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The New Zealand Government has announced a change package in response to a recent review of the National Certificates of Educational Achievement (NCEA). In this article Charles Darr, a chief...
| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: Set 2019_3_057.pdf | Content type: Set article
Inspired by my research into the government-sponsored Curriculum Review Committee of the mid-1980s, this article considers the possibilities of the Treaty of Waitangi as a “warm idea” for educators....
| Year published: 2019 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The growing demand for more extensive use of discussion in secondary and higher education reflects something deeper than a desire for trendy informality in education. Probably, the most important...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Instead of burdening his memory with a mass of facts and figures the student of tomorrow will store these in his computer and will be free to analyse the whole, make useful comparisons and draw...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing. Projecting an absolute ignorance...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Do teachers talk too much? I'm afraid we do. Much too much. From the time we enter the school in the morning till we leave it at night, we hardly stop talking. We only realize how much we talk when...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Modern education has given little place to the lecture in the high school. Some declare that it has no place in the college or university, its time-honored strongholds. Few textbooks on secondary...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Usually the major objective of discussion methods is to teach students to think. To achieve this the tutor must achieve a number of subsidiary objectives to get the discussion group going. Discussion...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This same demand for both guidance and freedom appears in comments on the difference between teaching methods in the sixth form and in the main school, and on which methods were found most...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In this book we have emphasised again and again the need to help children to develop open minds, to think clearly, critically, objectively, and to reflect upon their conclusions, changing them...
| Year published: 1974 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article