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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 What are the features of a positive work environment for early career teachers? This article examines this question through interviews with secondary school early career science teachers. Findings...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The first year of teaching is a critical stage in a teacher's professional life. Many beginning teachers are employed in short-term positions, but we know very little about how employment status...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article critiques a recent professional development course for history teachers that explored how students could use memorials and heritage sites to engage with the concept of significance and...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
set2011_2_026.pdf | Content type: Set article This article explores how two pairs of secondary content teachers drew on their knowledge of language and second-language acquisition to plan and implement a language-focused lesson sequence in their...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The official New Zealand curriculum as it pertains to social sciences embodies tensions between newer transformative and older transmissive agendas for education, and in its disciplinary divisions....
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article How can teachers support students' additive thinking? This article focuses on the study of a lesson designed to teach the equal additions strategy for subtraction, in which many teachers, despite...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article There are many children who have interpersonal difficulties at school which affect their enjoyment of and achievement in learning. The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) recognises...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article Through the use of fictionalisation, a narrative inquiry tool that allows for the “trying on” of future possibilities, I survey the state of the US curriculum field in the aftermath of Schwab’s “...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article