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Interviews with primary teachers revealed questions of control of operational curricula. Schools hold significant power over curricula through their organisation, planning, and assessment...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Miles Barker analyses the development of The New Zealand Curriculum from the point of view of preservice teacher education. He presents 20 challenges that he believes the new curriculum poses for...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
As we know, a pessimist is someone who sees the glass of wine as half empty while the optimist is someone who sees it as half full. The pessimistic perspective with its emphasis on problems, often...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article explores how schools might develop a curriculum and pedagogy for the understanding of thinking, rather than the knowing of thinking. It suggests viewing the understanding of thinking...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
The introduction this year of the draft key competencies (paralleling the five strands of Te Whāriki) brings an exciting new development to the early childhood as well as the primary and secondary...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The introduction this year of the draft key competencies (paralleling the five strands of Te Whāriki) brings an exciting new development to the early childhood as well as the primary and secondary...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
The Cold War, and especially the launch of Sputnik, meant changes in curriculum development throughout the Western world. New Zealand was no exception. Our model, the Curriculum Development Unit (CDU...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
This article looks at the current organisation of senior secondary curriculum in New Zealand, and raises some key questions that will need to be considered as we seek to develop a senior secondary...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
Much is invested in, and expected of, a New Zealand curriculum. Following curriculum developments in the 1990s, a curriculum stocktake was carried out from 2000 to 2002, to investigate issues such as...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
Who should decide what students learn at school? I’ve grown increasingly interested in this question since becoming an educational researcher, but writing this article also reminded me of something...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article