Schooling for the future
NZCER's Schooling for the future work
Schooling for the future has the following subthemes:
Research projects for: Schooling for the future
| Project | Project leader(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Back to the future - book | Jane Gilbert, Rachel Bolstad |
This project involves the initial stages of writing a book looking at how ideas from the theoretical literature on 21st century schooling are taken up in real schools. Its aim is to synthesise our past (theoretical) work on 21st century schools with our more recent - and ongoing - work on teacher thinking and professional learning, and to present this in ways that are accessible and useful for practitioners. |
| Back to the future - teachers and change | Jane Gilbert |
Back to the future - teachers and change aims to scope and pilot a small action research project involving NZCER researchers working with a cluster of teachers to explore the development of ‘21st century’ science teaching. |
| Curriculum support for science | Rosemary Hipkins | |
| e-Learning in science | Graeme Cosslett | |
| Engagement with subject English for the 21st century | Sue McDowall |
combines and builds on the now considerable body of NZCER work on language and literacy, key competencies and The New Zealand Curriculum document, and 21st century learning. |
| Future focussed issues in education | Jane Gilbert, Rachel Bolstad |
This project aims to examine opportunities and dilemmas associated with future focussed issues in New Zealand education, building on a body of work that NZCER has already undertaken in areas relevant to the “future focus” principle in the New Zealand Curriculum. |
| Science community engagement | Ally Bull, Rachel Bolstad |
In this project we aim to identify the range and variety of ways in which teachers and students interact with people and groups from the science community to support students’ learning and engagement with science. Te Wāhanga is involved in exploring the types of connections/partnerships that exist between Māori students in English Medium schools and the science community. |
| Science in the curriculum | Ally Bull | |
| Shifting Thinking | Rachel Bolstad |
The Shifting to 21st Century Thinking project has been established by a group of researchers and thinkers within NZCER to think deeply about education in the 21st century, and what needs to change. |
| Teachers Work | Ally Bull |
This programme of work consists of two linked projects designed to investigate the nature and demands of teaching in the 21st Century, and to look at how people educated to work in 20th Century schools can be supported to meet the needs of 21st Century learners. |







