Our school is a new school (in its fourth year) so it is our first year with seniors. We have Year 12 this year.
But we need to teach them how to behave and act and what that means. They have had no role models to show them what it means
But what a difference in the school with those sensible young adults around looking and acting so smart. Forgot how much I missed them with their attitude, passion and caring.
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Rolemodelling? Ok, ok - you're only discussing the boring daily grind and how to make things go smoothly.
But, rolemodelling?!? If we really do have all our own circumstances to work with, um, wake up... Moreover, isn't rolemodelling more a part of human behaviour to teach an understanding of, so that an inane mimicking on misguided terms doesn't take over our lives, surely?
(I'm sure you always consider what I've just mentioned too, with good measure. I'm just being my usual theoretical self - I ran away just recently from a discussion on why cultural anthropologists and sociologists have hated each other - I think it involves all the taking-things-at-face-value stuff that many teachers seem to have been suckered straight into. There's also the popular (un)thinking that the two fields of anthro and sociology combined largely comprise a happy-clappy people-orientated bunch. I think the difference I have in mind would inform. I've never known anthropologists to go to cultural festivals in order to just mix-in and be entertained. I've known sociologists to do so, insist that everyone should do, and come away incredibly mixed-up!
Wider pic of rolemodelling/example setting, IMHO : There's only so much assuming that valuing systems easily map onto each other and what gets too narrowly defined as "participation" that I can ever take. There was not much else I thought I could do at school but keep an incredibly firm lid on myself, remember...! I've never put it so plainly in saying that it was easier to think of the ridiculous paraphrenalia of school as part of the legal requirement I had to endure before varsity, and it was not a very social-intellectually stimulating place otherwise. That's just how it went ~18 years ago. School was better for me when I was around those who didn't try to dress it up, but seemed to respect that we all had things just to get on and do. I gave up on conscious example-setting because it seemed the magnitude of noise lost in any translation was just as big as had I not diverted any concentration from what I had to do for my own sake! I've adopted such a stance again, and I'm getting results)
I am still complete with a tendancy to run far from the maddening crowd (god knows where I get that from...!).
Wrt your first blog entry of this year - talk about the ultimate in institutionalization!! It's good to see!
as ever,
k
Hope my writing itself would have made it clear that's that what I would have said about rolemodelling whatever the case - yes, I was only being a right little hack. I smoothed out my webpage last night as well, that needed to become more gentle too, and personable, rather than skittish.
Am tralling out a speech synthesizer right now - I've been given the impression no one seems to use theirs' for very abstract conversation in NZ, but just for food! I'm thinking that might actually make quite a lot of sense...
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