New Zealand Unleashed- well worth a read
New Zealand Unleashed by Steven Carden is a book that is continuing to make we think. I haven’t finished it yet but I just wanted to share with you the value in it, for everyone, and especially to us as educators in New Zealand.
Just as The World is Flat and Growing up Digital rocked the US so this book should be a ’sit up and listen’ kinda thing for New Zealand. Whether we will or not is another matter, but we should.
New Zealand is in a locality and has a population situation that makes innovation and change possible, with relative ease as societies go. Let’s make our educational system relevent for our students who are entering a global economy from a very unique direction.
Let’s stop apologising, play to our strengths and make a real difference.
So would you recommend this as a good read for someone outside of NZ?
To be honest I had not thought about the audience outside New Zealand. I guess the central theme of the book: There are certain traits that a successful society exhibits would translate anywhere on any level. I know what I’ve taken from the book is two fold.
1. New Zealands position in the global economy
2. The importance of being ready for change in our education system, actively seeking it out and how that mindset would go some way toward education reform in this country.
Thinking about the movement toward classroom2.0 and the surrounding issues of that, sure the book has a lot to offer.
Thanks Mel for making me think some more…