Curriculum

Social justice and children’s rights

Professor Beth Blue Swadener and Dr Lacey Peters will explore how teachers can meaningfully engage with children’s voices, perspectives and experiences and incorporate a social justice approach into their teaching practice

Why variability matters when considering curriculum design and instructional materials

The variable nature of curriculum design in New Zealand schools.

The Challenge of Curriculum

The limited research about what makes an effective curriculum.

The impetus for the curriculum report

Why looking at curriculum design in schools is so important.

Knowledge, the curriculum, and reading; Why we need to do things differently in New Zealand

Why building children's general knowledge is essential to reading outcomes

Some initial thinking on National’s ‘return to basics’ education policy announcement

An attempt to unpack, with some degree of nuance, some thoughts on National's curriculum policy

Why is The Education Hub looking at curriculum design and instructional materials?

Why we're launching a survey to capture teachers' experiences of curriculum design and teaching materials

Play in schools: what we know, growing concerns, and a possible route forward

What does the research tell us about the role of play in schools

Knowledge, the curriculum and E. D. Hirsch’s latest book

What role does knowledge play in curriculum and the broader purpose of schooling?

What actually is happening in New Zealand schools?

Exploring whether there's enough empirical evidence demonstrating how New Zealand schools currently are implementing the Curriculum.

Developing a more nuanced understanding of social emotional learning and its role in schools

Key things for teachers and schools to think about when exploring social emotional learning

Muttonbirds and seven continents; the place of knowledge in the New Zealand Curriculum

Exploring issues and questions about the role of knowledge in the New Zealand Curriculum

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