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ResearchThemesSchooling for the futurePublic understanding of education

Public understanding of education

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NZCER's Public understanding of education work

Recent research outputs for: Public understanding of education

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Supporting future-oriented learning and teaching - a New Zealand perspective
Rachel Bolstad and Jane Gilbert, with Sue McDowall, Ally Bull, Sally Boyd and Rosemary Hipkins
2012
Ministry of Education
Research report

This research report draws together findings from new data and more than 10 years of research on current practice and futures-thinking in education. It was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to support its programme of work to develop a vision of what future-oriented education could look like for New Zealand learners. The report has a foreword by the Minister of Education Hekia Parata and a message from Anthony Mackay, Co-Director of the Global Education Leaders’ Program.

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What role might research play in supporting future-oriented community engagement with education?
Rachel Bolstad
2012
NZCER
Working paper

This working paper was written as part of a 2010-11 project called Changing Minds, which was funded by NZCER's purchase agreement. The paper discusses NZCER’s research in the broad area of future-focused public and community engagement with education. It questions our role as researchers, asking whether we should be in the business of knowledge building, or using our research knowledge to actively support and sustain change. In the past we have done a bit of both, with varying degrees of success.

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From community engagement in education to public engagement with education
Ally Bull
2011
NZCER
Working paper

This paper discusses the relationship between schools and their communities. It explores the purpose of different school-community initiatives and discusses the case for a wider public engagement in education for the purpose of rethinking how schools meet the needs of all learners in the 21st century. It was written as part of a 2009-11 NZCER purchase agreement project called Families and communities engagement in education (FACE).

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Science and the general public in 2005
2005
AC Neilson and NZCER for MoRST
Research report

This survey investigated public attitudes and beliefs about science. 

The project built on previous research carried by ACNielson in consultation with NZCER. AC Nielson carried out a repeat of the 2002 survey:
Commonsense, trust and science: How patterns of beliefs and attitudes to science pose challenges for effective communication

We found a very similar pattern of responses, with the level of interest in any branch of science linked to perceptions of its usefulness.

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Catching the Knowledge Wave? The Knowledge Society: what does it mean for education?
Jane Gilbert
2003
NZCER Press
Journal article

Recently we have been hearing a great deal about something called the “knowledge society”. What is all this about, and why hasn’t there been much discussion of the educational implications of participation in this “new” society? Jane Gilbert explores some of the issues.
 

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The too hard basket? Closing the gap between parents and teachers
Cathy Wylie
1994
NZCER Press
Journal article

Listening to parents and teachers and then working on ways to close the gap between their widely differing expectations.