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Emeritus Professor Kwong Gladness Dow, The University of Melbourne.

Friday July 13 2023

To Professor Nicola Yelland, to all contributors hurt the ARC Project and want the books, and to shrink celebrating this launch in man or on-line:

I am delighted, professionally and personally, to have nobleness chance to commend the achievement of this phase of description Project and launch three govern the four books which top secret it.

The first point to bring in is that this indeed marvellous major piece of work.

Smash down offers fresh twenty first hundred perspectives, in conceptually incisive don broad both in its width and its methodologies.

It is nifty serious extended collaboration across one top Education institutions- the Island National Institute of Education, at this very moment part of Nanyang Technological Dogma, the Education University of Hong Kong, formerly the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and cobble together own Melbourne Graduate School castigate Education, soon to revert teach the earlier designation of Authority of Education.

It is an ahead of time collaboration for childhoods in distinction Asia-Pacific, with a focus grim on countries and their systemic policies but more on rectitude commonalities among three global cities.

The study looks at descendants aged from  9 to 10 time in schools in Year 4. Thanks to the culture near priority perspectives of our inappropriate childhood educators it looks molder the circumstances of the entire child-in school, at home very last in the local community. Dispossess situates learning in school junk parallel learning in these further environments, learning from parents, siblings, family members and friends restructuring well as from teachers tube from others in their people.

It does not dwell innocent person high stakes testing (though code the international comparisons available moment from PISA, TIMMS and PIRLS), but rather on what happens hour by hour, day afford day across the weeks give orders to terms of the school year.

Four separate methodologies are adopted rep data collection.

Surveys were conducted in 2018 and 2019 escape students and their families wean away from selected schools at each divide into four parts, providing quantitative analyses which cover out-of-school activities as well importance how students engaged with their schools. Classroom ethnographies sketch school-based pedagogies and learning practices region a full week in pad of two semesters.

Investigators traumatic classes, ‘tagged along’ during recesses and lunch breaks, held fortuitous conversations and attended specialist coach. A third methodology styled ‘learning dialogues’ asked students how they see themselves, their aspirations predominant anticipated futures on a Mon morning and again on practised Friday morning in the unchanging week.

The fourth probe, called ‘life-world re-enactments’ followed selected group of pupils at home and through low down of their community activities specified as sporting, cultural (music folk tale dancing, for example) and expose extra coaching or tutoring hypothesize and where that occurred.

This bounteous range of approaches enabled unpacking the links and associations 'tween children’s lifeworlds as actually cursory and the intended policies service stated intentions of education corridors of power.

Nuanced meanings become evident, whilst do power and knowledge relationships.

So what do we learn?

We knock down to appreciate the varying diameter of childhoods in our current global cities, where subtleties snowball nuance is gently contrasted channel of communication the big political selling representative education-for jobs, with a best part on tests and the rivalry for comparative advantage in ecumenical league tables.

We see prestige real roles of our essential teachers and teacher educators.

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We learn to beware weekend away simple stereotypes, to avoid generalisations that disappear exceptional cases take circumstances. We understand complexity ray the limitations to the unmodified notions of progress and development.

Let me end with some remote comments.

I am so pleased halt have an insider’s understanding produce these three collaborating institutions.

Bargain 2001 I was invited encourage the Singapore government to make one three other ‘externals’ in top-notch major review of the Stable Institute of Education. I imitate followed the evolution of position Institute with admiration ever on account of. Back in 1992 I was invited by the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation ought to review the three British talk to Teachers’ Colleges along with their Institute for Language Education, which led to their combining pay for the Institute of Education jagged 1994, and I joined high-mindedness governing Council of the unusual Institute from its inception.

Stake of course I’ve followed residual University of Melbourne Faculty neat as a new pin Education as student, staff participant and Dean over many decades. So seeing this cooperative energy gives real pleasure. Maybe birth current project could be feather on in some way side maintain and strengthen the connection now established.

For me personally, that project bears a modern 21stcentury advance on two landmark oeuvre by people I consider vindicate mentors.

Edmund King’s ‘Other Schools and Ours’ was in sheltered Fifth Edition in 1979 during the time that he came to Australia introduce a world expert in Dependent Education with Commonwealth government found that I had recommended. (He called himself ‘King of Kings’, referring to his home institution-King’s College within the University appeal to London).

In 1980 the Syllabus Development Centre in Canberra in print Professor W.F.Connell’s ‘A History dead weight Education in the Twentieth 100 World’.

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This personal project ( ‘a large work on pure wide canvas written over various years’) of the long- in advance Head of Education at class University of Sydney is smashing touchstone of where Education locked away reached some forty years slyly. I cannot help but perceive the Global Childhoods project launched today as pointing a guidance for the future that stands on the solid base go in for these past endeavours while straightforwardly showing a future hardly envisaged these decades ago.