Valerie Hannon: what is school for?
Our school system needs an urgent update - not only to help kids thrive in a transforming world but so our species can survive, says UK educator Valerie Hannon.
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Sir Ken Robinson: why schools need to tap into kids' talents
Sir Ken Robinson is an education professor, advisor and author whose 2006 TED talk "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" has been viewed online more than 40 million times.
Sir Ken Robinson: educator and thought leader. Photo: Supplied
Learning revolution or pathway to ignorance?
Insight - Secondary schools are divided over new methods of teaching and learning. John Gerritsen investigates the heated debate over how best to teach our teens.
Angus Lynch, Jennifer Berry, Molly Scott, Jalen Wilson at Hobsonville Point Secondary School Photo: RNZ/John Gerritsen
Should te reo Māori be compulsory in school?
What could come from a greater understanding of te reo Māori and New Zealand's past? With enduring calls to make language and history compulsory at school, Leigh-Marama McLachlan asks current learners what they get out of learning te reo.
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BANG! Season 2 Episode 1: Like A Virgin
Melody Thomas asks people what it was like "the first time" and looks at whether the way we talk about virginity is actually a little unhelpful.
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Katharine Birbalsingh: the UK's strictest teacher
Controversial New Zealand-born teacher Katharine Birbalsingh has been called the "strictest teacher in Britain" - and the charter-style school she founded, Britain's strictest school. She tells Lynn Freeman that the school's military ethos works, especially for its disadvantaged inner-city pupils.
Michaela Community School principal Katharine Birbalsingh with former Mayor of London Boris Johnson. Photo: Michaela Community School
Dangerous daycares
Insight - Nearly every child now attends some form of early education before they start school. But cracks are starting to show in the system and children could be at risk.
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Should NZ schools ban mobile phones?
Insight - Mobile phones in schools are being accused of derailing learning and causing bitter squabbles between teachers and students as they try to police every ding, vibration and social media notification. Teresa Cowie asks Kiwi students what they think about phone bans.
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Beginning of the end for religious classes in schools?
A powerful secular group says schools' religious classes favour Christianity and divide children, and the government is turning its focus on the classes too. Max Towle explores whether they'll survive.
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Examining the schools of tomorrow
Schools are facing their biggest overhaul in 30 years as the government reviews the way they are run, organised and funded.
Maraeroa School principal Kathleen O'Hare is enthusiastic about the local schools working together Photo: RNZ Insight/John Gerritsen
