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In this article Jim Neyland responds to Dennis Sumara and Brent Davis in 2007’s Curriculum Matters, revealing how the writings of 20th century thinkers such as Niebuhr, Macquarrie, Korzybski, Fromm,...

A series in which we ask a leading researcher to distil three key ideas from their work over the years.


It’s a great pleasure for me to launch The Hidden Lives of Learners, a book which distils and clearly expresses the fruits of Professor Graham Nuthall’s outstanding academic career.
Over half a...

As we know, a pessimist is someone who sees the glass of wine as half empty while the optimist is someone who sees it as half full. The pessimistic perspective with its emphasis on problems, often...

This year the New Zealand School Journal has celebrated its 100th birthday. In this time it has
provided a rich mix of text and image created for New Zealand children by many talented artists
and...

A series in which we ask a leading researcher to distil three key ideas from their work over the years.

When education forsakes the middle for the ends or the beginnings, it is deadly. (Grumet, 1995, p. 17)
In her response to the question of “what is basic” to education, Madeleine Grumet argues that...

If one were to name one year as the year that assessment was invented, that year would be 1980. This proposition is not fully proven here, but a plausible argument is presented in its defence.

Research Information for Teachers, known as set, has become an iconic symbol of NZCER’s long-term services. It implements one of its key statutory obligations, it continues the priorities inherent in...

Once upon a time the animals decided they must do something decisive if they were ever to solve the problems created by the growing complexity of their society. They set up a working party and, in...

