Heres something we werent aware of. Education Today, is the journal for Australian principals, and published an article about SRI in their Term 2 issue this year. The article examines why the SRI program is so contentious today. Hopefully this gave our school principals something to think about, in the lead up to the MD141. educationtoday.au/article/First-877 Given the increased pressures on schools to deliver content in what is often described as a ‘crowded curriculum’, it would seem counter-intuitive to give over teaching time to a subject that is optional, and that in our increasingly multicultural society, does not meet the needs of a growing number of students. Monash University lecturer Dr David Zyngier was quoted early in 2014 as saying, “I have reviewed all six booklets produced by Access Ministries, and it’s basically low order, unintelligent, busy work and rote learning”. Dr Zyngier also expressed concern that the classes were taken by volunteers rather than qualified teachers, a fact that many parents are unaware of. As the push for increased school autonomy intensifies and schools are held more accountable for their results, there is potential for public school principals to exercise greater control over how time is allocated. This is already evident in Victoria, where earlier this year the principal of Cranbourne South Primary School decided to stop the provision of SRI classes after examining the content and concluding, “It is rubbish – hollow and empty rhetoric… my school teachers are committed to teaching children, not indoctrinating them
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:29:53 +0000
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