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September-October 2015: My Reading

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on October 31, 2015

But only literature can put you in touch with another human spirit, as a whole, with all its weaknesses and grandeurs, its limitations, its pettinesses, […]

Posted in Featured, Travel | Tagged Arthur Koestler, Cixin Liu, Clive James, history, Marlon James, memory, Michel Houellebecq, Pierre Nora, reading in 2015, scifi, Tim Winton | 3 Comments

March 2015: My Reading

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on March 29, 2015

“Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind.” Liu Cixin March has been an exciting month of science fiction reading and some progress has […]

Posted in Education, Popular culture, Professional development | Tagged Chinese, Cixin Liu, Dante, Divine Comedy, essay, literature, novels, Quarterly Essay, reading, reading in 2015, scifi, translation | 1 Comment

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Darcy Moore

@Darcy1968

Just found an edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four with a critical introduction and really useful annotations by Bernard Crick, Clarendon Press, 1984. John Rodden, in his new book (2020) on #Orwell’s reception and reputation, recommends it as under-appreciated and hard to find. pic.twitter.com/3679…

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“The whole system is a catastophe” says @PiccoliMp re: #Naplan which was predicted in 2009 by educational experts but political expediency won the day and our system lost out. #SMHSchools

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An unusually hypercritical message about our edu-systems from academics, unionists & educrats today. How will the same people, who have been i/c across the plethora of edu-bodies for 20 years, change their thinking to build a properly functioning education system? #SMHSchools

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The biggest drop in #PISA is the top quartile says @mscott and once again the question begs, is that a problem created by our inherently managerial approach to curriculum? #SMHSchools

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How important is it to reflect on the impact of managerial outcomes based syllabi in the decline @GMastersACER highlights in the performance of Australian 15 year olds over the last 15 yrs? Does a clear parallel with this model of curriculum and lower lit/num emerge? #SMHSchools

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Who will be talking about this at the #SMHSchools tomorrow? education.nsw.gov.au…

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