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This article argues that empathy has an important place in the history classroom and can contribute to the aims of The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007). The article examines the...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
Visual arts education has long enjoyed a place in the New Zealand curriculum. Institutional endorsement of the value of visual arts learning for all children has maintained its status as a core...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
Curriculum is a hotly contested notion, yet it is a relatively new concept in educational thought. Pratt (1980) claims that it was only during the 20th century that attempts were made to describe...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: CM2009_5_001.pdf | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
ITE programmes are currently in transition, facing changes in society and societal expectations, changing concepts about knowledge and its uses, changing roles for teachers and changes to teaching...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
The integration of Number and Algebra into one strand in The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) raises questions about the relationship between these two branches of mathematics and...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
It is likely that 16 percent of the New Zealand population will be Asian by 2026. Asian secondary school students desire more contact with local students; local students are unfamiliar with Asia....
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
The study reported in this article trialled the effectiveness of cases as a teacher-education tool with a class of preservice history teachers. The collaborative critical analyses of cases, in a...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
This article aims to prompt discussion about thinking in the school curriculum. It begins with a brief exploration of thinking, in which the difficulty of defining and classifying thinking is...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
Gregor Fountain analyses how, since the 1990s, changes to the curriculum and the development of NCEA have impacted on the teaching of history in New Zealand schools. He argues that the inclusion of...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
Jane McChesney and Bronwen Cowie explore the key competencies of thinking and using language, symbols, and text in terms of Mathematics and Statistics, Science, and Technology. What do these...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article