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If literacy learning needs to change for the 21st century, when students need to deal with new formats, such as blogs, sound clips and YouTube, what does this mean in practice in the classroom? This...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2010_2_002.pdf | Content type: Set article
This article considers the delicate positioning of social studies in a context of curriculum integration. The common primary school practice of integrating social studies as part of a wider inquiry...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article explores the shift from "essential skills" to "key competencies" in the school curriculum. Drawing on information gathered from teacher interviews and observations at a New Zealand...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article explores the notion of “relational pedagogy” in the Arts (drama, dance, music, and visual art) starting with the teacher–child relationship, peer relationships, and building communities...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: Relational_pedagogy_set2007_1_042.pdf | Content type: Set article
This article proposes that if we want students to care about and for the environment they need to develop an understanding of the "big picture"—that is, how the separate elements of a system interact...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As they did ordinary class work teacher and children were observed and every word recorded. From this mountain of data come startling and disturbing facts no one can ignore.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This paper explores differences between scientists’ experiences of science and the investigations that are a common type of learning activity in school science. The first half of the paper makes a...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In the last edition of Assessment News (Part 1 of this “quick guide”), we looked at how measurement error limits the precision of test scores. In this edition of Assessment News we examine how...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Australian and New Zealand research on poetry teaching is very scarce. Robin McConnell extends it by asking poets as well as teachers for their comments, and winds up with many clear...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2012_3_001.pdf | Content type: Set article