Implementing New Zealand Curriculum

What are the challenges for schools in creating effective change, and what are the factors that support its success?  This is a description of how four secondary schools and a school cluster implemented locally-designed curriculum innovations.

This article, the fourth of a series about student research activities, examines the underlying reasons why it is important for students to have rich opportunities to carry out research-related activities. The author discusses the nature of research as enquiry, identifies some common themes in advocacy for future-focused education, and links them to the key competencies currently being introduced into the New Zealand curriculum.

This article, the third in a series about carrying out research as a student learning activity, discusses how research relates to context—in this case, history.

The challenge is to help students experience and understand research as the basis for new knowledge construction in any discipline area.