Jan Thavenius: PISA:s svarta hål
1900:
”We should not forget that the things outside the schools matter even more than the things inside the schools.”
Michael Sadler (1861-1943), professor och ”champion of the public school system”
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1970:
”Education cannot compensate for society.”
Basil Bernstein (1924-2000), innehavare av Karl Mannheim Chair of the Sociology of Education, London
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1983:
”A report card on public education is a report card on the nation. Schools can rise no higher than the communities that support them.”
Ernest Boyer (1928-1995), Commissioner of Education, USA
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2010:
”Unequal societies have unequal education systems and unequal outcomes”
Robin Alexander, Professor of Education at the University of York and Chair of the Cambridge Primary Review Trust
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2012:
”if an education isn’t ’good and true’ then we must seek explanations in our society as well as our schools”
Robin Alexander
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2013
”I industriländerna finns det ett svagt negativt samband mellan PISA-resultat och mått på ekonomisk framgång och social välfärd”
Svein Sjøberg, professor em. i naturfagenes didaktikk ved Universitetet i Oslo
”Another current opposition is that said to exist between the intellect and the emotions. […] Thus we have the spectacle of professional educators decrying appeal to interest while they uphold with great dignity the need of reliance upon examinations, marks, promotions and emotions, prizes, and the time-honored paraphernalia of rewards and punishments. The effect of this situation in crippling the teacher’s sense of humor has not received the attention which it deserves.” (John Dewey, 1916 p. 208)