Repository logo
 

Disrupting Aotearoa New Zealand’s Curricular Consensus: From ‘World-Leading’ Curriculum to Curriculum Refresh 2007–2021

cam.issuedOnline2022-01-06
dc.contributor.authorHughson, Taylor Alexander
dc.contributor.orcidHughson, Taylor Alexander [0000-0002-3088-8317]
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-29T19:50:01Z
dc.date.available2022-06-29T19:50:01Z
dc.date.issued2022-06
dc.date.submitted2021-09-01
dc.date.updated2022-06-29T19:50:01Z
dc.description.abstract<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This article seeks to explain how Aotearoa New Zealand moved from a consensus that the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) should grant a high degree of autonomy to teachers, to an emerging view that it ought to be more prescriptive about content. To do this, it takes an assemblage approach to policy analysis, understanding policies as constantly evolving ‘bundles’ of divergent components temporarily woven together. The article first explores the complex intermingling of Third Way priorities, knowledge economy discourses, educational progressivism and narratives of ‘harmonious’ biculturalism which constitute the 2007 NZC. It then explores the sustained critique of the NZC from the 2015 parliamentary petition calling for compulsory teaching of the New Zealand Wars, up to the government’s 2021 ‘curriculum refresh’ announcement. It is argued that this ‘refresh’ moves to reassemble the NZC so that it accommodates a series of demands made of it in recent years, including demands the curriculum take a more active role in redressing the impact of colonisation, and demands from both business-aligned groups and academics that the curriculum become more ‘knowledge-led’.</jats:p>
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.86011
dc.identifier.eissn2199-4714
dc.identifier.issn0028-8276
dc.identifier.others40841-021-00238-9
dc.identifier.other238
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/338598
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC
dc.publisher.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40841-021-00238-9
dc.subject3901 Curriculum and Pedagogy
dc.subject3902 Education Policy, Sociology and Philosophy
dc.subject3903 Education Systems
dc.subject39 Education
dc.titleDisrupting Aotearoa New Zealand’s Curricular Consensus: From ‘World-Leading’ Curriculum to Curriculum Refresh 2007–2021
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-12-23
prism.endingPage67
prism.issueIdentifier1
prism.publicationNameNew Zealand Journal of Educational Studies
prism.startingPage53
prism.volume57
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
rioxxterms.versionVoR
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1007/s40841-021-00238-9

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
40841_2021_Article_238_nlm.xml
Size:
80.71 KB
Format:
Extensible Markup Language
Description:
Bibliographic metadata
Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
40841_2021_Article_238.pdf
Size:
617.49 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Published version
Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/