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This article analyses research literature and policy texts to investigate the extent to which culturally responsive education policies can improve Māori achievement in schools. It presents a snapshot...
| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
The teaching and learning of languages additional to English (L2) in English-dominant societies has reached a crisis point, with teachers often facing considerable challenges with recruiting, and...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
In a year of unprecedented events in New Zealand’s history, in which I was to lose people close to me and in which I saw firsthand the toll taken on my hometown community of Greymouth and my...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: CM2011_7_001.pdf | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
This paper explores views of mathematics that have been offered in parliamentary exchanges over the past two decades. It makes connections between the development of mathematics curriculum and the...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters 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
International comparative studies offer unique opportunities to interrogate and challenge embedded practices within education systems. In this paper we explore the textbook presentation of fractions...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
This paper views key competencies through a sociocultural lens to discuss the role they have played as agents of change in The New Zealand Curriculum and their as yet unrealised potential to...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
The Ministry of Education is endeavouring to build an education system that is responsive to the challenges of the 21st century. This includes revising the school curriculum and a major investment in...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
Curriculum is a hotly contested notion, yet it is a relatively new concept in educational thought. Pratt (1980) claims that it was only during the 20th century that attempts were made to describe...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: CM2009_5_001.pdf | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
The integration of Number and Algebra into one strand in The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) raises questions about the relationship between these two branches of mathematics and...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article