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OK, so, a fisk. Thread (long). https://twitter.com/GubernatorHomo/status/1286562118481915904
2 from the start, this article sets up a relationship between what is framed New Right 2.0 and upsets within #edutwitter.
I note that the article states that teachers are getting upset about the wrong thing, but more on that later.
I note that the article states that teachers are getting upset about the wrong thing, but more on that later.
3 TBF, I don't have an issue with this definition right here .
4 4 Nor do I have an issue with this bit, other than the fact that there is some false framing here: the trad movement being the "populist" one.
5 lost a tweet... (thanks @JamesTheo for a save)
Anyway, I'm not sure how the team movement is populist. And the idea that culture, politics, economics, etc. Contirubtes to something: well, yeah. That's life.
Although it's looking a bit culturally Marxist here.
Anyway, I'm not sure how the team movement is populist. And the idea that culture, politics, economics, etc. Contirubtes to something: well, yeah. That's life.
Although it's looking a bit culturally Marxist here.
6 And that means a loss of individual self determination. Which is problematic.
I wonder when Laclau will pop up...
I wonder when Laclau will pop up...
7. Anyway, this bit and the next pic does some historically inaccurate framing. And conflates right US politics with right wing UK politics.
Essentially, are we really saying that the politics of Thatcher is the same as the politics of Cameron? Or May? Or Johnson?
Essentially, are we really saying that the politics of Thatcher is the same as the politics of Cameron? Or May? Or Johnson?
8 Well, apart from Cameron and Thatcher having a strong environmental streak.
When did this New Right come about? Is it 2.0 or 3.0 and where does BJ fit in?
When did this New Right come about? Is it 2.0 or 3.0 and where does BJ fit in?
9 this bit right here is a bit strange. Thatcher, to start, was popular (until she wasn't - but, you know, that's democracy).
10 anyway education. That's why we're here. Back to it. Remember I said that the implications was that teachers were getting annoyed about the "wrong things"? Ooh, look, there's Laclau.
11.
So @tombennett71 should be irritated at massive societal things, rather than things teachers can fix in the classroom.
Am I reading that right?
Hmm.
So @tombennett71 should be irritated at massive societal things, rather than things teachers can fix in the classroom.
Am I reading that right?
Hmm.
12 So, there's a fair fixation on TB in this article.
And this article does sort of skate over the fact that maybe, just maybe, ordinary teachers have got legitimate grievances with academics who keep telling us to teach ways that don't work.
And this article does sort of skate over the fact that maybe, just maybe, ordinary teachers have got legitimate grievances with academics who keep telling us to teach ways that don't work.
13. I swear there were the old days when academics told us that, as teachers, our voice didn't matter.
And here we have an academic telling us that the person who has done more to give teachers a voice than most... is doing it wrong? Doesn't matter? Is morally dubious? Unsure.
And here we have an academic telling us that the person who has done more to give teachers a voice than most... is doing it wrong? Doesn't matter? Is morally dubious? Unsure.
14. I think this is an attempt at guilt by association. But I could be wrong.
15 can you tell I have spare brain space today?
Anyway, as a complete aside, there are some concerns over the research ethics, not least of all because a politically partisan blog is treated as an academic source. Which is a bit suss.
But back to it.
Anyway, as a complete aside, there are some concerns over the research ethics, not least of all because a politically partisan blog is treated as an academic source. Which is a bit suss.
But back to it.
16. There's the blog, by the way.
17. So in these two we get to the thrust: teachers are angry.
Teachers are angry because they want to teach a certain way.
Teachers are angry because they want to teach a certain way.
18
Implication: teachers should teach the way they are told (child centred).
Implication: teacher's conditions are bad because of cuts, not because they are trying to teach in impossible ways.
Implication: teachers should be angry at the government for cuts more than anything.
Implication: teachers should teach the way they are told (child centred).
Implication: teacher's conditions are bad because of cuts, not because they are trying to teach in impossible ways.
Implication: teachers should be angry at the government for cuts more than anything.
19.
Final implication: government freeing up schools to teach how they want is in fact the government interfering in how kids learn.
Final implication: government freeing up schools to teach how they want is in fact the government interfering in how kids learn.
20.
I ain't saying there haven't been cuts.
There have. We have been cut to the bone and beyond.
I ain't saying that some politicians haven't annoyed me (they have).
But this is applying a blanket simplistic view to a complex wicked problem/set if events.
I ain't saying there haven't been cuts.
There have. We have been cut to the bone and beyond.
I ain't saying that some politicians haven't annoyed me (they have).
But this is applying a blanket simplistic view to a complex wicked problem/set if events.
21 And it implies that the teacher push back to take control of the classroom and be research led is, in fact, teachers being tricked and manipulated.
Which is a bit patronising.
I hate being patronised.
Which is a bit patronising.
I hate being patronised.
22. Science next. But, first, this:
Yeah, see that, rich people setting up a charity. The monsters.
Yeah, see that, rich people setting up a charity. The monsters.
23. Science:
Those monstrous trads thinking there is good research and bad research.
You know what?
If research isn't well put together and organised, it is bad research. Sometimes, rarely, life actually is binary.
Those monstrous trads thinking there is good research and bad research.
You know what?
If research isn't well put together and organised, it is bad research. Sometimes, rarely, life actually is binary.
24. Then we get into a conspiracy theory with evidence from a blog.
Yeah. Research.
Yeah. Research.
25. Then we get into the reading wars which have run for... a century? Let's skip past this. Other than to say that here we see Trads are obsessed with what works in the class room.
Also, funny to use "claiming" in regards to phonics having evidence.
Phonics works.
Also, funny to use "claiming" in regards to phonics having evidence.
Phonics works.
26. To use phrasing like "claiming" there is evidence for phonixs working is either poor wording or a deliberate attempt to undermine.
But I'm not a mind reader, so dunno which.
But I'm not a mind reader, so dunno which.
27. Speaking of mind reading, there's some going on here with regards to Trad's main drivers.
Also: interesting "liberal educational elite who have supposedly dominated educational discourse"
Also: interesting "liberal educational elite who have supposedly dominated educational discourse"
28.
I swear earlier on this paper was talking about how the New Right 2.6 is a push back against the dominant progressive narrative.
Oh. There it is.
I swear earlier on this paper was talking about how the New Right 2.6 is a push back against the dominant progressive narrative.
Oh. There it is.
29. Anyway.
As an article, there are some problems.
Is #edutwitter polarised?
Yup.
Does it get worse in the 6 weeks of hate?
Apparently so.
Does this article do anything to fix the problems?
No.
As an article, there are some problems.
Is #edutwitter polarised?
Yup.
Does it get worse in the 6 weeks of hate?
Apparently so.
Does this article do anything to fix the problems?
No.
30.
So, in summation:
It patronises teachers and attempts to explain away our autonomy. It sets up a conspiracy theory at its heart and imies that the Trad movement is AstroTurf.
It supplies no solid evidence of this.
So, in summation:
It patronises teachers and attempts to explain away our autonomy. It sets up a conspiracy theory at its heart and imies that the Trad movement is AstroTurf.
It supplies no solid evidence of this.
31. Closing point: I think we need to get away from the whole Trad/Prog nonsense.
There's loads and loads we agree on.
We are arguing over finer details.
I leave you with this
There's loads and loads we agree on.
We are arguing over finer details.
I leave you with this
