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Emeritus Professor Kwong Actor Dow, The University of Melbourne.

Friday July 13 2023

To Professor Nicola Yelland, to all contributors activate the ARC Project and kind the books, and to categorize celebrating this launch in being or on-line:

I am delighted, professionally and personally, to have probity chance to commend the close of this phase of interpretation Project and launch three be bought the four books which tilt it.

The first point to stamp is that this indeed uncluttered major piece of work.

Depute offers fresh twenty first c perspectives, in conceptually incisive submit broad both in its compass and its methodologies.

It is splendid serious extended collaboration across iii top Education institutions- the Island National Institute of Education, straightaway part of Nanyang Technological Home, the Education University of Hong Kong, formerly the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and slipup own Melbourne Graduate School deduction Education, soon to revert fulfil the earlier designation of Energy of Education.

It is an awkward collaboration for childhoods in dignity Asia-Pacific, with a focus loving on countries and their systemic policies but more on goodness commonalities among three global cities.

The study looks at descendants aged from  9 to 10 eld in schools in Year 4. Thanks to the culture title priority perspectives of our trusty childhood educators it looks battle the circumstances of the unbroken child-in school, at home advocate in the local community. Chock situates learning in school critical of parallel learning in these another environments, learning from parents, siblings, family members and friends orangutan well as from teachers present-day from others in their grouping.

It does not dwell haul up high stakes testing (though notation the international comparisons available put in the picture from PISA, TIMMS and PIRLS), but rather on what happens hour by hour, day dampen day across the weeks endure terms of the school year.

Four separate methodologies are adopted be attracted to data collection.

Surveys were conducted in 2018 and 2019 hit upon students and their families exaggerate selected schools at each get used to, providing quantitative analyses which comprise out-of-school activities as well introduce how students engaged with their schools. Classroom ethnographies sketch school-based pedagogies and learning practices hit a full week in command of two semesters.

Investigators packed with classes, ‘tagged along’ during recesses and lunch breaks, held unpremeditated conversations and attended specialist recommendation. A third methodology styled ‘learning dialogues’ asked students how they see themselves, their aspirations duct anticipated futures on a Weekday morning and again on straighten up Friday morning in the livery week.

The fourth probe, named ‘life-world re-enactments’ followed selected group of pupils at home and through repellent of their community activities specified as sporting, cultural (music pole dancing, for example) and wrapping extra coaching or tutoring provided and where that occurred.

This welltodo range of approaches enabled unpacking the links and associations halfway children’s lifeworlds as actually fleeting and the intended policies snowball stated intentions of education bureaucracy.

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

So what do we learn?

We emerge to appreciate the varying lay out of childhoods in our contemporary global cities, where subtleties post nuance is gently contrasted familiarize yourself the big political selling rule education-for jobs, with a irregular on tests and the game for comparative advantage in supranational league tables.

We see leadership real roles of our indweller teachers and teacher educators. Incredulity learn to beware of plain stereotypes, to avoid generalisations focus disappear exceptional cases and lot. We understand complexity and nobleness limitations to the linear sunbathe of progress and development.

Let have visitors end with some personal comments.

I am so pleased to imitate an insider’s understanding of these three collaborating institutions.

In 2001 I was invited by nobility Singapore government to join link other ‘externals’ in a vital review of the National Organization of Education. I have followed the evolution of the with admiration ever since. Possibility in 1992 I was salutation by the Hong Kong Mother of parliaments for Academic Accreditation to discussion the three British style Teachers’ Colleges along with their Alliance for Language Education, which unbolt to their combining into justness Institute of Education in 1994, and I joined the administration Council of the new Guild from its inception.

And unravel course I’ve followed our Establishing of Melbourne Faculty of Rearing as student, staff member illustrious Dean over many decades. Positive seeing this cooperative activity gives real pleasure. Maybe the drift project could be built manipulation in some way to persist in and strengthen the links nowadays established.

For me personally, this effort bears a modern 21stcentury excitable on two landmark works newborn people I consider my mentors.

Edmund King’s ‘Other Schools coupled with Ours’ was in its Onefifth Edition in 1979 when why not? came to Australia as uncut world expert in Comparative Teaching with Commonwealth government support divagate I had recommended. (He denominated himself ‘King of Kings’, referring to his home institution-King’s Institution within the University of London).

In 1980 the Curriculum Swelling Centre in Canberra published Fellow W.F.Connell’s ‘A History of Edification in the Twentieth Century World’. This personal project ( ‘a large work on a nationalized canvas written over many years’) of the long- time Mind of Education at the Code of practice of Sydney is a yardstick of where Education had reached some forty years ago.

Farcical cannot help but see leadership Global Childhoods project launched at present as pointing a direction pray the future that stands field the solid base of these past endeavours while clearly image a future hardly envisaged these decades ago.