boon-(5)

No sólo no escolarizaron a sus hijos, sino que alentados por las ideas de Steiner, decidieron alejarlos de la televisión, de internet, de móviles y ordenadores. «No les hemos prohibido estrictamente que usen los aparatos electrónicos y no nos parece mal si quieren jugar con los ordenadores de sus amigos, pero hablamos con ellos de los beneficios de limitar su uso y a menudo también hablamos sobre por qué no los tenemos en casa. Los disfrutan cuando tienen acceso a ellos en las casas de sus amigos, pero ellos nunca llegan a casa preguntando por nada de eso», explica Niki Boon a Yorokobu.

Boon no reniega absolutamente de la tecnología. Aunque no tienen televisión, disponen de una tableta y los niños a veces ven películas en un ordenador. Pero eso sólo ocurre en momentos especiales como sus cumpleaños. Puesto que no lo necesitan, tampoco lo piden. La fotógrafa es consciente de que en el futuro necesitarán un ordenador o internet, que algún día sus necesidades serán distintas, pero mientras sigan siendo pequeños, la búsqueda de información, salvo casos muy puntuales, la realizarán a través de los libros. El mundo que les rodea les llegará a través de sus cinco sentidos.

Esta fotógrafa autodidacta no cree que lo que está haciendo sea especial. Como cualquier madre entregada que quiere disponer siempre de imágenes de la infancia de sus hijos, empezó a documentar cómo vivían. «Me parece que fue después de decidir educarlos de una manera alternativa cuando el hecho de documentar su infancia tomó un nuevo significado para mí», recuerda.

A la fotógrafa poco le interesan los colores. Por eso ha elegido el blanco y negro para las fotos que protagonizan sus cuatro hijos. El blanco y negro le permite ver la luz de un modo diferente que le ayuda a centrarse más en la dirección y en la calidad de la luz que en los colores. «Encuentro la interacción entre la luz y la sombra más interesante que las relaciones entre los colores», aclara.

Niki-Boon-(7)

Ha aprendido a fotografiar a base de hacerlo, igual que aprenden sus hijos: con las manos y los pies sobre el terreno. «Para mí, el mayor aprendizaje viene de tomar muchísimas fotos. Así es como encontré mi estilo y como he practicado los aspectos técnicos con la cámara. También así es como he tanteado mis estrategias», relata.

Lo que Boon quería era explorar la infancia desde todas las perspectivas posibles y entender lo que era ser niño y crecer. «Por esta razón, decidí también enseñar las imágenes que mostrasen la soledad de la infancia, el dolor que también se experimenta. No quise evitar los aspectos menos felices de ese viaje».

Un viaje. Así es como Niki Boon ha llegado a entender el crecimiento. El inglés permite ciertos matices que se escapan a la traducción, porque lo que esta madre quería mostrar era toda la gama: «solitude» y «loneliness»; «pain» y «hurt». Hay grados de soledad como hay grados de dolor. No es lo mismo estar a solas que sentirse solo, como no es igual sentir dolor que sentirse herido. En ambos casos el matiz es idéntico y siempre tiene que ver con el entorno: lo que los diferencia es lo que la propia persona siente. Esas heridas y esas soledades, con sus distintos grados, es lo que Niki Boon plasma en sus fotografías: una idea de la infancia no tan idílica como se tiende a recordar o imaginar.

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A menudo, Boon recibe críticas por la forma en la que está criando y exhibiendo a sus hijos, pero le afecta poco porque, según afirma, «cada uno tiene derecho a opinar lo que quiera». Si está tan tranquila es porque tiene la convicción de que la manera en la que está educando a sus hijos es una buena opción para ellos, pero reconoce «que cada uno es diferente y que tanto padres como profesores eligen qué es lo mejor para sus niños en función de las circunstancias. Puede que la forma en la que han elegido que crezcan sus niños influya en la nuestra también… pero ahora mismo son felices y están aprendiendo a vivir felizmente con lo que tienen».

Digan lo que digan los más críticos con ella y con otros padres que han optado por un tipo de enseñanza alternativa, varios estudios explican que la infancia anacrónica que están experimentando sus hijos no sólo es adecuada, sino que a menudo está un poco más cerca de la ideal. Por ejemplo, los niños que crecen al aire libre suelen desarrollar un sistema inmunológico más fuerte que les previene de enfermedades en mayor medida que al resto, según concluyeron investigadores suecos. Mientras, la OECD observó que el rendimiento académico apenas varía en los colegios equipados con ordenadores.

Niki-Boon-(11)

No en balde, los creadores de los aparatos electrónicos más utilizados envían a sus hijos a colegios sin tecnología. A la escuela Waldorf de Península (California) asisten los hijos de los nombres más conocidos de Sillicon Valley. Los padres de la mayoría de estos alumnos trabajan en Google, Apple, Ebbay y HP. Allí no hay ordenadores ni aparatos electrónicos porque sus propios creadores son conscientes de que entre las competencias que se exigen en el trabajo actual, la creatividad es fundamental. Y eso no es algo que se aprenda ante una pantalla, sino tocando y pisando el mundo real. A veces, incluso mojándose bajo la lluvia y volviendo a casa con manchas de barro.

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Fuente:http://www.yorokobu.es/niki-boon/

 

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Nueva Zelanda: Digital technology in schools ‘as important’ as English and maths

Oceanía/Nueva Zelanda/17 de Julio de 2016/Autor: Te Ahua Maitland/Fuente: Stuff

RESUMEN: Codificación, Depuración de Errores, HTML, algoritmos y programación pueden sonar como una lengua extranjera a la generación más antigua de Nueva Zelanda.
Pero para los niños de hoy dia , no tanto. Y llegado el año 2018, los niños de la edad de cinco años serán aún más diestros en la tecnología digital si el tema  se añade al plan de estudios nacional. El Ministerio de Educación anunció el 7 de julio que se cubrirá seis temas, con el diseño aún no se ha finalizado. Mateo Walmsley, 13, es un buen ejemplo de los niños conozcan  codificación a una edad temprana. El interés del estudiante Tai Wananga Ruakura en la codificación se despertó cuando tenía sólo ocho través  de “Vengadores” un código de negocio de su hermano en Hamilton. «Hice la codificación, por lo que implica HTML, CSS, diseño y ese tipo de cosas.»
También ha ayudado a los maestros con problemas de tecnología y piensa que es una gran ventaja para empezar a enseñar la tecnología digital desde el primer año.
«Creo que todas las cosas de la tecnología digital ayuda a los niños con la resolución de problemas y el pensamiento de nuevas maneras», dijo.

Coding, de-bugging, HTML, algorithms and programming may sound like a foreign language to the older generation of New Zealand.

But for children, not so much. And come 2018, children from the age of five will be even more drilled on digital technology with the subject being added to the national school curriculum.

The Ministry of Education announced on July 7 the subject will cover six themes, with the layout still to be finalised.

Matthew Walmsley, 13, is a prime example of kids getting into coding at a young age.

The Tai Wananga Ruakura student’s interest in coding was piqued when he was just eight through his brother’s business Code Avengers in Hamilton.

He sometimes works for the company in the school holidays; validating courses, writing code, and setting up web pages.

«I’ve always really liked math and numbers, and creating things and Lego and Connect,» he said.

«So you put those two together, I enjoy creating things involving lots of numbers and on computers.»

Last year, while he was still at intermediate, Walmsley and his group gave a presentation on artificial intelligence, and he made a website.

«I did the coding, so that involves HTML, CSS, design and that kind of thing.»

He’s also helped teachers with tech problems and thinks it is a great advantage to start teaching digital technology from Year One.

«I think all the digital technology stuff helps kids with problem solving and thinking of new ways,» he said.

«It will help a lot, especially now things are becoming more online.»

Chief executive of Orion Health, Ian McCrae, said in order for the subject to work in schools, it needs to be taken seriously.

He said it is positioned in the «less academic» subjects, such as food technology, fabric technology, wood and metal work.

«It needs to be placed in the same category as your historically academic subjects such as maths, English, chemistry, physics,» he said.

«Look at the Year 13 curriculum, you can get six credits for making a cream puff for food technology.»

He believes the sector is generating about 3000 jobs a year, and only 1500 are coming out of the education system.

«To be successful in life we have to be fluent in English, or have good English skills. But being tech literate is increasingly becoming important. You cannot succeed today if you’re not technologically literate. In any field.

«We’re directing our kids into areas where there are far less job opportunities. The digital technology sectors are heading towards being the second largest exporter after dairy.»

But if teachers do not get the resourcing and training they need, they will end up being in a «big puddle», New Zealand Association for Computing, Digital and Information Technology Teachers member, Gerard MacManus said.

He said a third of New Zealand students are not taught by a qualified maths teacher in their first year of high school.

«Are we going to see the same thing happen with digital technologies? Because at the moment we don’t have the teachers.»

The secondary school teacher said he knows of technology teaching jobs that have been advertised for a year at least.

But his main concern was for the primary and intermediate school teachers.

«Who is going to help them to teach digital technology from Year One?

«We need to make a meaningful context from when it is integrated at the lower levels, for kids to fin interesting, creative ways to use it.»

Fuente: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/82069579/Digital-technology-in-schools-as-important-as-English-and-maths

 

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Dozens of New Zealand schools hacked, access put up for online sale

Oceanía/Nueva Zelanda/14 de Julio de 2016/Autores: Emily Murphy And Pat Pilcher/Fuente: Stuff

RESUMEN: Decenas de escuelas de Nueva Zelanda han tenido sus servidores hackeados y el acceso a ellos acondicionados para la venta en línea. Hasta 36 escuelas tenían sus servidores comprometidos la semana pasada, de acuerdo con N4L, una compañía de educación de TI de propiedad del gobierno. Los directores de escuela dijeron que sus redes a menudo contenían información confidencial, como datos de contacto, registros de asistencia y calificaciones de los alumnos. En Auckland fueron atacados 11 escuelas. Había cuatro en Wellington, y tres en Otago y Southland. Cinco escuelas fueron atacadas Waikato, cuatro eran de la Bahía de Hawkes, y otros cuatro estaban en la región de Taranaki. El jefe de operaciones N4L Jeremy Nees no podía decir cómo se produjo el ataque. «No hemos realizado análisis forense detallados en los servidores afectados, sin embargo, es muy probable que la vulnerabilidad era una combinación de contraseñas débiles y permitir que los intentos de registro repetidas veces»
Dozens of New Zealand schools have had their servers hacked and access to them put up for sale online.
Up to 36 schools had their servers compromised last week, according to N4L, an education IT company owned by the government.
School principals said their networks often contained sensitive information such as contact details, attendance records, and pupils’ grades.
In Auckland 11 schools were targeted. There were four in Wellington, and three in Otago and Southland.
Five Waikato schools were attacked, four were from the Hawkes Bay, and another four were in the Taranaki region.
Two were in Northland, one in Marlborough, one in Canterbury and another in the Bay of Plenty.
N4L chief operating officer Jeremy Nees could not say how the attack happened.
«We have not performed detailed forensics on the affected servers, however, it is most likely the vulnerability was a combination of weak passwords and allowing repeated log-in attempts.»
70 domain names for servers at 36 schools were included on a global list of 70,000.
Access to the compromised servers was put up for sale on an underground online marketplace, Nees said.
It’s unclear whether any sales took place.
According to software security company Kapersky Labs, the server access was sold by a Russian hacking group.
Ministry of Education head of sector enablement and support Steve Stuart said the motivation for the attacks remained unknown.
He said there were a «range of reasons» hackers targeted servers, including «sending spam or for pure financial gain.»
The marketplace has been closed down, but Nees expected the «attempts to compromise or infect computers would continue.»
The Ministry of Education advised schools to check whether their servers had been compromised.
Stuart said the ministry was in regular contact with the 36 schools to provide «advice and support about how they can remedy the situation.»
NetSafe executive director Martin Cocker said schools did not always have the right level of protection in place.
They were often squeezed between «the reality of their budget and the complexity of the networks they run», he said.
Complex decisions around the security of networks was often in the hands of educators, rather than qualified experts, he said.
The rapid uptake of technology in schools, including bring-your-own-device [BYOD] schemes made school networks increasingly complicated, with hundreds of pupils’ devices on one network.
«I really think we’re getting to the time where schools would appreciate a solution provided for them in terms of system management, and security management.»
Schools manage their own cyber security, using money from their operational grant to fund protection.
They have access to a government funded network for support, but some prefer to use external companies.
Linewize Founder Scott Noakes said his company provided support for over 200 schools in New Zealand.
The most common problem was that schools weren’t separating BYOD traffic from their internal servers, he said.
The devices students bought to school sometimes had malware installed, and could make a school’s network more vulnerable to attacks, he said.
Noakes said some schools had strong networks, while some were at the «opposite end of the spectrum.»
Lincoln primary school principal Viv Butcher said her school’s system was «robust», but it came at a cost.
The school’s deputy principal and another teacher managed the network, but Butcher said both were «highly skilled.»
Cashmere High School principal Mark Wilson said an external company managed his school’s network.
The school planned to spend around $400,000 on ICT this year, which included the cost of salaries for two expert technicians.
Foto: Scott Noakes, CEO of Linewize said schools sometimes make themselves vulnerable to hackers.

Fuente: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/82112042/dozens-of-new-zealand-schools-hacked-access-put-up-for-online-sale

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Nueva Zelanda: Teacher bias hurting Māori education

Oceanía/Nueva Zelanda/10 de Julio de 2016/Autora: Kate Pereyra Garcia/RadioNZ

RESUMEN: Un nuevo estudio ha encontrado que el  sesgo inconsciente de los maestros está afectando el rendimiento de los estudiantes maoríes.  La predisposición inconsciente y el informe de Educación, publicado hoy, compararon el efecto que tienen las bajas expectativas de los estudiantes maoríes de aquí y los estudiantes afroamericanos en los Estados Unidos. El informe es una revisión de la investigación existente. Su investigador principal, Anton Blank, dijo que los  estereotipos negativos maoríes eran en parte culpables del bajo rendimiento maorí, aunque la pobreza también desempeñó un papel.  El informe también encontró que la formación de la conciencia cultural y de alto nivel como estrategias por sí solas no eran suficientes para combatirlo. La solución estaba en la sensibilización de sus propios prejuicios a los maestros a través del desarrollo profesional, dijo el señor Blank.

Unconscious bias from teachers is affecting the performance of Māori students, a new study has found.

The Unconscious Bias and Education report, released today, compared the effect low expectations had on Māori students here and African-American students in the United States. The report is a review of existing research.

Its principal investigator, Anton Blank, said negative Māori stereotypes were partly to blame for Māori underachievement, although poverty also played a role.

«Definitely socio-economic factors – and I mean that’s patently obvious that children who live in poorer areas do less well in the education system.

«But even controlling for that there is still a very, very significant gap. We argue that that is about the unconscious bias at play between teachers and students.»

He said people pointed to the blatant racism in the US as a way of claiming racism did not exist in New Zealand.

But it was something that was happening here on a «systematic level» and so was harder to detect.

«We’ve had a lot of race relations discussion, a lot of bicultural discussion over the last 30 years so I think people know not to articulate their biases publicly, but under the surface the biases are still there.»

The report also found that cultural awareness training and high-level strategies alone were not enough to combat it.

The solution lay in raising teachers’ awareness of their own bias through professional development, Mr Blank said.

The report’s co-author, Auckland University senior lecturer Carla Houkamau, said the report was not about attacking teachers, but rather working with them for better results for Māori students.

Dr Houkamau said everyone has an underlying bias.

«The thing is with implicit bias is people don’t know that they’ve got it, so when you talk to people about it it can be really quite difficult, it can be quite confronting.»

She believed changes could be made now to improve Māori student achievement, but more research measuring inherent bias was needed.

Teachers tended to be warmer, offer more in-depth feedback, and take more time to explain things to students they expected to do well, Dr Houkamau said.

«So if you’ve got a group that you implicitly don’t expect to succeed you’re not going to be giving them that challenging information,» she said. «Also when teachers think their students are going to do well they’re more likely to interact with them more frequently because they think that the students are really worth the effort.»

Post Primary Teachers Association president Angela Roberts said the education system had come a long way in recent years.

While there were still significant challenges for Māori students she didn’t believe it was as bad as the latest report suggested.

«I think we’ve moved on a long way from the 90s, we’re not there yet, but we’ve made great improvement to how we engage with our Māori students and I think that the New Zealand evidence actually bares that out.»

Ms Roberts said the Te Kotahitanga research and professional development programme was a big help but was stopped because it was expensive.

«It provided professional development and an opportunity for teachers to collaborate, watch each other teach, challenge each other and shift the way we responded to our Māori students.»

Cabinet set the guidelines for teacher professional development without consulting teachers and had settled on the areas of science, maths, literacy; digital literacy; and health and wellbeing, she said.

Fuente: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/308357/teacher-bias-hurting-maori-education

 

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