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During the last decade, we have heard a good deal about the need for curriculum change in the secondary schools. The Educational Development Conference reports, the Johnson Report, and the McCombs...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In July 2015 Alfriston College—a Year 9–13 secondary school—was successful in winning funding from the Teacher Led Innovation Fund. Karyn White led the school’s inquiry and Rosemary Hipkins supported...
| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A series in which we ask a leading researcher to distil three key ideas from their work over the years.
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Student-centred curriculum integration is inclusive and future focused, enabling students to develop the competencies, values, knowledge, skills, and understandings espoused in The New Zealand...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
This article explores how the key competency thinking links with 21st century views of teaching and learning.
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Interviews with primary teachers revealed questions of control of operational curricula. Schools hold significant power over curricula through their organisation, planning, and assessment...
| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Constructive developmental theory examines and describes the way people grow and change over the course of their lives.
The author looks at New Zealand schools and discusses:
the special...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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...
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The introduction this year of the draft key competencies (paralleling the five strands of Te Whāriki) brings an exciting new development to the early childhood as well as the primary and secondary...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Who should decide what students learn at school? I’ve grown increasingly interested in this question since becoming an educational researcher, but writing this article also reminded me of something...
| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article