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>Some context; the Spectator is now far-right wing Meanwhile: >In New Zealand the school chemistry and biology syllabus has been decolonised and now invokes t
by Phiwise_ 4y ago
>Some context; the Spectator is now far-right wing
Meanwhile:
>In New Zealand the school chemistry and biology syllabus has been decolonised and now invokes the concept of mauri, or life force, to give the atomic theory a new spiritual dimension. This is because of a central diktat that Maori knowledge must be given equal status to other forms of knowledge, including science. Activists also have statistics in their sights. One academic review of school statistics textbooks ‘with a theoretical framework of queer theory and critical mathematics’ notes disapprovingly that ‘pregnancy was used frequently in problems involving females/women.’
>John Armstrong @johnarmstrong5 ; Reader in Financial Mathematics at King's College London. Also interested in academic freedom and a more sane approach to EDI
You didn't read the article, did you? Is that what "far-right" means now? Things and subject matter experts one's too dismissive to look into?