Information on information: Recent curriculum reform

Studies in Philosophy and Education

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 313-321

  Marshall, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Electronic communication; Information; Knowledge; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649084391     PISSN: 00393746     EISSN: 1573191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005111718670     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Ivan Snook has reiterated this point recently on national radio (25 February 1996) in identifying further top level and almost seeret moves towards privatisation of the New Zealand education system.
2. For a detailed bibliography, see James D Marshall (ed.) (The Reforms in Education, Faculty of Education, 1995) The University of Auckland.
3. Ministry of Education, 1994.
4. See my "The Mode of Information and Education: insights on critical theory from Michel Foucault; forthcoming.in (ed.) Tom Popkewitz, Critical Theory in Educational Discourse, (New York: Routledge, 1999).
5. Constructivism in science education is an issue in hot debate in New Zealand. See Michael Matthew. Challenging New Zealand Science Education (Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1995).
6. See Glaserfeld, Ernst "An Exposition of Constructivism: why some like it radical', Journal of Research in Mathematics Education: constructivist views on the teaching and learning of mathematics. Monograph No. 4,(1990) 19-30.
7. R S Peters. Ethics and Education, (London: George Alien and Unwin, 1996).
8. See, for example. Dr Alan Barker. 'The New Zealand Qualifications Framework: practical issues in its implementation'. Paper presented to the conference, Successfully Managing Quality, Performance and Efficiency in Tertiary Education, Wellington, 13-14 April, 1993.
9. See, for example. Robin Barrow "Skill Talk', British Journal of Philosophy of Education, 21 (2), (1987) 187-201.
10. Mark Poster, The Mode of Information. (Chicago: Chicago University Press 1993) 3.
11. Sec. for example. Michel Foucault Discipline and Punish: the birth of the prison, (New York: Vintage, 1979):
12. The History of Sexuality, Vol 1 (New York: Vintage, 1980).
13. See my: (i) 'Foucault. and Neo-Liberalism: bio-power and busno-power', in Mark Olsscn and Kay Morris Matthews (ed.) Education, Democracy and Reforms (Auckland: New Zealand Association for Research in Education, 1995), 45-60;
14. and, (ii) 'Skills, Information and Quality for the Autonomous Chooser' in Alven Neiman (ed.) Proceedings of The Philosophy of Education Society 1995, (Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society. 1995) 320-329.
15. I am grateful for this point to Patrick Fitzsimons.
16. Richard A Lanham, The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology and the Arts, (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1993) 7.