Surin McGrory Archives - Pushing The Edge

Students as Change-Makers with Christina Torres

Greg Curran — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 04:10:16 +0000

In this episode, empowering our students to be change-makers. We do so by disrupting the business as usual' stories of oppression.

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Challenging the Deficit Mindsets in Education

Greg Curran — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 23:28:59 +0000

Deficit Mindsets predominate in schools especially in relation to minority communities. How might we think outside such limiting parameters? They’re at the Top of all the Wrong Lists and Bottom of all the Right Lists. That’s the view of Maori people that Surin McGrory (a Pushing The Edge Podcast Guest) took away from her pre-service teacher education in New Zealand. As she began teaching Maori students though – in a Maori Immersion School – a different picture emerged. The reality of her students’ lives and capabilities were far more complex and positive than the deficit perspectives she encountered in her teacher education

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Shaking Up our Mindsets about Indigenous Students with Surin McGrory

Greg Curran — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 10:05:26 +0000

They're at the top of all the wrong lists and bottom of all the right lists. Or so our guest thought until she actually started teaching Maori students. This episode we're challenging the deficit or victim mindsets that prevail about minority communities.

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