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How might social-studies teachers enact critical forms of citizenship education in classrooms and what pedagogies support this? This question is explored in relation to literature about...
| Year published: 2016 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The changing media landscape of the Internet has created a diverse environment for learning about global and national current events. Keeping up with the news is difficult and can result in...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
This study explored whether using process drama to teach social studies would engage Year 10 Pasifika boys at a secondary school in Auckland. The author describes how, while in role, students used...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | 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
Since 1995, New Zealand’s National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP) has been responsible for the national assessment of students’ achievement in each of the learning areas in the curriculum. One...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Assessment Matters article
What could we be looking for in student work when it comes to summative assessment? This article explores some of the challenges related to assessment in social studies. It then traces some of the...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A reflection on the journey taken by members of a team of social studies educators to identify the learning and teaching environments that contribute to quality learning in social studies.
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Nineteen broad areas of essential learning about New Zealand society are identified in the social studies curriculum. The authors consider what aspects of these are assessed in the 2001 NEMP...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There is a common perception in Australian schools that social studies is one of the learning areas least liked by students. This research looked at the attitudes of students at primary schools, and...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Helping children become less prejudiced. That is one of our airns as teachers. In Social Studies prejudice often shows up as, 'My
culture, my ways, are right and other cultures, other ways not like...
| Year published: 1987 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article