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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
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
Suggestions on how to analyse children's spelling and thus provide effective spelling instruction.
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In Europe and the UK there is lively debate about when children should start school and what kinds of curriculum and pedagogical approaches are most effective in the early years. Caroline Sharp of...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
The dynamic and integrated nature of environmental education and the broader concept of education for sustainability require not only the teaching and learning skills of the environmentally educated...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The term constructivism is used very widely and somewhat loosely in education. In this article I aim to clarify the term, which can be used in relation to two quite different theories: one related to...
| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The authors explore the notion of pedagogy in early childhood education, particularly the way it has become synonymous with provision of play-based programmes.
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio 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: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Early Childhood Folio article
The introduction of a revised national curriculum for New Zealand has precipitated a subject-wide project to align requirements for high-stakes secondary school assessments (the National Certificate...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article
An interpretive case study approach was used to investigate teachers’ understanding of the purpose and nature of social studies education and how teachers plan and develop their social studies...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article