Understanding the policy directed education environment in which health education as a subject sits in The New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) is akin to attempting a complex jigsaw puzzle without a picture to show how the pieces fit together. This article will provide an overview of the multiple education ...

This article describes and discusses a self-inquiry into curriculum practice on the part of a New Zealand-based social studies educator. The approach used was adapted from Barber’s Gestalt approach to holistic inquiry. It is a qualitative approach in which the self-aware practitioner-researcher and his (or her) interactions with others is at the centre of ...

It is 10 years since the introduction of the revised New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) (Ministry of Education, 2007), for teaching and learning in years 1–13 in English-medium schools. It is also 20 years since the introduction of Te Whāriki (Ministry of Education, 1996) and a curriculum review of the ...

Expressions of interest are sought for proposals to guest edit a special section of Curriculum Matters.

Expressions of interest are sought for proposals to guest edit a special section of Curriculum Matters.

A special section will address a specific theme in the curriculum field, which includes curriculum theory, policy and curriculum development, classroom practice and pedagogy, and discipline-based inquiry. It may focus on a particular ...

The editor of Curriculum Matters invites interested people to submit articles (essays, literature reviews, research reports, scholarship and critical comments) in the field of curriculum. The main audience groups for these articles are teachers, teacher educators, graduate students of education and curriculum theorists.

Articles should be sent for consideration electronically ...