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Intrepid journeys in social studies curriculum development: Critical reflections and insights of a New Zealand educator

This article describes and discusses a self-inquiry into curriculum practice on the part of a New Zealand-based social studies educator. The approach used was adapted from Barber’s Gestalt...

| Year published: 2016 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Curriculum developments: Looking back, looking forward (Editorial)

| Year published: 2017 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

CM_2017_13_001.pdf | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Using online citizen science to develop students’ science capabilities

In 2018, a research project funded by New Zealand’s Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) explored the impact of online citizen science (OCS) projects on the science education of...

| Year published: 2020 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Book review: Teaching Secondary School Mathematics and Statistics: Evidence-based Practice, R. Averill and R. Harvey (Eds.)

In their introductory acknowledgements to this two-volume set, editors Robin Averill and Roger Harvey recall that the initial idea behind the books was to create a suitable text for secondary...

| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Conceptions of curriculum: A framework for understanding New Zealand’s curriculum framework and teachers’ opinions

Author(s): Gavin Brown

Five conceptions of curriculum (i.e., humanist, social reconstructionist, skills, technological, and academic) are described and used to analyse the New Zealand Curriculum Framework. It is argued...

| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Curriculum matters for all students? Understanding curriculum from the perspectives of disabled students and teacher aides

The experiences of disabled students and the teacher aides who support them in accessing the New Zealand curriculum form the focus of this article, which begins with an overview of the legislative...

| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Editorial: What matters in the curriculum?

This year, New Zealand’s Ministry of Education published a draft curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2006), as part of the consultative process associated with the development of the next school...

| Year published: 2006 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text:

CM2006_2_001.pdf | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Engaging curriculum for the middle years

Years 7–10 have now been identified as a distinct learning pathway within The New Zealand Curriculum. Penny Bishop and John Downes recognise this as an opportunity to address the declining engagement...

| Year published: 2008 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Engaging teachers in re-imagining curriculum

Author(s): Rosemary (Rose) Hipkins MNZM

This article uses a specific curriculum innovation—a focus on the nature of science—to illustrate the complex dynamics of curriculum change. Snapshots from the professional learning of two...

| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Curriculum Matters article

Epistemological voyaging: thinking about a Māori-centric curriculum

Many Māori are rethinking curriculum development, delivery, and assessment as part of an agenda of ethnovisioning, and a resistance to educational philosophies that legitimate dominant paradigms for...