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We are, it seems, constantly being told that the main goal of education should be enabling students to build, rather than to “reproduce”, knowledge; and that knowledge building is...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Future-oriented theorists argue that if we want students to be future builders, we need to provide them with opportunities to do things with existing knowledge, rather than just reproduce...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
It has been suggested that focusing on the metacognitive skills secondary students need to make informed decisions about literacy challenges they encounter is a central element in raising literacy...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Many 5- and 6-year-old students in low socioeconomic schools have difficulty expressing ideas fluently and coherently in English, which impacts on their ability to participate fully in the classroom...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
After three years of schooling, some primary students are behind expected levels for spelling achievement. This study investigated students’ own explanations of their developing understandings about...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Readers need to focus their attention on detail if they are to engage with big ideas. When a reader interprets details they produce knowledge; the production of knowledge allows them to gain insight...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
When education forsakes the middle for the ends or the beginnings, it is deadly. (Grumet, 1995, p. 17)
In her response to the question of “what is basic” to education, Madeleine Grumet argues that...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
The literary curriculum is not the literacy curriculum. The literary curriculum encompasses aspects of the taught curriculum, the assessed curriculum, and the processes of curriculum development and...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
This article offers a new look at students' comprehension of poetry. Its findings will be of particular interest to English teachers and teachers working with students to extend their...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2006_2_007_0.pdf | Content type: Set article
The article discusses the varied and changing concepts of literacy and English. It is argued that these changes have implications for the place of literacy in the New Zealand curriculum. Literacy and...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article