{"title":"A matter of choice: Controversial histories, citizenship, and the challenge of a high-autonomy curriculum","authors":"M. Sheehan","doi":"10.18296/CM.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18296/CM.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37874,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Matters","volume":"13 1","pages":"103-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44990297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joining in the dance: What can be learned from high self-efficacy teachers about teaching dance?","authors":"Suzanne Renner,David Bell","doi":"10.18296/cm.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18296/cm.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37874,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Matters","volume":"419 1","pages":"46-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138506230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing parental involvement in student learning","authors":"Robin Averill, Abby Metson, Susan Bailey","doi":"10.18296/cm.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18296/cm.0016","url":null,"abstract":"There is much international evidence that parental involvement in children’s learning can positively influence achievement. New Zealand policy expects schools to nurture such involvement, particularly in relation to Máori and Pasifika learners. Despite policy imperatives and valuable professional development projects, such involvement has proved challenging to embed within many English-medium school settings. We examined policy, theoretical, and research literature to identify key supports and barriers to establishing strong parental involvement in children’s learning, with a particular focus on the context of mathematics. A review of literature shows that parental involvement can be nurtured by school-wide commitment, learning-focused parent–teacher partnerships, effective communication, purposeful home-based learning, and shared home and school decision making. However, establishing sustained parental involvement in learning is challenging, with time constraints, language and cultural differences, and varied expectations posing barriers. Further guidance, support, and New Zealand-based research are needed to ensure such involvement can be maximised, including investigation into the effects of such involvement on achievement, affect, and well-being, particularly in relation to Máori and Pasifika students in English-medium settings.","PeriodicalId":37874,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Matters","volume":"420 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138506229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influences on self-worth: Students’ and teachers’ perspectives","authors":"Jackie Cowan, Ian Culpan","doi":"10.18296/cm.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18296/cm.0014","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports on aspects of an interpretative qualitative single case study that investigated teachers’ and students’ understanding of how self-worth is influenced in the teaching and learning environment. Findings indicate that important determinants in the development of self-worth include personal teacher qualities such as humour, justice (fairness) and trust; teaching strategies associated with meeting individual needs; establishing safe environments and providing leadership opportunities for students; and positive teacher/student relationships. The article concludes by highlighting how the influences on the development of self-worth can be enhanced through the coalescing of reciprocal relationships and critical reflection.","PeriodicalId":37874,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Matters","volume":"432 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138506222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: Curriculum research for the public good","authors":"Jane Abbiss","doi":"10.18296/cm.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18296/cm.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37874,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Matters","volume":"219 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138543427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An equitable curriculum for a digital age","authors":"Louise Starkey","doi":"10.18296/cm.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18296/cm.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37874,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Matters","volume":"403 1","pages":"29-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138506232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The future just happened: Lessons for 21st-century learning from the secondary school music classroom","authors":"Graham McPhail","doi":"10.18296/cm.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18296/cm.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37874,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Matters","volume":"429 1","pages":"8-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138506223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biomechanics, the health and physical education curriculum and Confucius? Considerations for teaching, learning and assessment","authors":"Glenn Fyall","doi":"10.18296/cm.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18296/cm.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37874,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Matters","volume":"267 1 1","pages":"82-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138543421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge and the Curriculum","authors":"Carolyn Mutch","doi":"10.4324/9780203969953-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203969953-12","url":null,"abstract":"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 professor at the University of London and was in New Zealand to give the prestigious Hood lecture at The University of Auckland. He began his talk, titled \"Curriculum for a knowledge society: Lessons from the sociology of knowledge\", with this challenge: Much is written in current educational policies about preparing students for a knowledge society and the important role education has to play. However, these policies say very little about the question of knowledge itself. What is it we want young people to know? More worrying than this, many of these policies almost systematically neglect or marginalise the question of knowledge ... (1) Professor Young went on to distinguish between a traditional view of a subject-based curriculum and his view of a reconceptualised curriculum. The former, he claimed, is something that students comply with, and the latter is something that students acquire by engagement. His argument against the current curriculum reforms in the United Kingdom is based on his concern about the notion of viewing curriculum as an instrument for \"motivating students\". He contends that this (a) misunderstands what curriculum can do and (b) confuses curriculum with pedagogy. Curriculum he defines as the knowledge that a country agrees is important for all students to have access to, and pedagogy as the activities that teachers use to motivate students and enable them to engage with concepts stipulated by the curriculum. While I didn't always agree with aspects of Professor Young's argument as it developed in his lecture, he did put up challenges that were worthy of consideration. It made me reflect on the body of knowledge that we in New Zealand consider is essential for our learners to engage with. What and whose knowledge is important? Who chooses this knowledge and with what authority? Professor Young went on to argue that the curriculum needs to be seen as an end in itself, that is, for the intellectual development of students, not as a means, for example, of motivating disaffected students or solving social problems. This intellectual development is concept-based rather than content-based, but there must be content on which to build this conceptual understanding. The conceptual knowledge base, he claims, comes from specialist fields developed by scholars and communities of researchers over time. The claim he made that I found most challenging was this: \"The curriculum should exclude the everyday knowledge of students, whereas it is a resource for the pedagogic work of teachers.\" He continued, \"Students do not come to school to learn what they already know.\" Professor Young was very clear in his mind where the boundary lay between curriculum and pedagogy, between an agreed intellectual knowledge base and the links that teachers make to stude","PeriodicalId":37874,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Matters","volume":"1 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70601140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}