Educational Decrees Numbers 12 & 35

[angie_white]

Yay for Pottermore! Apparently there's some gorgeous art there, which has generated pretty, non-movie related Harry Potter icons! At last!

And now for some serious business.

Ever since I started re-reading the Harry Potter-books again, something has been eating me: this is the first time I've read the books since I started studying at the university

Comments

[duskyblueskies]

I absolutely agree with you. I admit that I haven't though about the curriculum or syllabi - at least not in those terms, because I rarely think about them at all except in a "what to do when a teacher from a nearby school sends thirty pupils to your public library at the same time and doesn't give you a heads-up first"-way but that is so not the point" - but your second point is something that have been bugging me for a long time.

I wonder if pottermore will tell us more about the schooling before Hogwarts. Some obviously goes to school before whilst some are home schooled but they still start Hogwarts at eleven. Imagine if someone had decided that we don't needed to be taught anymore math, languages (native and foreign), biology/chemistry/physics, geography etc after third grade.

The thing is, even if the "Good side" in Harry Potter is pro-muggle, there is still a very common sentiment that muggles are lesser than. Something to be amused and bemused by: "Aww look at the cute little muggles with their electricity and escalators

[angie_white]

Well, since the Swedish schools have brand new policy documents since the start of this term, there has been a lot of talk about these things (even more than usual, that is) and when you repeatedly hear people analysing in detail why this word has been used here or why these terms are mentioned in that particular order, you kind of start grasping just how important they are. A key focus for the new Swedish steering documents have been how to best ensure a fair grading throughout the country. Obviously Hogwarts is the only wizarding school in Britain, so they don't have to worry about different schools giving higher or lower grades, but even so, it is really really difficult to grade something if you have any guidlines to go by. Even if you try really hard to be fair (which most teachers at Hogwarts don't) you will end up setting a grade based on your own opinion, which is always more or less biased. And the same goes for choosing the contents of your lessons. It will be based on what the teacher thinks is important and interesting,