This article analyses the integration of media and information literacy (MIL) within the curriculum, starting with the evolution of the terms “media”, “literacy”, and “citizenship” in 85 curricula implemented in 15 Latin American countries. In addition, the article examines the possibilities brought by this integration, according to the perspective of ...

In the context of significant reforms to the curriculum for New Zealand schools, this paper presents an early line of findings from an ongoing ethnographic multi-case study investigating New Zealand primary school teachers’ enactment of informal formative assessment. Data was gathered through observations, interviews and document collection in one Auckland ...

Drawing data (N = 625) from the 2004 Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning Version 4 database, this article explores how New Zealand Years 11–12 secondary students perceived the importance of learning to read and write in English and how those perceptions related to their reading attitudes and performance ...

This article reports on a line of findings that explores how New Zealand secondary teachers teach about inequality as part of the official New Zealand curriculum (NZC) in their respective teaching subjects. This second phase of the study is part of a wider project about how inequality is positioned within ...

Curriculum development is critically important to the educational enterprise, yet we lack insight into if and how ideal design and development practices are enacted in organizations that create curricular programs and resources intended for large-scale implementation. This study identified essential elements of curriculum development practices which, together, provide a framework ...

Using existing research on digital citizenship education (DCE), postdigital theory, and The New Zealand Curriculum (NZC), this article indicates how schools and teachers can make links between curriculum and a postdigital interpretation of DCE. Although the view of DCE as being cross-curricular presents opportunities to integrate DCE into multiple learning ...

Changes to the New Zealand Ministry of Education’s funding for access to specialist education services in museums and art galleries in Aotearoa New Zealand (enriching local curriculum) has created the potential for an increase in visits to these institutions by young learners, and particularly those in the early childhood education ...