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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
Recently, I had the opportunity to listen to Michael F. D. Young, whose book Knowledge and Power (1971) was very influential on my early thinking about curriculum. Michael Young is an emeritus...
| Year published: 2010 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: CM2010_6_001.pdf | 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 call for citizenship education as a compulsory part of the curriculum has met with a varied response worldwide. While everyone would espouse the ideals of ensuring our young people grow up to...
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article
Educational change in New Zealand has been a hot topic in 2012. We have faced cutbacks, closures, charter schools and league tables, not to mention the ‘rejuvenation and consolidation...
| Year published: 2012 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: CM2012_8_1.pdf | Content type: Curriculum Matters article